cyber war II coming in Nov 2020
CYBËR WÅRS AAR
All,
At the HMGS Board of Directors Meeting on August 23, 2020 the Board voted to host another CYBËR WÅRS this year, November 12-15! While more information will be forthcoming I wanted to take a minute to appraise everyone about some statistics from CYBËR WÅRS in July.
I’d like to include the following highlights:
We had four days of virtual gaming across a variety of platforms. We had twenty games, all of which had enough players to run through the games.
We had a virtual club room in which we were able to highlight nine different clubs.
We had a virtual painting competition with 26 entrants, who submitted 66 entries between 6 different categories. Our vendors provided excellent prize support for this competition.
We had a virtual Hobby Room in which we posted 7 videos. Greg Zuniga ran a live Twitch stream on Friday night, and James Wappel live streamed on Twitch for over 15 hours for us.
No Dice No Glory coordinated the HMGS Round Table for us. These live events ran from Thursday evening, all the way through Sunday evening. We had a total of 18 different presentations from podcasters, historians, game designers and presidents of major gaming companies. Over four hundred people watched the videos live. No Dice No Glory uploaded all the presentations within 30 minutes of the evening’s presentations ending on their YouTube channel. As of July 26, 628 people had watched videos from the event.
We had a virtual vendor hall with 105 vendors listed, 24 of which offered either a show discount, prize support for our painting competition, or both.
We created a CYBËR WÅRS Facebook page which gathered 243 likes, and a CYBËR WÅRS Lounge group for people to talk about CYBËR WÅRS which gathered 130 members.
We created a webpage on the HMGS website which had our virtual games, Round Table events, and vendors so those members who don’t use Facebook could access CYBËR WÅRS.
I am still amazed at how much we managed to get done together as a team in only six weeks.
I would be remiss if I didn’t mention a few people who really helped make this event a success.
The Board of Directors for their support.
Todd Pressley for vouching for me and allowing my idea to become a reality. I’d also like to thank Todd for taking on the virtual gaming.
Todd and John Hollier for all their work in creating our official CYBËR WÅRS webpage.
Mitch Reed and the entire crew of No Dice No Glory for creating the HMGS Round Table, presented by No Dice No Glory.
Joerg Bender and the Tabletop Simulator gaming group for introducing Todd and I to virtual tabletop gaming and the many resources available.
David Ensteness and Chris Bennett for their early support and brainstorming sessions.
Greg Zuniga for his videos, Twitch stream and recruiting James Wappel.
James Wappel for his two marathon Twitch streams.
Dave Taylor for judging our painting competition.
The following vendors for donating product for our painting competition:
Winged Hussar https://www.wingedhussarpublishing.com/
Things from the Basement www.thingsfromthebasement.com
WargamerUS www.wargamerus.com
Firelock Games https://www.firelockgames.com/
MSD Games, LLC http://msdgames.com/
Lombardy Studios https://lombardystudios.com/
Warlord Games https://store.warlordgames.com/
Finally, I’d like to thank everyone who took a chance on CYBËR WÅRS and participated in any way. I especially appreciate the feedback, whether it was just to thank us and provide some kind words, or to provide constructive criticism. We weren’t expecting perfection but with all the collaboration I think we came way closer than we could have reasonably expected.
Sincerely,
Dennis Jensen
CYBËR WÅRS Convention Director, HMGS Inc.
cyberwarscd@hmgs.org
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