We are thinking of making a gaming night at a local venue, what would you like to see at a gaming night?

[oliverguy]

Hi

 

So, I work at a local music/events venue, and one of the things we do is cinema screenings. Because of this, we have a large venue Christie projector and a massive 24ft (ish) screen. We also have a huge 60kW PA System to go along with it (this is usually used for live music and stuff on the stage).

 

Me and a friend who also worked there had a few hours spare so plugged his Xbox into the projector, we subsequently decided it was awesome playing games on a massive projector screen and wanted to explore the idea of running a gaming night.

 

Our concept at the moment...

 

Have 80 'Competitor Seats' on the Sofas, this will be something like £8-12/Person. These will be for people competing in that nights competition. There are also 200 ish seats at the back which spectators can sit in, we will probably sell these for £1.50-4.50. There will be space for mech stands or sponsor areas and we have multiple additional breakout rooms if we wanted to put other things in them (eg VR experience or demos from sponsors) There is also a bar and kitchen that can serve food so we are sorted from that end of things as this would likely be a 3pm to midnight type of affair.

 

The competitors would compete either in teams of 2 or individually in different game types. For examples, 2v2 on CoD, fastest time to do 'xyz' in a game etc.

 

What I'm here to ask is, do people like this concept and what ideas do you have for it?

[Slottr]

If any venue did this where I lived I would definitely be there.

 

I already head to video game bars every couple weeks and those are so much fun.

[emosun]

I think i'd be really hard to find 80 people all in the same location that all know how to play the same game competitively

[oliverguy]

Just now, Slottr said:

If any venue did this where I lived I would definitely be there.

 

I already head to video game bars every couple weeks and those are so much fun.

Unfortuatly we are quite a trip away from Canada...

 

Whats a gaming bar? Never heard of this before, is it essentially a room full of PCs, like a LAN party but with the PCs being permenant?

[Slottr]

Just now, emosun said:

I think i'd be really hard to find 80 people all in the same location that all know how to play the same game competitively

You'd be -very- surprised 

[oliverguy]

1 minute ago, emosun said:

I think i'd be really hard to find 80 people all in the same location that all know how to play the same game competitively

I think it depends on the level, locally there are probably loads of people who are 'good enough' to want or feel they could enter a competition. Or at least that was my thinking.

[Slottr]

1 minute ago, oliverguy said:

Unfortuatly we are quite a trip away from Canada...

 

Whats a gaming bar? Never heard of this before, is it essentially a room full of PCs, like a LAN party but with the PCs being permenant?

The bar we usually go to is about the same layout as a normal bar, but each table has a mounted console from an NES to a PS4, they're working on getting gaming PC's. So we go there, play Mario Party and stuff like that while having a drink.

[emosun]

1 minute ago, Slottr said:

You'd be -very- surprised 

well i'm sure everyone in my town knows how to play pong by now lol

[Howitz]

Hookers

[Slottr]

Just now, emosun said:

well i'm sure everyone in my town knows how to play pong by now lol

I guess it does depend on where ya live, gotta have demand..

 

I live in a mid tier city with about 200,000 people and theres a HUGE community for CSGO, Smash, Rocket League, etc. Its kinda insane for the size we are

[oliverguy]

2 minutes ago, Slottr said:

The bar we usually go to is about the same layout as a normal bar, but each table has amounted console from an NES to a PS4, they're working on getting gaming PC's. So we go there, play Mario Party and stuff like that while having a drink.

We have a large bar area, we could also do this. Thanks!

[emosun]

1 minute ago, oliverguy said:

I think it depends on the level, locally there are probably loads of people who are 'good enough' to want or feel they could enter a competition. Or at least that was my thinking.

well it's not just that , those 80 people must 

 

know how to play the game

know how to play it well enough to feel that they can compete

live nearby or are willing to travel to you

can play on that specific date in time

and WANT to go to competition

 

it's a lot of asks these days

[oliverguy]

5 hours ago, Howitz said:

Hookers

Cant belive i over looked this!

 

5 hours ago, Slottr said:

I guess it does depend on where ya live, gotta have demand..

 

I live in a mid tier city with about 200,000 people and theres a HUGE community for CSGO, Smash, Rocket League, etc. Its kinda insane for the size we are

Theres about 50k people within 15 mins of the venue and 250-500k within 30m to 1hr

 

5 hours ago, emosun said:

well it's not just that , those 80 people must 

 

know how to play the game

know how to play it well enough to feel that they can compete

live nearby or are willing to travel to you

can play on that specific date in time

and WANT to go to competition

 

it's a lot of asks these days

I suppose those are good points, I'll keep them in mind

[Slottr]

2 minutes ago, oliverguy said:

Theres about 50k people within 15 mins of the venue and 250-500k within 30m to 1hr

If theres nothing else like it around you, i'm sure you'll have fair business.

[Crunchy Dragon]

11 minutes ago, emosun said:

I think i'd be really hard to find 80 people all in the same location that all know how to play the same game competitively

How about here, for example?

[aezakmi]

18 minutes ago, Howitz said:

Hookers

yeah but the hookers should be placed in front of the computers/consoles acting like they're playing games while a pro dude actually plays the games behind the scenes and that's what the public will be watching in the screens

 

like twitch.tv streamers but live

[Mooshi]

I'd stick with more approachable games like Mario Party, Kart and Smash Bros vs something like console FPS.

[oliverguy]

Just now, Mooshi said:

I'd stick with more approachable games like Mario Party, Kart and Smash Bros vs something like console FPS.

Yeah, I think we probably will actually. It also makes it more open to kids as we as a venue couldnt let them play games they arent old enough to buy. And as we all know kids have way to much disposable income

[Blasteque]

1 minute ago, Mooshi said:

I'd stick with more approachable games like Mario Party, Kart and Smash Bros vs something like console FPS.

Yeah, I think an FPS would have to much dwell time.  Shorter game cycles would be preferred.

 

You will also want a big whiteboard (or blackboard)  to record the standings and tournament ladder.

[Zando_]

43 minutes ago, Slottr said:

You'd be -very- surprised 

Plus it's only 8-12 quid so you could just go try your luck for the lolz without too much of an oof to the wallet. 

[oliverguy]

4 hours ago, Blasteque said:

Yeah, I think an FPS would have to much dwell time.  Shorter game cycles would be preferred.

 

You will also want a big whiteboard (or blackboard)  to record the standings and tournament ladder.

Well since we already have a large screen we were thinking just use that, we have a video switcher we can use and I have a reasonable idea of how we'd go about making some graphics

 

4 hours ago, Zando Bob said:

Plus it's only 8-12 quid so you could just go try your luck for the lolz without too much of an oof to the wallet. 

Yea this was also why we wanted to keep it at a low cost, about a tenner + a bit for food and drinks for a night out playing and watching people play video games with the potential to win a £50 steam voucher or whatever seems like a fair deal

[Arika]

2 hours ago, emosun said:

 

know how to play the game

know how to play it well enough to feel that they can compete

live nearby or are willing to travel to you

can play on that specific date in time

and WANT to go to competition

To add to this,

 

they also need to be willing to actually go out at all. i know so many people that will say "yeah, it's a great idea, i wouldn't go though" because the people that would be most interested in something like this are going to be more often than not, introverted or have some form of social anxiety. Plus they also have to be willing to pay the entry fee.

 

Also Deodorant is mandatory!

[Guest]

The smartest option is probably guitar hero with all 4 guys. Everyone can only play 1 song. 

[wasab]

On 8/24/2018 at 4:07 PM, oliverguy said:

Hi

 

So, I work at a local music/events venue, and one of the things we do is cinema screenings. Because of this, we have a large venue Christie projector and a massive 24ft (ish) screen. We also have a huge 60kW PA System to go along with it (this is usually used for live music and stuff on the stage).

 

Me and a friend who also worked there had a few hours spare so plugged his Xbox into the projector, we subsequently decided it was awesome playing games on a massive projector screen and wanted to explore the idea of running a gaming night.

 

Our concept at the moment...

 

Have 80 'Competitor Seats' on the Sofas, this will be something like £8-12/Person. These will be for people competing in that nights competition. There are also 200 ish seats at the back which spectators can sit in, we will probably sell these for £1.50-4.50. There will be space for mech stands or sponsor areas and we have multiple additional breakout rooms if we wanted to put other things in them (eg VR experience or demos from sponsors) There is also a bar and kitchen that can serve food so we are sorted from that end of things as this would likely be a 3pm to midnight type of affair.

 

The competitors would compete either in teams of 2 or individually in different game types. For examples, 2v2 on CoD, fastest time to do 'xyz' in a game etc.

 

What I'm here to ask is, do people like this concept and what ideas do you have for it?

I need food and porn. 

[voiha]

On 8/24/2018 at 11:17 PM, oliverguy said:

On 8/24/2018 at 11:15 PM, Howitz said:

Hookers

Cant belive i over looked this!

No need of hookers if there's E-hoes. Just look around typically they hide as "normal gaming girls", but they are ready to f#ck only if you have the coin or you're especially good into a game.