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Artemis for Child's Play
Zhara
Nerf Herder, GamerRaleigh, NCRegistered User regular
Nerf Herder, GamerRaleigh, NCRegistered User regular
fellow gamers:
My husband and I have started organizing a charity event for Child's Play, a charity built to provide toys and games to kids currently in hospitals. Too often these kids don't get the holiday gifts many of us receive every year due to their families simply being unable to afford them under the weight of medical bills. Children, even sick children, should be allowed to be children and have toys and games (and books!) to play with.
In order to draw people, we are holding an Artemis marathon from 11:30am to 5:30pm on December 29th at Game Theory , an awesome gaming store in north Raleigh. For those of you not familiar with Artemis, it is a "Starship Bridge Simulator", where each person, with their own console (computer), is part of the bridge crew managing a ship while completing missions, fighting battles and scrambling to save starbases and other ships! If you've seen any episodes of Star Trek, you can get a good feeling for how this game works. It's a very social game and an enormous amount of fun. We figure that we can introduce some new people to this game as well as make some money for Child's Play this holiday season.
We are still coming up with ideas on how to drive our donations and any ideas would be appreciated. Please keep in mind that we will have alot of players that are new to the game. For those of you who can't attend, but would like to donate to Child's play on behalf of the marathon, visit our chipin page and donate! All proceeds are going to Child's Play.
Here's how it will work:
- Sign up on the Meetup page that you will be attending.
- Donate on the Chipin page, any amount is appreciated. Feel free to bring donations when you arrive, too. We'll donate all the money through chipin you give us.
- If you want to work towards setting up additional bridges for co-op or PvP, bring a Linux or Windows laptop (The game is known working via WINE) and a network cable. I recommend setting up a "limited" temporary account if you do this, and don't bring a machine with lots of sensitive info on it unless you protect it!
- We'll be set up with a single bridge (5 stations + main screen) with cameras over ustream
- If you don't want to be on camera, just let us know when you get there.
- I'll have as much network cable as I can get and a 24 port switch to connect additional gear, as well as a private WIFI network for the game, so if we need to spread out we can use wireless.
- We'll do single-bridge on rotation for everyone there, as well as set up PvP
and Co-op events as players want. The idea is to get people introduced to the game if they're new, and generally have a good time with fellow gamers.
- Game Theory has tons to do, and we'll bring board and card games for those not currently playing, so feel free to drop in and just have fun!
- The store has snacks and drinks for sale and there's several places to eat nearby, including a really good pizza joint.
Finally, most of the discussion and the "central point" for the event discussion is Facebook. You may also check us out on Twitter. I've included direct links for everyone below as well, so you don't have to use Facebook to attend if you don't want to.
If you have any questions, feel free to ask!
[1]: http://www.childsplaycharity.org
[2]:http://www.gametheorystore.com/
[3]: http://artemischildsplay.chipin.com/artemis-for-childs-play
[4]: http://www.meetup.com/Game-Theory/events/91060252/
[5]: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/artemis-charity-event-for-child-s-play
[6]: https://www.facebook.com/events/299446110156145/
[7] https://twitter.com/Artemisforchild
My husband and I have started organizing a charity event for Child's Play, a charity built to provide toys and games to kids currently in hospitals. Too often these kids don't get the holiday gifts many of us receive every year due to their families simply being unable to afford them under the weight of medical bills. Children, even sick children, should be allowed to be children and have toys and games (and books!) to play with.
In order to draw people, we are holding an Artemis marathon from 11:30am to 5:30pm on December 29th at Game Theory , an awesome gaming store in north Raleigh. For those of you not familiar with Artemis, it is a "Starship Bridge Simulator", where each person, with their own console (computer), is part of the bridge crew managing a ship while completing missions, fighting battles and scrambling to save starbases and other ships! If you've seen any episodes of Star Trek, you can get a good feeling for how this game works. It's a very social game and an enormous amount of fun. We figure that we can introduce some new people to this game as well as make some money for Child's Play this holiday season.
We are still coming up with ideas on how to drive our donations and any ideas would be appreciated. Please keep in mind that we will have alot of players that are new to the game. For those of you who can't attend, but would like to donate to Child's play on behalf of the marathon, visit our chipin page and donate! All proceeds are going to Child's Play.
Here's how it will work:
- Sign up on the Meetup page that you will be attending.
- Donate on the Chipin page, any amount is appreciated. Feel free to bring donations when you arrive, too. We'll donate all the money through chipin you give us.
- If you want to work towards setting up additional bridges for co-op or PvP, bring a Linux or Windows laptop (The game is known working via WINE) and a network cable. I recommend setting up a "limited" temporary account if you do this, and don't bring a machine with lots of sensitive info on it unless you protect it!
- We'll be set up with a single bridge (5 stations + main screen) with cameras over ustream
- If you don't want to be on camera, just let us know when you get there.
- I'll have as much network cable as I can get and a 24 port switch to connect additional gear, as well as a private WIFI network for the game, so if we need to spread out we can use wireless.
- We'll do single-bridge on rotation for everyone there, as well as set up PvP
and Co-op events as players want. The idea is to get people introduced to the game if they're new, and generally have a good time with fellow gamers.
- Game Theory has tons to do, and we'll bring board and card games for those not currently playing, so feel free to drop in and just have fun!
- The store has snacks and drinks for sale and there's several places to eat nearby, including a really good pizza joint.
Finally, most of the discussion and the "central point" for the event discussion is Facebook. You may also check us out on Twitter. I've included direct links for everyone below as well, so you don't have to use Facebook to attend if you don't want to.
If you have any questions, feel free to ask!
[1]: http://www.childsplaycharity.org
[2]:http://www.gametheorystore.com/
[3]: http://artemischildsplay.chipin.com/artemis-for-childs-play
[4]: http://www.meetup.com/Game-Theory/events/91060252/
[5]: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/artemis-charity-event-for-child-s-play
[6]: https://www.facebook.com/events/299446110156145/
[7] https://twitter.com/Artemisforchild
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Isn't that just the nice part of cthulhu's sunken city?
gonna be on mobile soon supposedly
I wish it still worked on my computer, but something in the latest patch keeps me from playing. I never got a chance to play with more than one other person either, which makes me sad.
Dream on meatbag.
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edited for errors from husband's notes.
For every $90 we raise we will use the next difficulty in of ship in our current difficulty setting after the current mission is completed. The ship order is:
Dreadnought
Battleship
Missile Cruiser
Light Cruiser
Scout
After we raise difficulty, we will begin the next difficulty at the first ship level again. After the third difficulty we will start only on the Battleship for 2 difficulties, then the Battleship for 2 and so on and so forth.
This program will only work if we get a second ship signed up, so others can come join in. We have tested all the hardware and gotten the program to work on Linux. We still plan on implementing this if we only have one ship, but only after letting the new players get used to the game (say a mission or two).