Re: Need for a piecepack Design Workshop?

["Matt Worden" <Brykovian@...>]

Just saw your reply/questions, Tim ... see my responses below ... :-)

> Would someone have to be in charge of the sign up sheet?  And who 
> would love to take on that job? 

I think it would be best to have someone administrate the sign-up 
sheet, mainly to keep it organized.  It could be as simple as having 
a "Workshop Schedule" file in the Files section which the admin would 
maintain, and then the admin would start an appropriate post/thread 
each Monday for the game of the week.

I'd be fine playing the role of "schedule admin" if no one else cared 
to do it.

> Would the posts about the game of the week be posted here or on a 
> new e-group? I think here would be best IMHO. But I had to put that 
> question out there.

I think they would be best handled within this Yahoo Group.  A good 
community of piecepackers are already gathered here, and newcomers 
would see games being discussed in detail.

> Currently I think there are about a dozen games in the file 
section. 
> I know one of the hardest thing is getting games tested that are 
> posted here [...] Maybe having a test game 
> of the week will help concentrate that effort to one game. 

That's exactly why I posted the suggestion. ;-)  I see games being 
submitted, but don't usually do much more than maybe read over the 
rules.  If there was an organized thread each week exploring a game, 
I would be inclined to join in the discussion ...

> Has it been successful on the BDGF?

Quite.  As a designer who participates in that workshop, I no only 
received valuable feedback about my own game, but I've learned a lot 
from seeing other peoples' designs and watching the critiques of 
those as well.

-Matt