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12 years ago
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I could make this into a very long journal... but I'm going to try to do a much consolidated one as MFF this year, specfically my part in it, was CRAZY.
Crazy in a good way mostly. For those who don't know I'm staff at MFF; I'm the Gaming Tract head.
This may not sound like much... your mind may go "oh you have an easy job, you get to sit and play games all con" and a lot of times I wish it was that easy...
I barely had any time to play any games this year except very late at night when only the die-hard gamers were around; then I was able to sneak in some CAH But aside from that...
I was on my feet the rest of the con, running back and forth to keep my head above water. I scheduled myself to run 3 games and wasn't able to run any of them. Outside of running around as Staff all I got to do was take short clips of video between my runs. I am hoping to put together a MFF video this year as I was too taxed to really spend any time with photography.
I had my Olympus PEN on a lightweight video C bracket and a small LED light. All told with lens it weighed less then my 60D body ONLY which for as much running I had to do made it invauleable. I'm really suprised Micro 4/3rds cameras arent more popular at con. I saw dozens upon dozens of DSLRs, a lot of Go Pros and cell phones. The olympus is a great compromise for size and quality and is ideal for a convention. Unless I'm an offical con photographer; I have NO REASON to lug my brick of an SLR around.
Anyways... the rig worked pretty good the few times I got to use it. I'm a noob when it comes to Videography but I simply did not have the time to sit and concentrate on Photography- all I got for photos on the camera was few quick snapshots. But I hope the video I got makes up for it.
But back to gaming; it was insane. We changed our gaming areas which, in the past when we've done it would cause a slump for a year then pick up. Instead it exploded. The con grew by over 500 people and this growth reflected in gaming too. We had at one point a total of 20 tables of gamers full of 8-12 at each along with two games of Lupus in Tabula running 15-20 people and 20-30 in the video game room. Good freaking god thats a lot of gamers.
Next year, we hope to expand gaming further which is not something I was expecting to say. And hopefully have the staff to cover it so I can enjoy more of the con and not fall over dead. I haven't been this busy as gaming staff at MFF since the first two years as staff when it was really just me and I had no one under me. If that was still the case... I'd be dead by now c.c.
So a big thank you to all the people who stopped by gaming at MFF this year, and to my staff. You guys all rock! I'm really looking forward to next year in spite of how crazy insane it gets...
Because in the end it was all worth it. Gaming made a growing portion of this con happy. We had enough attendees in gaming throughout the con that made us bigger then a small to medium sized DEDICATED gaming convention. Sweet Jesus.
So yeah to all the gamers out there that went to MFF THANK YOU and I really hope to see you all back again for 2014 :)
Crazy in a good way mostly. For those who don't know I'm staff at MFF; I'm the Gaming Tract head.
This may not sound like much... your mind may go "oh you have an easy job, you get to sit and play games all con" and a lot of times I wish it was that easy...
I barely had any time to play any games this year except very late at night when only the die-hard gamers were around; then I was able to sneak in some CAH But aside from that...
I was on my feet the rest of the con, running back and forth to keep my head above water. I scheduled myself to run 3 games and wasn't able to run any of them. Outside of running around as Staff all I got to do was take short clips of video between my runs. I am hoping to put together a MFF video this year as I was too taxed to really spend any time with photography.
I had my Olympus PEN on a lightweight video C bracket and a small LED light. All told with lens it weighed less then my 60D body ONLY which for as much running I had to do made it invauleable. I'm really suprised Micro 4/3rds cameras arent more popular at con. I saw dozens upon dozens of DSLRs, a lot of Go Pros and cell phones. The olympus is a great compromise for size and quality and is ideal for a convention. Unless I'm an offical con photographer; I have NO REASON to lug my brick of an SLR around.
Anyways... the rig worked pretty good the few times I got to use it. I'm a noob when it comes to Videography but I simply did not have the time to sit and concentrate on Photography- all I got for photos on the camera was few quick snapshots. But I hope the video I got makes up for it.
But back to gaming; it was insane. We changed our gaming areas which, in the past when we've done it would cause a slump for a year then pick up. Instead it exploded. The con grew by over 500 people and this growth reflected in gaming too. We had at one point a total of 20 tables of gamers full of 8-12 at each along with two games of Lupus in Tabula running 15-20 people and 20-30 in the video game room. Good freaking god thats a lot of gamers.
Next year, we hope to expand gaming further which is not something I was expecting to say. And hopefully have the staff to cover it so I can enjoy more of the con and not fall over dead. I haven't been this busy as gaming staff at MFF since the first two years as staff when it was really just me and I had no one under me. If that was still the case... I'd be dead by now c.c.
So a big thank you to all the people who stopped by gaming at MFF this year, and to my staff. You guys all rock! I'm really looking forward to next year in spite of how crazy insane it gets...
Because in the end it was all worth it. Gaming made a growing portion of this con happy. We had enough attendees in gaming throughout the con that made us bigger then a small to medium sized DEDICATED gaming convention. Sweet Jesus.
So yeah to all the gamers out there that went to MFF THANK YOU and I really hope to see you all back again for 2014 :)
Sorry I did not get to say hi, though. I kept pretty busy. x.x
If you need any help with gaming stuff, let me know; I should be able to contribute more time to the convention next year.