We thought it would be a shame not to mark the
date when Partizan 2020 should have been taking place, so we are proposing a
very modest little celebration of wargaming stuff to be held via our Facebook
page and other online outlets on the day (17
th May!)
As you know, when we were transported into a
tent for one year we called that event ‘Partizan in the Park’, so we thought it
appropriate to echo that and call this one ‘Partizan in the Cloud.’
We know some traders like to mark events they
cannot attend with special offers anyway, so this is a formalisation and
expansion on that idea, and to that end we’d like to invite both traders and
gamers (and societies who were attending) to join in, and we will highlight and
link to items through our Facebook on the day, with a Facebook Live opening of
the event, and hopefully new stuff going up through the day, depending entirely
on what you can help us with!
So you might want to consider any of the
following, or come up with some better ideas yourself:
VIDEOS – we thought no longer than 5 mins each
– these can be tour of your game, or narrations of an After Action report of
the game as played out on a club run through. For traders you might want to
show things you are planning to release in time for the next Partizan, or are
releasing during purdah, or things you are working on at the moment. You might
want to just connect with your customers with a short message saying how much
you are missing them etc… Videos might be uploaded to Youtube or Vimeo for us
to link to them (try and include ‘Partizan in the Cloud’ in the title if you do
this!) Or you might want to do a short video clip that we can embed in the site
– simple programmes like Adobe Spark Video are relatively easy to master!
BLOG SPECIALS – if you are more literary in
your expressive style then maybe a special blog to mark the day? Links to these
we can put up and create a bit of feedback as to how people are reacting on the
day. Again, include ‘Partizan in the Cloud’ in your blog entry title if you can
to help pull it all together.
PICTURE GALLERY specials – if you have a
collection of pictures stored that you can allow access to on Flickr or
similar, or if you’ve created some cool graphics using Comica app or something
similar we can link to them during the day too. We have an Instagram account
too, so we can link through that for the more visual stuff.
SPECIAL OFFERS – if traders want to do a
special offer on the day, as some of you did for Not Salute Day we are happy to
link to these and direct your customers to you and remind you of why they
really needed more stuff!
LIVE EVENTS – Annie always does a Bad Squiddo
coffee morning on Sundays, and I’ve seen some live painting sessions going on –
we’re happy to incorporate these int the day, although we might need to plan timings
so we don’t have you competing with each other for viewers! I’ve even seen
people doing Facetime gaming in isolation, not sure if these are broadcast-able
to a wider audience?
ANYTHING ELSE CREATIVE that you can think of,
even Tik-Toks, though I’m not sure videos of wargamers dancing and singing is
necessarily a good thing! We’re trying to keep this simple, and don’t want to
pressure people to learn too many new skills (or stretch our own technical
skills!), and we certainly don’t want to think you have to participate. We just
want to do what we try to do on the day of a Partizan show, create a bit of a
buzz, inspire people to think of new ideas, and build their enthusiasm for the
hobby!
We already have offers of assistance from both Wargames Illustrated and Wargames Soldiers and Strategy to help make the event something special.
Henry Hyde will be doing a Patreon recording
with me (Laurence) on Monday, and we’ll release that to the public in the build
up to the online event.
Technically it’s better if you send links etc
to Laurence (at
Laurence.baldwin@ntlworld.com)
– that way we can add it to the main page of the Facebook Partizan page. We’ll
aim to release stuff regularly during the day, but as you may know Facebook
allows you to schedule posts, so send me stuff ahead of time for release on the
day so we get maximum impact and the feel for an ‘on-the-day’ event.
We hope you are able to participate and make
this an isolation-busting wargames event!
Cheers,
Laurence, Tricks and Steve
