Mark your calendar!

Go Play NW is going back to it’s roots. We have confirmed Seattle University as the location for Go Play NW 2012. It’s the same location as the first Go Play NW back in 2007, but we won’t be in the same rooms. Seattle U has a whole range of new spaces for events. The con will be held Friday, June 29 – Sunday July 1, 2012.

Going back to Seattle U has some great benefits for us. First of all, we’ll have overnight rooms available on-site at a very reasonable price in the same building where we’ll be gaming. We’ve got tons of space to game and some really cool spaces to work with. We’ll be announcing more details in the next few weeks and registration will open up in February.

See you at Go Play!

Hey, just want to remind you that we’d love to see your photos from this year’s Go Play NW (or even from past years if you’ve got some).

If you’re on Flickr, we have a Flickr group for Go Play NW! Please add your photos to this group:

http://www.flickr.com/groups/goplaynw/

And if you could tag them something like “Go Play NW 2011″ (or “GPNW2011″, “goplaynw2011″), everyone can find them on a search and distinguish from previous years. That’d be nice, but it’s not necessary to do that in order to add your photos to the group.

If you’re on Facebook, you can add a link to your photos on the official Go Play NW Page.

And wherever you’re posting your photos (maybe on that newfangled Google+), we’d really love for you to tell us by posting in the Photos topic in the Afterglow: The Good, The Bad & The Awesome forum right here on our site.

Thanks much! Looking forward to seeing them!

On behalf of this year’s Go Play NW team—Tony Dowler, John Powell, and myself—I just want to say thank you to everyone for another fantastic year! Thanks to Brandon Amancio, this year’s catering czar, for stepping up to choose a caterer and make all the arrangements for the Friday Night Feast. Thanks to John Harper for once again providing an awesome t-shirt design and managing the production. Thanks to Ben Robbins for being our webmaster and offering some good planning advice. Thanks to everyone who stepped forward to offer help whenever it was needed.

And thanks to all of you who came out this weekend, whether across town or across the nation, whether for the first time or the fifth (or in-between), to play games and have fun. You bring the awesome; we just facilitate it. We hope to see all of you again next year!

I’m just going to flat-out steal Ben’s post from last year, because it works. But updating the links, of course. We’ve put up two new forums for post-GPNW basking:

Afterglow: What We Played—Talk about what you played, and reconnect with everyone you played with. Making separate threads for each game is good, even if there’s very little in them. That way other people in the same game can come along and add their two cents, and folks who want to learn more about your game can jump in and ask questions.

Afterglow: The Good, The Bad & The Awesome—Did you have fun? This is the place for all your post-event reflections and feedback. Tell us what we did right and what we did wrong, so future events can be even better, or just come bask in the afterglow…

There’s Go Play NW 2011 talk all over the intersphere. We can’t keep track of it all! If you are posting elsewhere (other forums, blogs, whatever), drop a link in the forums so other Go Play Nor’westers can find it. If you wrote game summaries, you can copy-paste into threads here, link to those discussions, whatever you want. Oh, and post links to your photos too, so everyone can see.

John kindly took the few extra minutes I did not to make a modified Seattle Center map highlighting where the Northwest Rooms are.

Northwest Rooms at Seattle Center

Thanks, John! See you all there!