Today we did our first public convention, Maker Expo KW 2016. It was a local event taking place in Kitchener – Waterloo, at city hall. There were robots, 3d printers, and LEDs everywhere. It was very cool. There was an estimated 10,000 attendees.
I was a little worried at first since I didn’t know what to expect. Would people play our games or would that just glance and walk by? Would they play them and not like them? After all, this was our debut in the sense of getting real time feedback in person. Uncharted territory.
All of my worries washed away when person after person sat down, began to play, and actually played for a considerable amount of time. We demonstrated two games. Super Markup World and Peripheral. Both were prize winning games at global game jams this year. Peripheral winning 1st place and Super Markup World getting 4th.
So all in all, a great time. I do wish that more adults sat down to try the games. I also wish that more people followed us on twitter afterwards. We will have to figure out how to do a “call to action” better next time.
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