The new "piecepack Workshop" starting thread

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

(as you may have already seen discussed on this very Yahoo group ...)

{and, obviously, the group moderators can feel free to remove this 
topic and give me a cease & desist if they don't feel it's in line 
with what this group should be about ...}

Based upon a successful game design workshop system that I've seen in 
operation at the Board Game Designer's Forum (www.bgdf.com) website, 
I am volunteering to organize/administer a similar thing here just 
for piecepack designers.

I envision it working like this:  Each week a single in-process 
piecepack game design is submitted by a member of the group for read-
through, playtest and critique by all other members of the group.  
Members will make *constructive* comments in the thread in order to 
help the designer fix any problems, enhance the game, and move it 
toward completion.

As the workshop admin (and I want to stress that I'm only an 
organizer -- or facilitator, if you'd like -- to keep this bus on the 
road ... but it's "our" bus, not "my" bus ;-D) I would do the 
following:  (1) Organize the week-by-week schedule, and (2) Start the 
thread for each week's game.

People interested in submitting a design for the workshop (and I know 
there are a number of them in the files section) should e-mail me 
directly, and offline, here: brykovian@... ... I will 
maintain a "Workshop Schedule" file in the Files section.

Designs should be "mostly done", but not quite ready for official 
release.  They should at least be at the point that group members can 
walk-through and/or test-play.  Designers should remain open-minded 
and willing to hear the critiques given by the group with the 
intention to improve and complete the game.

Okay ... with that, I'll start taking e-mails, and look to have the 
first game up for discussion on Monday, 19-January-2004.

Thanks,
-Matt Worden (aka "Brykovian")