Hey, we’ll have an event guide PDF available later this evening, but here are some of the quick important details now:

• Check in for Go Play NW will be at Campion Hall on the Seattle University campus. The hall’s address for mapping purpose is 914 E Jefferson Street, but use the (north) entrance through the courtyard off E James Way.
• Parking is available in the Murphy Garage, accessed by a driveway off E James Way. Parking costs $5 per day; get a pass at the Campion Hall lobby desk.
• Your badges, WiFi passwords, and T-shirts (if you ordered one) will be at the Campion Hall lobby desk waiting for you.

See you tomorrow at Go Play NW 2017!

I am very excited to introduce our new volunteer coordinator, Ben Robbins! Ben is the designer of fine games such as Microscope, Kingdom, and Follow. He has also been organizing and facilitating Story Gamer meetups in the Seattle area for years. Go Play NW owes a significant portion of its success to Ben’s efforts in expanding the community and welcoming new members. So welcome, Ben!
In the past, the volunteer coordinator hasn’t really been involved in the organizing of Go Play NW. By bringing on a coordinator earlier in the process, we’re hoping to make things run more smoothly for everyone. Please let us know how we’re doing during the event and after with suggestions or feedback. You can contact us by email at info@goplaynw.org, or by speaking directly to any of the staff.
Also, a huge thank you to all our volunteers: past, present, and future. You are part of what makes this weekend awesome.

Don’t see something you want to play in a particular time slot? Never fear! At the start of each game slot, we gather everyone to organize pickup games — the infamous Donut.
Pickup games are a huge part of Go Play NW. Some people spend the whole con never scheduling a game in advance and just join games at the Donut.
If you want to jump in, just be there at the start time for the game slot and you’ll get in a game. We’ll have people combing the corridors to make sure no gamer gets left behind.
Want to facilitate a pickup game? We’d love you to! Just tell the person organizing the donut that you want to run a game and they’ll get you set up.
Happy gaming!

Hey folks,
We are well on our way to the biggest Go Play NW ever! The Go Play NW family has been steadily growing year by year. We’re very excited to be preparing for our biggest event ever.
Excited and a little scared!
It’s you, our community, who make Go Play NW great. That’s why we’re asking for some ambassadors to help make sure this Go Play is a success. Here’s what you can do to help:
Bring something to a donut.
Pick a slot and commit to offering a pick-up game. We’re always hungry for more facilitators in the donut.
Offer a game on the forums.
Forum activity has been a bit slow, so consider posting a game for players on the forum.
Meet people.
This year there will be more new people than ever before, so if you see someone new, introduce yourself.
Send us your feedback and suggestions.
Keep us in the loop. Tell the Go Play staff what works and what doesn’t. Ask questions. You can reach us at info@goplaynw.org.
Being a Go Play ambassador isn’t an official thing. Rather it’s a way of describing the good things we do when we get together to game. So join us in creating a fun community environment at Go Play NW 2017.

Go Play NW is about meeting friends and playing games. To help make that happen, we have a mixture of scheduled games and pick-up gaming in every slot. Since our focus is on gaming, we don’t have any panels or vendor rooms, though if you want to organize a formal meetup or panel, you’re welcome to do so.
Scheduled gaming occurs through our forums. If you’re wondering what games to bring, or if there’s a particular game you want to play, head over the Brainstorming forum. The Brainstorming forum is a good place for people who want to play the same games to meet.
Scheduled gaming is also organized through the forums. If you have a game you want to run or facilitate, consider posting it in the scheduling forum.
Pickup gaming occurs in every slot with an informal organizing session at the beginning of the slot. This is a time to offer games, find out what people are facilitating, and get involved.
Go Play NW runs on attendee participation. If you come ready to have fun and possibly offer to run or teach a game or two yourself, it makes the event better for everyone.
See you in July!

This is your last full day to reserve an overnight room for Go Play NW, so sign up now! This is also the last full day to get a Go Play NW 2017 T-shirt!
See you in July!

Game scheduling for Go Play NW 2017 is now open!
Go Play works best when we’ve got a strong slate of scheduled games to go along with our pickup gaming and the donut. Consider bringing some games and scheduling a slot or two on the forums.
Also, be sure to read the How to Schedule a Game post before you schedule.
Here’s the gaming slot schedule for 2017.
==FRIDAY==
Registration Opens: 1pm
FRI-01: 2pm – 5pm (3 hours)
Dinner time: 5pm – 7pm
Opening ceremonies and social hour: 7pm – 8pm
FRI-02:8pm – midnight (4 hours)
==SATURDAY==
SAT-01: 9am – noon  (3 hours)
Lunch: noon – 1pm (cafeteria is open 11:30-1pm)
SAT-02: 1:30pm – 5pm (3.5 hours)
Feast: 5pm – 7pm
SAT-03: 7pm – midnight (5 hours)
==SUNDAY==
SUN-01: 9am – noon (3 hours)
Lunch: noon – 1pm (cafeteria is open 11:30-1pm)
SUN-02: 1:30pm – 5:30 pm (4 hours)
Dinner: 5:30pm – 7pm
SUN-03: 7pm – 10pm (3 hours)

Go Play NW is less than one month away! As a reminder, room reservations and Tshirt sales close on June 15th. If you would like an overnight room for Go Play NW or a Go Play NW 2017 T-shirt, register now!

Go Play Tickets are now on Sale!

Tickets are now available for Go Play NW, July 7-9, 2017. We’ve got a few changes in the works this year, but first, here’s something that’s staying the same: membership prices will not go up this year. We’ve worked hard to keep Go Play NW as affordable as possible, and in that vein, Go Play memberships are will cost the same this year as last year. Room prices have risen slightly to meet increasing costs.

And another big change this year: the Go Play NW feast has been moved to Saturday. Why are we moving the feast? One of the biggest reasons is that our community is growing and changing. Every year we have more people coming to Go Play. More and more of those people are completely new to our community. That’s why we want to have the feast on Saturday, our biggest day in terms of attendance–to give everyone a chance to meet and get to know each other in an informal setting.

We will have more details on the schedule soon.

Go Play NW 2017 will take place Friday, July 7 – Sunday July 9, 2017 at Seattle University.
We’re looking forward to our biggest year yet! Every year new people come and join the Go Play NW community. When we first started, the organizers knew almost everybody at the convention. Today, Go Play NW spans communities of friends and gamers in multiple countries. So this year we are going to focus on how we make Go Play NW a more welcoming place for people who may never have attended or even heard of Go Play NW before. That doesn’t mean we’re making huge changes. This will still be the same convention our members love. What we are going to do is revisit how we run things and see where we can make it friendlier to first time attendees.