Weekender XLBS: Necromancy, Fantasy Baseball & BoW 2016 Plans
December 6, 2015 by lloyd
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Happy Sunday… Personas eh?
Calum Age 30 spends too much time on the internet, hasn’t put the toys away in the right place since he was 5.
Like that?
We do the same thing at our tech company for UX and CS studies and use case reviews. Basically you gather and analyze data to create a portfolio of “characters” that identify most of your audience / customers, and designate key aspects of their user experience profile that tell you how to best reach those people in the future. How much time do you have, how much money can you spend on products like ours (wallet share), are you new to the market, have you been here a while, etc. How do you use our products, how do you use… Read more »
Happy Sunday!
Has anything changed with the codec or the way you are hosting the backstage videos? My downloader can’t seem to handle this one and the last VLOG. If I can’t download them and watch them on the train to work I would never be able to watch any of your videos 🙁
Happy Sunday!
Fantasy Baseball? What next, Fantasy Cricket or even Fantasy Quiddich?
… What do you mean Quiddich is already fanrasy?
nah, it’s just a nast rumour. Quidditch is a real sport, with it’s own world cup.
Seriously: http://usqworldcup.com/
its a shame they are playing it in a no fly zone?
Happy Sunday! We did personas thing at work…basically archetypes, but with a specific story and a picture to humanize them. This is Tom, he’s a system administrator by day and loves watching the history channel by night. He has come across flames of war content as suggested by one of his gamer friends. etc… I like the newsletters conceptually, but I check the site regularly and see all of the articles before the newsletter comes out. A newsletter that had previews of content, that would be welcomed. Even if it’s just a teaser. Might also be a good way to… Read more »
I really love the idea of hobby weekends.
XLBS Sunday! Good to see Warren exploring the preferred formats that members of the gaming community use to access the BoW articles. The daily emails remind me to check your site for the latest gaming news. I enjoy the video clips (esp. Weekenders) but tend to only have a little time in the evenings to watch them. Never seem to be able timing watching live streams – probably due to being directly on the other side of the world. 😀 Don’t use Chat at all but sometimes read and participate in forum topics. A monthly email highlighting Backstage content for… Read more »
I also watch XLBS in a bed on a Sunday morning though the bit that gets the wife to stir is not “Happy Sunday!” but “hello Ben!” when the KS section starts.
I shall leave any answers to the survey questions for the survey itself, other than to say that whilst expanding the range of the events would be great, it would be a shame to scale back on the bootcamps as this is something that is unique to you.
“How did you find Beasts of War?” drunken wargame nostalgic web browsing best be on the questionnaire 🙂
“How did you find Beasts of War? drunken wargame nostalgic web browsing best be on the questionnaire”
You know, that might be how I ended up here as well.
Dungeon saga with 4 virtual players.
@Warzan one of my favourite things to do when I was visiting the US was to go to a baseball game … if you going to a minor league game you get to sit really close to the action and it costs next to nothing to get in.
That were a long one but interesting – maybe a spin off of the Kickstarter watch show would be a good idea
Morning
Happy Sunday. Fantasy baseball looks fun.
The thread for “Ideas for future Bootcamps” is the Green Room within the backstage section.
http://www.beastsofwar.com/groups/backstage-green-room/forum/topic/ideas-for-future-bootcamps/
I’d like to echo the sentiment that the Kickstarter discussions are taking up too much of the XLBS time. You should definitely consider spinning it off into it’s own show
Interesting show Theres chatrooms?. I didn’t know that I’m not great with technology so haven’t heard of half the things you were talking about but as I am not allowed any form if electronic recording devices anywhere in my workplace coming home to endless messages etc doesn’t appeal to me but I can see the point in it. I like to receive info the same way I would like retail to do it .What I mean is not continually being bothering me with “Am I OK? Can I help you today, Is there any specific you are looking for” every… Read more »
Interesting stuff all this…
I like the idea of hobby weekends a lot! Maybe they should have a kind of broad theme tho, like ‘vehicles’ or ‘infantry’.
A SAGA Bootcamp would be grand as I always wanted to get into it but never got around to.
Location wise I obviously would prefer something closer to home but living in rural Suffolk it seems like there isn’t much lol. Well, London..I guess.
Deffo video content for me whether its weekender style or shorts… I tend to dip in throughout the day as I work from home. If you were to organise an event on mainland UK Cardiff would be a good city but would also be happy with London. Loved the use of Periscope during the boot camp by the way.
Happy Sunday!
The virtual battles idea sort of sounds like a wargaming version of the old TV show “Time Commanders”.
Happy Sunday!
Am sat watching this whilst painting minis – my usual sunday plan 🙂
Will await the survey before adding any more
Went to watch a baseball game in San Francisco when I was there on my honeymoon a few years ago – really fun atmosphere, no inter-team “hate” that you’d see at a football match
@warzan – saw this and thought of you after wathcing the Cadaver section 🙂
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just because of the size of the venue, what about a weekend of gaming at Table Top Nation?
As far as event types go, earlier this year that was an “In-Store Comic Convention” that was streamed to 36 comic book stores – http://www.bleedingcool.com/2015/03/07/that-was-the-in-store-comic-convention-kick-off-that-was/. A Comic Convention is quite different to a Wargames Convention – well the ones in New Zealand anyway. Comic Conventions mainly consist of panels where people talk about a certain topic, creators and publishers promote what they are getting up to next, how they got into the business. Most Wargames Conventions I have been to have mainly been about the tourneys and drinking – not always in that order. Work on the 2016 version is… Read more »
I stopped at 21:55 to say ‘YES SIR’.. I would most definitely appreciate a Backstage Content newsletter or ping notification! Ok, carry on.
I like the vid for Cadaver. Actually having the chips n dips on the table (or crisps and dips as I prefer to call them, crisps and disps even) to really hammer home its chipness and dipness.