I will have to consult the rest of my team's thoughts, opinions, and takeaways to give the best answer...but I thought the expo was a great success! I even had a few people asking where they could donate on the spot! That was not the norm of course, but we had our fair share of interest. Perhaps not surprisingly we were the only strategy game there, which gave us our own niche. One thing was clear, we need to continue working on our demo before we think about another funding campaign. Despite a very simple demo I felt like it was very well received, and I was happy to run out of brochures. I have attached a few pics taken after initial setup before the expo. You may notice that there is no computer on our table, but that was only because it had not arrived yet. Once our team gets some time, I hope we have some other pics of interest to share. It will be a few days to see what further rewards may be received from this, but we made some additional contacts too. In short this was good exposure...and quite frankly I thought it was fun.
Before I go further, I want to publicly thank my team for taking a very active role in manning the booth and helping to bring this all together. Unfortunately I had other responsibilities that prevented my full participation, but my team had my back!
Our next step is for the team to meet and decide our next course of action.
Our booth had our 2 new "posters", various different simple ads on regular sized paper, reference material (from WWII field manuals), spreadsheets displaying some of the raw game data for weapons and vehicles, a concept binder, brochures, an old steel US helmet (that I wore most of the time I was there), and an 18x24-inch portion of a WWII topo map with 15mm Flames of War figures on the map for a hands-on concept of the basic game concept (I had a couple M4's, M10's, a couple of trucks, a jeep, and infantry of course).