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Assassins '09 - Thanks for Playing! Stay tuned for PAX EAST details
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So I didn't do much assassining this year, did great last year though so karma I guess!
Ha ha! It was me who caught you, and my dad who saw you! Thanks for being a good sport, and our D&D game afterwards was a blast, even if you almost died in the first couple of rounds.
I was eliminated while watching the Beatles Rock Band stage. One guy just ran up and got me. My dad was lucky that the guy who ran up was his target, because I had my dad as a target. It was all in good fun though.
Organizer of the Post-PAX Party. You should come!
Satellite Theater for life!
to be honest, I wasn't wearing mine after I got killed on Saturday (Friday?). The "one size fits all" armband was cutting off circulation in my arm any time I raised it past waist level.
Sadly, it wasn't meant to be, I was killed a few hours later while checking out the line for Wil Wheaton's signing. When I was walking over to the wall to flip my badge around a second assassin came over and tried to kill me again. I wore the badge for most of the rest of the day but stopped after a trip to my room to drop off my swag.
I gave you the wrong death card. PM me so that we can swap numbers.
I will enter my stuff either tomorrow or monday...I have been working mega hours since I got back from pax cuz at my job another manager quit while I was at PAX...I am not off again til wednesday but I will try to get it done before that....I do believe I had 3 kills and several intel...not sure til I dig it out...sorry for the delay everyone...at least I didnt get sick!!!
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Thanks for making this our best and biggest game so far guys, I was completely blown away by the turnout, and I hope you all had a lot of fun! I'd like to get some feedback from you guys about how you felt the game went. Comments, criticism, etc. are all welcome as long as its constructive.
I'll go ahead and talk about what I think will be the main complaint: the armband holders. The armband holders were too small for some people, we knew that might be the case shortly after getting them. I did get some larger ones that one or two people came and picked up and thanks to LuneOwl for graciously making some extenders.
This will be fixed for the PAX East game and on; We'll be adding the option to pick which sized armband you want when you order. We're also throwing around the idea of not requiring you to buy a holder everytime but we're still working out how that would work logistically.
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1) Having people turn their armbands upside down after they're dead is not a good thing. It's impossible to tell what's right-side-up from a distance, because the only indicators are the small diamonds on the top and left of the symbol, and the extreme fine print below the symbol. I really dig the gathering intel part, so I think the thing to do would be to have the intel code in large print on the back of the card. No symbol. If you're dead, flip it over to the intel side and let people gather their intel. This would be a clear indicator that you're dead. Or something similar, but it can't just be "flip your armband over." No one can tell whether you're dead or alive from a distance.
2) People need to wear their armbands. I don't exactly know what the problem was this year; I know several people didn't get their armbands in the mail, and couldn't/wouldn't collect them during PAX for one reason or another. I know other people just took them off after they were dead, or didn't wear them at all. This sucks. All told throughout the expo I maybe saw a dozen armbands, out of 100 orders. It was a major bummer.
3) Armbands are good, but the holders sucked. This is already known and being worked on, so no big deal.
4) The website is pretty buggy still. It drops you into Wordpress at various points throughout the registration/login process, which is weird. At some point I figured out how to comment on blog posts, but I couldn't replicate the process ever again. So if the kinks in the website were ironed out before East, that would be a big help.
Organizer of the Post-PAX Party. You should come!
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We're going to be making some changes to the site between now and PAX East, based on your suggestions and our own observations, but we need all the input we can get so let us know what you like/didnt like about this years game, and any ideas on how to improve upon it for upcoming games.
Thanks again to everyone who played, and making this our biggest Assassins game to date!
Way to go dietcokeoo. Don't think I know who that is but good game!
Loved the bigger intel codes. Liked the armband better than the lanyard once I fixed the size but it was a bit annoying on the arm. Don't know how it could be improved though. What about a "pin" holder kind of like darkphibre's ... I think that was his name ... business card picture buttons? That would keep it out and be able to be displayed anywhere. IDK