Reply To: Beasts of War – OnTableTop – Phase III: Time for speculations and conspiracies

[warzan 31141xp 3]

Well well well

Thanks everyone for inputting into this (just got a chance to start reading it this morning)

We have just had our strategy meetup (Monday and Tuesday) where we as a team got a chance to sit together in person and get a feel for things. We had spent a couple of weeks before that filling out online swatch boards with ideas and thoughts and issues etc so when we got a chance to meet in person we could all come at it with a lot of the bigger picture in place and thoughts and ideas a bit more percolated.

So when Gerry sent me this thread yesterday it was kinda funny as he said ‘Have a look here, it feels very like the conversations we have just had in the studio lol’

So for good or for bad, it seems we all share a lot of the ideas and values for the direction of travel. And all of the things that seem important to you are also important to us.

I’m currently in the digesting phase of this now to try and pull all of this into a more concrete plan that is actually achievable. Some areas (mainly the technical ones) require a bit of experimentation and testing before I can fully say what the direction of travel will be as in some cases we don’t know if an approach might work or not, until we’ve tried a few things out.

I also need to get buy in from the leadership of the group, so far they have been very supportive of this exercise and like you and us, want to see a successful and energetic third phase of the project.

At its most basic though the project is falling into three categories…

A) Technical – This looks at the platform and how we go about making all the performance improvements required.

B) Content – The team have some content ideas and approaches they want to begin testing, and how we re fit the studios etc.

C) Community – I see a lot of mentions of boot camps, and I understand the sentiment, but when we started this project our focus was on reaching people and including them where ever they were in the world. And I want to refocus to embrace that methodology once again. So yes we are well up for some highly interactive events but I’m fairly certain all of them will be virtual first with a view of being able to get anyone anywhere involved if they want to. You shouldn’t have to travel to our little backwater to fully engage with our community, or feel part of it or that you belong. This will take some working out and numerous experiments over the next few years, but I think its the right call.

I have more to say but I’m going to break it down over a number of posts