> Feedback from the booth. > > It would be great if when teaching people fan created games that there > were handouts for each game - with the name, rules, and equipment > that the game needs. That way people can come to the booth with > that handout and know exactly what they need to buy in order to play > it. And we could have a copy of the handouts in the booth so we > could look at them when trying to help someone figure out what game > it is they are wanting to buy pyramids for. It never occurred to me that people would want to buy product on the basis of our little award nominees. I had some vague notion in my head of indirect benefits to the pyramid line, but that's just awesome. Sorry we didn't support the booth this year. Clearly we need to do something next year. My first thought when I read about having handouts was that it could break our budget, since we don't have one. How many copies do you think we might need if we made copies for everyone to take with them? As I recall, all of the rules were several pages long. Since they come from icehousegames.org, they're originally formatted for the web, and reformatting them to take up minimal space could be tricky, especially since we're not the games' authors. I don't remember how much Bryan reformatted them before he printed them. Budgeting considerations aside, I liked having bound copies of the rules in the Lab which could not be removed. At the very least, we should make another bound copy for the booth. If we can afford it, it would be great to have handouts. I probably would've taken a set myself if they had been available. I still haven't managed to print all of them yet. Would it make sense to require the designers to reformat their rules to a printable format as a condition of receiving a nomination? Or do we want to take that job upon ourselves? If we do make a take-with-you copy, I wouldn't want it to simply be a reprinting of the web rules. The quality of what we hand out reflects upon the games and the awards (and indirectly, Looney Labs), so I would like it to be as high quality as possible. Trifolds or booklets that mimic the emerging Looney Labs standard would of course be ideal. One last thought: If we can't manage full-blown copies of the rules, maybe we could have a single trifold handout that had blurbs and equipment requirements for each game. The front and back of the trifold would be all about the ICE Awards, and the inside would be three panels with one panel per game. Alternatively, maybe we could format it such that it contains a tear-out ballot, with all the information you would need to take to the booth. Okay, forget what I said above. I want us to do this. A trifold with a tear-out ballot. The back of the ballot would have a very brief summary of everything, so it's still useful after it's detatched. The front and back of the trifold would be all about the ICE Awards, and the other two inside pages would be all about the nominees (which you could take to the booth even after you've voted). Which brings us back to: how many would we need? - Jeff