Behind the Booth: The making of... our booth.
TelltaleGames
Former Telltale Staff
PAX, the Penny Arcade Expo, is coming up this weekend, and we'll be there. In a booth.
PAX has quickly become our favorite show of the year. From the engaged show attendees who actually know who we are and play our games, to our now annual "Make a Scene with Telltale" panel, to what is probably the most cordial and generally awesome expo security force in the world (Seriously, last year they came by and gave us water and soft drinks on a regular basis. This is amazing.), PAX is my friend. Anyone who loves any type of gaming should probably go. You won't regret it.
Anyway, the booth! We have one this year, and it is ridiculous. Last week a few of us got together in a warehouse to try and put the booth together once, as a test. Fortunately, it looks great. Unfortunately, the fully assembled booth won't be something we can show you until PAX starts on Friday -- in the grand tradition of all Telltale trade show coverage, our camera totally failed the moment we got the booth all the way built, and started taking photos of nothing but blackness.
We documented the actual assembly process, and some of the art, though, and thought you might want to see it. So, without further ado, here are a bunch of pictures of us putting together some sort of crazy wood and aluminum contraption that will be our PAX booth.[readmore]
Working together: Emily and Doug bolt together the roof to one of the four piers that will support the booth and house the demo machines.
Pointing or touching or something: If Michelangelo built booths. I guess.
Lifting heavy things: Emily, Rachel (the designer of the booth), and Nick raise one of the four piers.
Demo-tastic: These platforms will support the screens, mice, and controllers for our six demo stations.
Sometimes my arms bend back: The middle of the booth is draped in some classy Telltale-red fabric.
Huge art! Pretend these are seven feet high.
A falcon! Some more mockups for the huge booth artwork.
Secret shame! Here's where the camera started to die, right when the whole thing was really coming together. As you can tell, though, it's looking cool.
The search for fact... not truth: The booth packs down into three custom-built crates, all of which look like they should really hold a haunted sarcophagus or haunted urn or something else that is haunted.
Defacing property: When you have a bunch of huge wooden crates, it's nearly impossible to resist spray painting some stenciled text on there.
Impossible to resist: This was also required.
That's it for now. We'll have a little more about PAX right before we head out at the end of the week, and we'll try to post some photos from the show, like we did at Comic-Con. Until then, enjoy those pictures! See you in Seattle.
Thanks to Marie Kare for taking most of these pictures!
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