R3PLAY - 6th-7th November 2010 - Blackpool

[Mayhem]

Yeah, I was going to ask too... sort of... any chance of seeing what Jeff and Giles are up to... please?

[starshipcommand]

Brilliant pics starshipcommand - and im in two of them

mind if i nick some for my facebook??

Thanks... feel free

[beerman]

Was that Beerman after too much beer?

I'm officially blaming the 5AM start on the saturday morning! Yeah, that was it. Definitely not the beer...

[merman]

Yeah, I was going to ask too... sort of... any chance of seeing what Jeff and Giles are up to... please?

Nah, you had to be there

Great weekend. Got there on the Friday and helped with the set-up till 1am. Got back in early thanks to my staff pass, spent most of the morning chatting to people rather than gaming. Did my two talks - the Ocean Interrogation with Gary Bracey, Simon Butler, Jim Bagley and Mark R Jones, as well as another great chat with the one and only Archer Maclean. Stuck around (ho ho) for the SID'80s gig (an hour and a half, including the previously unplayed Microprose Soccer song by Jon Hare), and went to bed about midnight. Back at 10am on the Sunday, got more chance to play games that day, but thoroughly enjoyed Paul Drury (DRS) interviewing Jeff and Mike Bevan interviewing Jon Hare. More gaming through the afternoon, dinner back at my hotel and then back at the venue till 1am helping pack up (which did include a sneaky gaming session on Micro Machines and Warlords with the die-hard last few).

Good to meet some of the Llamasofties again, too.

[Mayhem]

Maybe next time, I'll have to get asked to participate in something like a Q&A, then I'll have to attend

Unfortunately due to the travelling of the summer and Eurocon, I couldn't really justify going back up north again...

[subzero]

shocking that i actually attended an event that had no mayham....for shame dude!!!

[StarshipUK]

SID80's Concert Audio:
http://www.ride-the-music.com/SID80sR3PLAY/

Grab it before the web host bans me for bandwidth overload

[subzero]

grabbed,got,great!

[madfiddler]

me too - thanks for that

[mamemeister]

Wow.

That looks like an incredible event, any idea who actually organised it?

If there's another one I'll to make a point of getting there.

I'm always surprised at the seemingly lack of any sort of security at these events. I guess the type of persons that frequent these sort of events are pretty decent types who 'undertand' the love, passion and hard work that goes into organising these.

Edit / just noticed there is another planned.

:-)

[merman]

Wow.

That looks like an incredible event, any idea who actually organised it?

If there's another one I'll to make a point of getting there.

I'm always surprised at the seemingly lack of any sort of security at these events. I guess the type of persons that frequent these sort of events are pretty decent types who 'undertand' the love, passion and hard work that goes into organising these.

Edit / just noticed there is another planned.

:-)

There's now a group dedicated to organising/running/helping with this sort of event - The Computing & Gaming Events Union. They did most of the organisation for R3play, with help from various groups including JAMMA+, Hand Baked Arcade, Electronic Dojo, etc.

[subzero]

there was good security too alan - come to next years event - we can travel together!!

[juice]

SID80's Concert Audio:
http://www.ride-the-music.com/SID80sR3PLAY/

Grab it before the web host bans me for bandwidth overload

*slurp*

What did you use to record that? S'a lot better than the quality from my camera - I was standing at the back, so was far enough for the echo-y acoustics of the hall to come into play.

Actually... would you mind if I had a go at syncing up your recordings with my videos?

[StarshipUK]

SID80's Concert Audio:
http://www.ride-the-music.com/SID80sR3PLAY/

Grab it before the web host bans me for bandwidth overload

*slurp*

What did you use to record that? S'a lot better than the quality from my camera - I was standing at the back, so was far enough for the echo-y acoustics of the hall to come into play.

Actually... would you mind if I had a go at syncing up your recordings with my videos?

I used a Sony Minidisc recorder with a set of Core Sound Binaural Microphones with the Bass Filter turned on, and facing the right speaker (about 4 foot away) to avoid audience chatter/noise and as a result it was a bit loud (it was a bit overloud at times anyway) and lost the echo effect.

The microphones cost more than the Minidisc Recorder: http://www.core-sound.com/mics.html but always do the job well.

No problem with the attempted audio sync. Good luck!

[StarshipUK]

there was good security too alan - come to next years event - we can travel together!!

Yes, there was security but they were not over intrusive which was good, but still present incase there was any problems.