I've been approached by my old boss, Dan Attril, who is organising ARC40K 2013.
Quickly, some fun facts:
- ARC40K is a Melbourne-based Warhammer 40,000 tournament, the largest in Australia
- Warhammer 40,000 is a war game played on a tabletop with hand-painted miniatures, in essence a more immersive evolution of chess
Dan's idea is to introduce a level of immersion and interactivity to ARC40K that had yet to be seen in previous ARC40K events or indeed tournaments in general.
ARC40K features 6 games, played out over two days. One of the great perks of ARC40K are the themed missions, often featuring a truly colourful and humorous introduction, or briefing. These briefings were then distributed to the tournament players via a printout, which they could then take to their game as a reference.
In the past, this has proved a double-edged blade. Whilst the crowd of gamers is thoroughly entertained, time can become an issue when the inevitable questions arise from the audience, as well as the time needed to pass these around the audience. Minor complaint, but in a game of this nature (where games are often not completed due to time constraints) every minute counts!
Dan's question to me is, can a multimedia presentation help this problem?
I thought, here's a great excuse to crack out AFTER EFFECTS!
In short, game on.
-Mo
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