Well folks, it’s (almost) November 13th and that means the event is officially over. Thanks to everyone who participated and helped signal boost the announcement posts!
Now I’d like to take some time to go through what I thought went well with the event and what didn’t. Hopefully this will help future event-planners plan their events. Feel free to reply or send in an ask or direct message me with your thoughts too, I’d love to hear from you.
Impel Hell as a location was a hit. I based it on the circles of hell from Dante’s Inferno, and despite most of the areas being dangerous, people RP’d in almost all of them. The combat pit and beast kennels were especially popular.
The one snag with Impel Hell was that people tended to get it confused with Impel Down and/or not realize that it was an abandoned prison with no actual prisoners. That’s my bad. I wanted to choose a name with ‘Impel’ in it to show that Impel Hell is Impel Down’s predecessor, but that made things too confusing. I also should’ve made it more obvious that Impel Hell is abandoned.
So yes. Overall, Impel Hell was a good RP location.
The bingo games were completely ignored. By that I mean that out of the 20-30 people who came to the event, literally no one even attempted bingo. I’m not even sure if anyone looked at the cards.
To be honest, that really stung. The bulk of the work I put into the event was making those bingo cards, and I really thought the game had potential. I pictured the bingo games as a sort of Inktober for the art blogs and RPtober for the non-art blogs.
I don’t know why this flopped. Maybe I was competing for artists’ time with Inktober, or maybe having to post RPs publicly was too much of an annoyance, or maybe it’s something else that I’ll never think of. If you have an opinion on the bingo games, please let me know (even if it’s anonymously).
Sadly, bingo being a flop hurt the event in a lot of ways. I scheduled a month for the event because filling the artblog bingo card would be about as much work as Inktober. But since frankly no one cared, the event went on for longer than people were interested in RPing for.
Also, the bingo games were designed in part to encourage people posting their art and RPs to tumblr instead of keeping everything private on Discord. But without any interest in the bingo game, there was nothing to really get people to move their RPs to tumblr, and so every single RP that happened is on Discord and probably staying there. My apologies to everyone who wasn’t participating but wanted to see the RPs.
Well… there we go. Impel Hell was a good location. The bingo game was the floppiest of flops. I guess the takeaway here is to focus on the event location.
It’d be nice to find a way to avoid Discord-based events keeping RPs private, but bingo was not that way. Maybe someone else can crack the code in the future.
Thanks for reading, everyone.
