Hey everyone - In case you missed it, the art has just been revealed,
and the event has officially begun!

Thanks-
Andy

--- In gamechef@yahoogroups.com, "J. Andrew Kitkowski" <nekosith@...>
wrote:
>
> Hi all, just a warm-up note: The Game Designer portion of the 2008
> Game Chef/Artists First event will begin this Friday. Most likely that
> time will be "Friday Evening" (EST time). We will post an announcement
> here when the final "rules constraints" and the like are posted.
>
> The event will run from Friday, April 18th to Sunday, April 27th. The
> end time on Sunday will be set synchronously with the start time on
> Friday.
>
> For now, the general event rules, as always, are posted on the main
> rule page:
>
> http://game-chef.com/rules.shtml
>
> If you have rules questions, feel free to ask in the forums:
>
> http://www.game-chef.com/af2008/
>
> Just FYI, we have about 30 sets of art submissions.
> There are currently over 110 people signed up to design a game, "sight
> unseen". Comparitively, last year we had about 50 people sign up
> before the contest began "sight unseen", and that quickly grew to over
> 100 once the design constraints were posted. This year it looks like
> we'll have about 20-30% more participation than last year.
>
> And just like last year, you don't have to register or anything now,
> you can wait until you are ready to jump in. But once you take the
> plunge, there will be a "tap in" thread (to announce that you're
> officially in, so that we can assign you to a feedback group).
>
> Thanks. The next announcement will be the announcement of the
> beginning of the contest!
>
> -Andy
>