On January 28, 2012, members of the Bay Area and Seattle Game communities gathered in Mountain View, California and Redmond, Washington (respectively) for the 6th annual Game Control Summit, which was simulcast between the two locations via video conference.
| Audio Recap: |  |
SnoutCast #102: Of Summits and Letters (27 minutes) |
Talks:
- Running Someone Else's Game - Corey Anderson (Bay Area)
- WHO Re-Cast, Creator's Perspective - Jett Jones (Seattle)
- BAWHO Post-Mortem, Non-Creator's Perspective - Bob Schaffer (Bay Area)
- Puzzle Theory 3: Designing for Portability - Scott Blomquist (Seattle)
- Resurrected: Shinteki Aquarius, 7 Years Later - Linda Holman (Bay Area)
- MSPH14 Simulcast Post-Mortem - Andy Rich (Seattle)
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| Dumb Quiz™: | |
SnoutCast #140: Back to the Summit (24 minutes) |
Running Someone Else's Game
Corey Anderson (21 min.)
A survey of several different puzzle event simulcasts and re-casts, including
SNAP VI/BANG XXVI
and
BANG 28/SNAP 8.
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| More from Seattle: | |
SnoutCast #89: SNAP 8 Debrief (31 minutes) |
| More from the Bay Area: | |
SnoutCast #90: BANG 28 Debrief (25 minutes) |
WHO Re-Cast, Creator's Perspective
Jett Jones (17 min.)
One of the evil geniuses behind the
World Henchmen Organization (WHO) Game
talks about supporting the Bay Area re-cast of their Seattle event.
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| Before WHO: | |
SnoutCast #66: WHO Knows (27 minutes) |
| After WHO: | |
SnoutCast #70: Henching the Night Away (31 minutes) |
BAWHO Post-Mortem, Non-Creator's Perspective
Bob Schaffer (21 min.)
The
Bay Area WHO Game's
"Mr. Universe"
dishes about re-casting the Seattle event.
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Puzzle Theory 3: Designing for Portability
Scott Blomquist (27 min.)
The third in an ongoing series of talks about puzzle design.
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Previously: Puzzle Theory 1 and Puzzle Theory 2.
Resurrected: Shinteki Aquarius, 7 Years Later
Linda Holman (26 min.)
A detailed breakdown of how
Shinteki
updated and re-ran their 2004 event for a new audience.
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| More with Brent & Linda: | |
SnoutCast #72: Haiku Raisin Quest (34 minutes) |
MSPH14 Simulcast Post-Mortem
Andy Rich (15 min.)
On simulcasting the 2011
Microsoft Puzzlehunt
to the Bay Area.
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Credits
Thanks to Shinteki for sponsoring the GC Summit!
(Additional support from Team Snout.)
Meeting space provided by Google and Microsoft.
Video production by Curtis C. Chen, Michael Hilsdale & Jeff Phillips (Seattle), and Larry Hosken & Rich Bragg (Bay Area).
Questions? Comments? E-mail: gcsummit@snout.org