Project Horseshoe 2011

As Platinum Sponsors this year, Dustin & I attended the 6th annual Project Horseshoe.  Arriving Thursday afternoon, we gathered to get introduced, play some prototypes and greet old friends.  I played a couple of new games, including Dixit, an excellent game which we'll be getting to play at the office sometime soon.

Our speakers, Edward Castranova and Ken Rolston, provided some great inspiration for attendees to get psyched for forming workgroups.  This year, we had 5 workgroups on diverse topics, from the role of psychology in making games to redefining genres.  Hard work all day Friday and Saturday was punctuated by playing games, long, deep conversations and design philosophy.

Saturday evening's presentations by workgroups demonstrated lots of hard work and had participants sprinting around to locate geocaches.  After the presentations we stayed up late to keep the magic going as long as possible, aided by the extra hour granted to us by the time change.  Sunday found us reluctantly heading home to work on reports for workgroups and to cherish another year at Project Horseshoe.

- Patricia Pizer