Official Gamers with Jobs Slap & Tickle Heard 'Round the World! October 23rd

rabbit wrote:

May just have to make it a family game day

This. From the looks of it I won't be able to make it to a get together But I'll make sure myself and the missus have some drinks and play some games.

Elysium wrote:

It's also Elysium 3.0's birthday that day, oily.

=)

Floomi wrote:

Gorram, UK Goodjers. You're letting the side down!

We might be able to get something to happen, Cambridge isn't too much of a trek for me as my folks live in St Ives and I'm up there all the time. Need to get the likes of Haakon and DudleySmith involved...

IMAGE(http://www.creatingacomic.com/images/beacons-of-gondor.jpg)

oilypenguin wrote:

I just don't think it's feasible to always have an S&T on that day, though, as it will rarely fall on the weekend.

I agree. It's the Christmas vs Thanksgiving sort of thing. Date versus part of the month. I am inclined towards part of a month. Maybe the inaugural is in October and the rest are some other date/time.

I'm interested to hear what the founders have up their sleeve. From talking with Rabbit and reading Certis' post, I'm curious to hear how they'll weigh in on the topic.

7inchsplit wrote:

Thanks, guys!

FedoraMcQuaid wrote:

We need some goddamned t-shirts of that.
Holy crap.

I can't speak to how well this would reproduce on a t-shirt, but I can say I made this big enough to be printed at 18" x 24". I'll have to figure out a good place to put the file.

HedgeWizard wrote:

PS. The lens flare makes me want to pee my pants. So awesome. So very awesome.

It was the last thing I added. Really ties everything together.

If we're wanting something printed for Oily's S&T, PM me. I work at a printing company and getting that done up on something auction-able is definitely doable. Also, I'm wondering if we can't do something smaller in a more souvenir aimed hand-out...

complexmath wrote:

Sweet picture! As soon as I opened it my 2 year-old daughter said "I wanna go space! We can build a rocket ship and go space. 3 2 1 blast off! Daddy, you build a rocket ship for me?" I'm so proud.

I feel the same way!

trueheart78 wrote:
7inchsplit wrote:

Thanks, guys!

FedoraMcQuaid wrote:

We need some goddamned t-shirts of that.
Holy crap.

I can't speak to how well this would reproduce on a t-shirt, but I can say I made this big enough to be printed at 18" x 24". I'll have to figure out a good place to put the file.

HedgeWizard wrote:

PS. The lens flare makes me want to pee my pants. So awesome. So very awesome.

It was the last thing I added. Really ties everything together.

If we're wanting something printed for Oily's S&T, PM me. I work at a printing company and getting that done up on something auction-able is definitely doable. Also, I'm wondering if we can't do something smaller in a more souvenir aimed hand-out...

That is extremely exciting.

*Le sigh.* Upon further investigation, I have a wedding to be at that day. Possibly I could join at a late hour, definitely could not host.

That's my 3rd wedding anniversary, I'll be on a beach looking at the ocean with my wife.

Seattleites - represent! I don't know what I'm doing, or where I'm doing it, but I want to do it. And you lot are doing it with me! I picked up a copy of Munchkin Portal at PAX and I know how to use it! (well, sorta)

Are people interested in coming out to Redmond? Or should I start looking for a site in Seattle proper?

oilypenguin wrote:
Elysium wrote:

It's also Elysium 3.0's birthday that day, oily.

=)

My birthday's the day before. I'll have to figure out what the kids have planned beyond my birthday song and coordinate with them.

ApplepieChamploo wrote:
Floomi wrote:

Gorram, UK Goodjers. You're letting the side down!

We might be able to get something to happen, Cambridge isn't too much of a trek for me as my folks live in St Ives and I'm up there all the time. Need to get the likes of Haakon and DudleySmith involved...

IMAGE(http://www.creatingacomic.com/images/beacons-of-gondor.jpg)

I'd be quite happy to make a trip down to London if it's more convenient for people to get to. Which it probably is.

Apologies for sucking, Floomi! Would love to host something here but can't imagine the rents being too keen on it.

I'm Londonwards but am well prepared to travel. My work rota says I have the day to myself (hooray!) so distance isn't too much of an issue.

And the logo is many kinds of awesome.

momgamer wrote:

Seattleites - represent! I don't know what I'm doing, or where I'm doing it, but I want to do it. And you lot are doing it with me! I picked up a copy of Munchkin Portal at PAX and I know how to use it! (well, sorta)

Are people interested in coming out to Redmond? Or should I start looking for a site in Seattle proper?

oilypenguin wrote:
Elysium wrote:

It's also Elysium 3.0's birthday that day, oily.

=)

My birthday's the day before. I'll have to figure out what the kids have planned beyond my birthday song and coordinate with them.

I'm always in, Mom.

Turns out that's my wife's birthday too. Maybe she'll crowd the mic and we can sing to her.

Geez, I go away on vacation for a week and this happens. The Goodjer collective never ceases to amaze.

Just did a bit of research on poster printing this morning. The cost to print them is hugely variable depending on the numbers, so it's a bit of a crap shoot as to whether it would be an efficient way to raise some cash for the Child's Play fund. Feels like there'd be two ways to approach getting these printed:

1) The easy, low-risk, no Child's Play method, aka Zazzle.com. This is print-on-demand, akin to Cafe Press, so people could place very small orders locally and have them shipped to them by Zazzle without the need for any central organizer, really. The disadvantage is that all the money goes to Zazzle and there's no room for Child's Play in the picture.

2) The difficult, riskier, (potentially) Child's Play oriented method, aka the centralized method. This involves someone (possibly me) collecting orders from people, and people paying into a central Paypal account. Once the orders close, I would order the prints from a local printer at a (depending on the number of orders) potentially very cheap cost per print. Then I'd place the order, paying from the Paypal account, pick up the prints and mail them out to people (individuals or by S&T). Whatever is left in the account goes to Child's Play. (Another thing to consider: posters would need to be ordered in nice round numbers--25, 50, 100, etc.)

Which method is better? I guess it depends on interest! In either case I think $20-25 would be the price point for the posters. If a lot of people want posters (like say 50-100), then with method #2 the posters could be as cheap as $12-$7, plus S&H, meaning a reasonable amount of donation money left. If it's less than 50, though, then method #1 makes more sense (since the posters would actually be more expensive through the local printer this way).

Phew! Lot of info there, but just thinking it through Anybody have any thoughts or alternatives? Seems like predicting the number of orders is the lynchpin here.

I would love a shirt with this on the back and maybe a stan on the front top left. Maybe the powers that be could have that stocked in the GWJ store?

It's the weekend before my wedding, so it will probably be packed with errands and craziness, but I will try to attend Rob_Anybody's party in Northern VA. Which is for lovers. Game lovers!

I vote #2 and you organizing it (mwahahahahaha). We should determine the price for the minimum number that we could order, say 100 and base our price around that.

Let's say, if we only have 100 orders, the cost per poster is $20 each to make so we charge $25 (to cover shipping) and CP doesn't make any money but at last we can ship the posters. However, every poster over that minimum number means $ for CP. 1000 posters ordered only costs us $12 each to have made but that's $13,000 for child's play.

Either way, we're placing orders with the printers after the goodjers place the orders with us in both scenarios, so we can sort of figure out the most cost efficient way as we go.

And maybe these should go in the GWJ store for post-child's play? (which reminds me, I still want to get a blue friend me up shirt)

Thanks for the brain dump and research 7inch! Let's see what the overlords have to say, and see how much they want to pimp this little movement of ours. That would likely skew the momentum and interest in obtaining posters, shirts, mugs, phylacteries of soul binding, etc.

How much lead time would we want/need?

ptft wrote:

Apologies for sucking, Floomi! Would love to host something here but can't imagine the rents being too keen on it.

I'm Londonwards but am well prepared to travel. My work rota says I have the day to myself (hooray!) so distance isn't too much of an issue.

And the logo is many kinds of awesome.

If we can get at least three then we're out of 'company' into 'crowd' territory, thus relieving the Brit-shame.

At this point I think we need to pump the breaks a bit.

Before we start talking about producing tons of posters, shirts and mugs, let's make sure we get the basics of where everyone is gathering and stuff first. I know there's a lot of enthusiasm right now but that's going to turn into something less than awesome if someone is sitting on a few hundred dollars worth of stuff that only a handful of people bought.

One step at a time, guys. I'll be contacting the people who are planning to run these individual gatherings tonight.

Certis wrote:

Before we start talking about producing tons of posters, shirts and mugs, let's make sure we get the basics of where everyone is gathering and stuff first. I know there's a lot of enthusiasm right now but that's going to turn into something less than awesome if someone is sitting on a few hundred dollars worth of stuff that only a handful of people bought.

Agreed; we definitely shouldn't do any printing until we know how many people are ordering. And really, I'm thinking we'll be printing, at most, in the 100 posters range, and more likely much fewer.

Right now we're just putting feelers out, seeing what's plausible. Figured I'd do some research since people sound interested in prints. Zazzle might just be the simplest thing.

oilypenguin wrote:

Either way, we're placing orders with the printers after the goodjers place the orders with us in both scenarios, so we can sort of figure out the most cost efficient way as we go.

This is the trick. I can take orders, and if a certain threshold is reached I'll go with the local printer and mail them myself. Below that, I can place the orders through Zazzle and have them mailed directly. How to go about doing this is the question, and if doing it this way makes sense in the first place. The blessings of the overlords, the ability to use some formal Paypal account (versus a personal one, which just feels sketchy), and a little help organizing are probably all smart things to secure.

HedgeWizard wrote:

Thanks for the brain dump and research 7inch! Let's see what the overlords have to say, and see how much they want to pimp this little movement of ours. That would likely skew the momentum and interest in obtaining posters, shirts, mugs, phylacteries of soul binding, etc.

How much lead time would we want/need?

No prob! In terms of timing, it might be nice to send these directly to S&T hosts before the 23rd, but it would probably be easier to have a more floaty deadline and send these out the week before the event, and they there when they get there.

Crap, I just realized I've got a social to attend that night. All y'all Winnipeg Goodjers know what I'm talkin' about at least

Residents of our Green and Pleasant Land, don't let me down.

Certis wrote:

At this point I think we need to pump the breaks a bit.

Before we start talking about producing tons of posters, shirts and mugs, let's make sure we get the basics of where everyone is gathering and stuff first. I know there's a lot of enthusiasm right now but that's going to turn into something less than awesome if someone is sitting on a few hundred dollars worth of stuff that only a handful of people bought.

One step at a time, guys. I'll be contacting the people who are planning to run these individual gatherings tonight.

SadSally will be at an S & T of one:(

Maybe use Google moderator or something to start gauging interest for ordering posters/whatever? I would think people who aren't at S&Ts might still want something.

SallyNasty wrote:
Certis wrote:

At this point I think we need to pump the breaks a bit.

Before we start talking about producing tons of posters, shirts and mugs, let's make sure we get the basics of where everyone is gathering and stuff first. I know there's a lot of enthusiasm right now but that's going to turn into something less than awesome if someone is sitting on a few hundred dollars worth of stuff that only a handful of people bought.

One step at a time, guys. I'll be contacting the people who are planning to run these individual gatherings tonight.

SadSally will be at an S & T of one:(

Sally needs to man up and come to Ohio. Talk to Bent, I think he might be driving.

Did I mention that I work at a small printing company? Becaue I work at a small printing company.

Getting 100+ of the posters on a 14x20 quality paper would cost next to nothing for me. Mateo has seen the some of the stuff we've done when I had him as a Secret Santa last year. Shipping is the only concern, but I'm sure if we have paypal funds, I could get tubes + put first class postage on them much cheaper than anywhere else. Even send them via UPS or USPS, whichever is cheaper.

I'm 100% in to this - I can even make a small web portal to take people's orders, we'd just need a paypal account to put it into. This is the stuff I do for a living - take me up on it already!

=)

you hear that?

It sounds like a plan coming together.