No More Sweden

The time for No More Sweden is closing up fast, we’ve been getting some questions about practicalities lately, so here’s a post to clear those up:

There will be wireless internet available. But NO cabled access. Make sure you’ve got a wifi-dongle or something.

We’ll try to arrange for as many power outlets as we can, but don’t expect anything more than one outlet per person. So bring enough power strips to cover all your needs, if you have a few extra outlets to spare, that would be greatly appreciated.

You can drink alcohol at the venue, but there are people working and possibly bringing in customers in the same building, so keep it sensible.

The venue is at ground floor and has large windows to the street, there are blinds, but we’ve been recommended not to leave any valuables there as they’ve had some problems with breakins during the night. But this is assuming we’re not there, and I suspect we will be. 😉

Update: My phone number (martin) is +46706034762 give me a call if you can’t find the venue, are lost or anything like that.

If you have any more questions, do post them in the comments and I will update this post accordingly.

Here’s the complete list of attendees, all 38. Time to get excited.

Name	Nick	Country	Website
Anders Ekermo	Saint		http://tankar.ekermo.se
Anders Falk
Andreas Jörgensen	Hideous		http://hideou.se/
Andreas Zecher	Pixelate	Switzerland	http://www.pixelate.de
Bernhard Schulenburg	Bernie	Germany	http://bushghost.blogspot.com
Daniel Kaplan	DanielKaplan		http://www.ludosity.com/
Daniel Remar	Spiff / Ultimortal		http://www.remar.se/daniel/
Daniel Starck	dastarck		http://dastarck.com
Daniel Tabar	Data	USA	http://www.datarealms.com
Doug Wilson (and 3 friends)
Erik Svedäng			http://eriksvedang.wordpress.com/
Goksel Goktas	Decipher
Gustav Jansson	sirGustav		http://sirgustav.wordpress.com/
Henrik Flink			http://www.blackdropstudios.com
Ian Lundbom	yttrekollo / Trullz		http://forums.tigsource.com/(…)
Ido Yehieli	tametick	Austria	http://tametick.com/
Jens Bergsten	jeb		http://www.oxeyegames.com/
Joel Nyström	reallyjoel		http://ludosity.com
Jon Nyström	Jon
Jonas Pettersson	TheSpaceMan		http://spacedev.wordpress.com
Jonatan Söderström	cactus	Africa	http://tinyurl.com/l6f64u
Kian Bashiri
Magnus Jönsson	Zerom		http://www.zeropointgameplay.com
Markus Persson	Notch		http://www.mojang.com/notch/
Martin Jonasson	grapefrukt		http://prototyprally.com/
Michael Todd		Canada	http://www.spyeart.com
Mårten Brüggemann
Nicklas Nygren	Nifflas		http://nifflas.ni2.se/
Olle Lundahl	Hallonduell		http://spelgrim.com
Peter Lübeck			http://blackdropstudios.com
Petri Purho	gummikana	Finland	http://www.kloonigames.com/
Pontus Hammarberg	Kinten		http://oxeyegames.com
Richard Olsson			http://riol.se
Tommy Preger	gum
Yann van der Cruyssen

If you are an elite IRC idler and longs for another channel to lurk in, #nomoresweden at EsperNet may be the choice of your day. The channel was previously at Freenode, but EsperNet is the same network as TIGSource‘s IRC channel (#tigirc), so we moved there.

For Twitter users you can also use the #nomoresweden tag on your No More Sweden-related tweets. I know, that’s 13 letters of the treasured 140, but #nms could possibly cause confusion with other topics on the internets. And please post your Twitter accounts in the comments!

Here’s the preliminary schedule for No More Sweden 2009!

Wednesday, July 15

• 18:00 – Warmup evening for early birds! (we’re NOT at MINC, give Martin a call to find us)

Thursday, July 16

• 09:00 – NMS officially begins
• 13:00 – Start collecting words for the main competition (all day)
• 16:00 – One-hour creative mini-compo
• 17:00 – Testing and judging
• 18:00 – Food break
• 19:30 – Main competition categories are revealed, teams are formed
• 20:00 – Words are distributed, main competition begins

Friday, July 17

• All day – Main competition
• 18:00 – Food break

Saturday, July 18

• 14:00 – Main competition ends, playtesting begins
• 16:00 – Lecture
• 16.00 – Playtesting and Food break
• 18:00 – Main competition voting and cheering
• Once we’re done – Quick cleanup
• Around 21:00 – Party time at Martins place.
• Later – We go to Debaser or any other place that strikes your fancy.

Sunday, July 19

• Afternoon 13.00 to 15.00 – Clean thy shit up. There’s no guarantee there will be anyone here to let you in before or after these hours.
• Sometime – NMS 2009 ends

Main Competition Rules

• The competition is 40 hours long (albeit much night time)
• Any preparations and tools are allowed
• You may go solo or team up with another fox/stallion
• You will receive 3 words/topics and should try to include at least two of them in your game
• You may trade words with other teams
• There will be 6 prize categories + one category for “Best Experience”
• The prizes in all categories are insane cheering