NELCO this weekend

[jducoeur]

Reminder for those interested in LARP and/or Querki -- this weekend, at the Radisson Chelmsford (the usual site of Intercon), is NELCO: the New England LARP Conference. I expect it to be a lot of fun: there is going to be a full schedule of panels, a Build Your Own Game, and generally lots of folks talking about the writing and playing of LARP.

I've got several panels on Saturday, including a one-hour sneak peek at Querki at 1pm. This is going to be a high-danger event: I'm going to do a demo of building a Space on the fly, with very little pre-canned, so it's pretty certain that *something* will go wrong. But I'd love to have folks come by, ask questions, and participate in the demo. (I'll be encouraging audience members to help me design a Space for building a LARP -- with any luck, it'll be a fun exercise.)

So if you're free, come on by, at least for Saturday. It promises to be an interesting day...

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[goldsquare.livejournal.com]

I once went to a demo of something, and the demonstrator said something like "forgive me: I hope this demo goes smoothly. But demo's are usually done by sales and marketing - masters of indirection. I'm just a guy who builds useful things. This is going to go however it is going to go".

[jducoeur]

Yeah, that's more or less what this is going to be: a realistic, pre-Alpha, warts-and-all demo of using Querki in its earliest and most primitive state.

Mind, I believe that, even now, it's already pretty much the easiest way to deal with a lot of problems: if your requirements are fairly simple (and most LARPs really aren't that demanding in terms of features), Querki's almost as easy to use as a wiki and *much* more powerful in many ways. But I'm painfully conscious of the fact that it's only about 10% of where I want it to be, and not very "pretty" for demo'ing yet...