Assignment #8 Hector

Gamers Edge

As you may already know, my project is called Gamers Edge. It’s where gamers from all over the state can come together for a weekly competition. My ideal site would be somewhere downtown where many people can not only see what’s going on, but also can easily stop and join as well. I would love it to be where the painting of Andre the Giant is, but since that isn’t really possible; I would like to do this on the school campus. I would project the games on the wall of the Justice building outside. The reason why I would like to do this here are for several reasons. First, it is something I have easy access to. I’m sure that the school would be more than happy to help me with this and they love to support events that involve the entire community and not just our school. Second, it is easy to find and easy to get into. Lastly, I can bring the community surrounding my school better. I don’t really see any type of interaction in the community so this could definitely help. The way I want to do this is every Saturday the event will be held. The people who will use this project would be anyone and everyone who wants to. I am not making this event for just teens. I would love for families, boys and girls, and people from all ages to participate in this event. It would during the day until the early night. As for different times of the year, well for now the event itself would only be in the summer, as for the site itself, I am planning it to be used throughout the whole year if possible. The things that Downcity Design will build are a few things. Those things are:

· Benches

· Tables

· Stands for projector

· Box to keep Xbox, controllers, etc

· Tents/Roof

There might be other things, but I’m not sure yet. This project isn’t a necessarily long. In order to build all of this stuff, get some buzz, and all the items we need, it could take 2 to 3 weeks max. This will be maintained by me and any of the DCD kids that want to help. Money wise, I will be asking for players to pay so that I can pay the school for the electricity that I spend and buy games and things like that. I might even buy snacks and drinks if I make enough.

What inspired me to do this was the conversation in class. We talked about it and I thought it was a good idea so I decided to sort of take this project under my wing. Three ways this could intersect with my personal interest are first, I love playing video games. Second, I love playing with my friends. Third, I love showing off. If I could somehow do the three at the same time it would be awesome and that’s why I like this project. I get to play video games with my friends and go to show off the little skills I have. It’s what people call a win win… win. Three tangible items I will make that will contribute to the group are: A project proposal that I will show to most likely to the principal to my building and Doc the Director of the Met. The area we would have for the gamers to be at that could also be used by the Met students and surrounding community can use while Gamers Edge is not happening. The last thing would be the posters and fliers I would make to promote the event.