Brainstorming: Gaming Panels

[jducoeur]

I've just found myself as the Gaming Track Manager for next year's Arisia, which means I need to assemble a roster of panels, right quick. I have a moderate pile of suggestions so far, but they're of varying quality, and a bit "clumpy" in terms of subjects, so I'd like more ideas for the mix.

My friends have lots of knowledge of the subject, so: here's a request for a little quick brainstorming of suggestions for panels on the subject of Games, broadly defined -- this includes Board/Card Games, Videogames, Tabletop and Live-Action RPG, Game Culture, etc.

Please focus on topics you would like to attend or talk about, not just notions for their own sake. Not all suggestions will be used, but all are welcomed. "Yes, and" comments about other peoples' suggestions are okay, but please don't shoot down other peoples' ideas. Diversity of viewpoints highly encouraged. Feel free to email or direct-message me if you would prefer to make a suggestion privately.

Thanks!

Comments

[cellio]

"People who like X also like..." -- not sure how you would structure this, maybe mostly driven by questions from the audience, but helping people discover games that are similar in some important way to ones they already like, but aren't just the next game from that publisher or whatever, sounds like it could lead to really interesting discussions. Half the work at least would be analyzing what those important factors are -- what can you infer about somebody who like Pandemic, Splendor, and Agricola? I'm imagining a scenario where the person posing the question has to name three games from dissimilar sets as a starting point and the panelists take it from there.

(I don't know if I've ever been to a gaming panel, so apply correction factors as needed.)

[jducoeur]

Interesting notion, and again good for the non-hardcore. Thanks!