The AGDQ 2018 games submission committee has asked us to submit TAS content. They have specifically asked us to focus on highly entertaining (and reasonably short or otherwise varied) content, and they have specifically asked us to avoid focusing on technical shenanigans for this event. Console verification is preferred where possible but not required meaning running TAS's in an emulator is acceptable for this event (although playing back videos is not acceptable). Good, practiced commentary is a must and having the authors of the run present is considered a bonus.
As I've noted in a few places I cannot guarantee it will be possible for me to attend the event. Likewise, I have completely shifted my leadership role away from being "the guy in charge" to being more of a facilitator or guide, simply asking volunteers how things are going and helping them stay unblocked. This change is needed for a wide variety of reasons, ranging from how I feel I personally mishandled certain aspects of past events to the current amount of free time I am likely to have for the foreseeable future due to real life events. At this time I hope to be able to attend the event but I've asked Jaku to stand in for me if I cannot be there in person.
With all that said, we have a limited amount of time to identify content that meets the game selection committee's requests as submissions start September 2nd and close September 13th. Can you, yes you dear reader, think of a run that would be a good fit based on past content already shown at GDQ events and based on length and entertainment? Again, I'm expecting we will not be doing console verification but we will attempt to do so wherever possible; I realize this may be an unpopular viewpoint and there will be some that will be very upset by this but it's the only reasonable way to allow us to show a wider variety of content than we have been able to show so far and the benefits outweigh the downsides in my opinion.
So, what should we pitch? Reply here, come to #tasbot /
http://chat.tasbot.net or something else but don't assume someone else will step up. Thanks to everyone in the past who has supported TAS at GDQ efforts!
