Thanks everyone for the great work in this. Really impressive what we can do as a group (with good organization and leadership).
On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 3:53 PM, Nathan Wild <[email protected]> wrote: > > Our presence at the Freeze Frame Media Zone has concluded for 2013! I > want to pass along the festival organizers' thanks for our contribution. A > LOT of people spent time at our booth. Many many games of GRYTH were > played, many thumbnails were mercilessly crushed into submission on the > uJoypad, many confused people kept pausing NES games mid-jump when they got > excited and tipped the NES-Chuck upright, and the Skull-o-tron saw more > games played in the last four days than it likely has in the last 2 years. > > This event would not have been possible without the help of: > > - Alex (Omega) > - Andrew > - Ben > - Colin (Prime) > - Courtney > - Dave (Ysarro) > - Ethan (my son) > - Fernando > - Jim > - Meako > - Neena > - Tish > - Vicki (my lovely and most tolerant wife) > - and... anyone I forgot... > > It was rough to be there four straight days during prime business hours, > but we managed to have 2-3 people present all the time and things ran > really well. Special thanks to Dave for help hauling stuff in and get set > up and to Vicki for helping tear-down and haul stuff out. > > A large number of the people at our booth were under the age of eligible > membership, but it was great to give them a fun experience to take home. A > lot of people who had not heard of Skullspace have now, and their > first-contact has been very positive. > > I had the opportunity to speak to a few parents and a lot of teachers > about the space, and made a lot of really good contacts for the Cyber > Defence Challenge and Online Safety For Kids projects. We may also see > some interest in partnering for projects through people like Art City who > were extremely keen to come check the space out and see how they can work > with our members. One school in Steinbach runs a video-game development > program with their students as was interested in seeing if we could work > together on a mini Pegjam type event. Cool stuff! > > All in all, worthwhile event and I am glad we were there. > > -- > *Nathan T. Wild* > > > _______________________________________________ > SkullSpace Discuss Mailing List > Help: http://www.skullspace.ca/wiki/index.php/Mailing_List#Discuss > Archive: https://groups.google.com/group/skullspace-discuss-archive/ >
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