Diplogame Workshop at Apolycon

[OzzyKP]

It went well. CapTVK was with me helping out here and there.

I was surprized and pleased that pretty much everyone in the crowd knew of diplogaming and had an idea what we were about. Several people told me they have read our threads and were impressed with our style of play.

Unfortunately we were pressed for time since the schedule got bent out of shape by earlier presenters, but I knew the people there would have liked to keep going and keep discussing it.

Whether we get more players out of it or not, I'm not sure, but it is always good to know we have an audience (you guys should speak up more! Get some +1's!). Hopefully a few will give it a shot and get hooked.

There were a few good questions/comments about diplogaming from the audience during my workshop. The two suggestions I heard that stood out most was a suggestion we try using Pitboss for the games, and that we have some kind of vote to end the game at a certain point. And declare a winner based on different criteria like who we objectively thought played the best in the game.

Thoughts on that? Has anyone tried pitboss? From what Trip said, it sounds like it just may work.

[Robert]

Great! Where some firaxians on the workshop?
Diplogaming is maturing, we're already giving away workshops 8)

The pitboss server things sounds like a good idea! I have no experiences with it.
Regarding the end-game, I think that we just should use a natural civ ending. After that we can of course analyse the game and all vote for a 1st, 2nd and 3th winner. Maybe we should keep a log of the winners. (game-winner and vote-winner / 2nd / 3rd)

[ZargonX]

It was a great presentation, Ozzy

[OzzyKP]

Thanks Zargon.

And yes, Trip was there for the whole thing, and Soren was there for part of it, but then he left.

[The Capo]

What'd you say in your presentation?

Inquiring minds must know!

[deity]

Well done ozzy

Yeah, tell us what you said - any documentation? Minutes?

[MMC]

Re: Diplogame Workshop at Apolycon

Originally posted by OzzyKP
Has anyone tried pitboss? From what Trip said, it sounds like it just may work.

Seems like Trip beat me to the suggestion (not that I could make it to Apolycon).

I also have plenty of experience with PitBoss, and I also support the use of http://www.civstats.com for game/score tracking. Could be useful for increasing the information we can give to readers to keep them interested. For more information on CivStats, check out the ApolytonMFS game which I'm hosting (barring connection problems caused by moving my PC across country).

PS: Unless someone else wishes to claim the title, I would be willing to be Apolyton's Resident PitBoss expert (barring Firaxians and neo-Firaxians)

[Smellycowsquid]

MMC would have my vote, if it matters.

[LzPrst]

what is pitboss?

also, should we move the discussion about a diplo-endgame-voting system to this thread perhaps?

[Robert]

Not to this thread, this is the workshop thrad
To the general diplogame thread, imho.

Pitboss is a server for civilization. you can download it and run it on a pc. Players can login to the server to play their turn. It's some kind of play by e-mail. If all players login at the same time they can play normal-style.

[Metaliturtle]

Great Presentation Ozzy, thanks for driving me around in Thaboat it was a highlight of my trip... one my fiancee doesn't know about because well, I enjoyed riding in a car, something I didn't have to spend hundreds of dollars to go do...

ANYWAYS

What's happenin' with the diplogames?