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Pixel Plug & Play is on again this Tuesday! (13th of May)

Free entry, starting at 6pm! This will be fortnightly on Tuesday nights.

BYO setups encouraged! The more the merrier!!!

Address: 1279 North Rd, Huntingdale, VIC 3166

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Pixel Plug & Play is on again this Tuesday! (18th of March)

I'll be bringing all my setups which should cover most, if not all currently played FGs in Melbourne.

Free entry, starting at 6pm!

BYO setups encouraged!

Address: 1279 North Rd, Huntingdale, VIC 3166

Pixel Plug & Play is on again tomorrow night!

6pm start!

Free entry!

More details below!

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Pixel Plug & Play is on again this Tuesday!

FGC casuals meetup,
FREE ENTRY!
6pm start!

BYO setups encouraged! The more the merrier!

At Pixel Bar & Cafe.

Address: 1279 North Rd, Huntingdale, VIC, 3166

Following that you gotta account for attendee limits, venues can only fit so many people, so how to do you make it affordable for everyone and be able to run again next time?

It's a balancing act that can make or break an event.

Especially if people think that organisers are trying to profit.

Some basic venues could be as much as $200 an hour, yet alone a whole day.

You could be looking at $1000 Aud to start even planning a single day event and need to be sustainable.

Quick napkin math.
You need 100 people at $10 to show up just the venue alone.
Making that $20 halves that.

What most people are vaguely aware of but not explicitly is how absurdly expensive venue hire is.

Keeping costs down for entry requires even more people to show up regularly to break even.

Then, you have to account for pricing differences for NFP/FP orgs and individuals.

By default, current events that i have gone to and to my understanding work under the following:

Door/venue fee: pays toward venue hire fee. Anything extra pays for staffing/equipment hire, etc.

Game fee: purely game prize pot.

21st* of January

Pixel Plug & Play is on again tonight! (21th of January).

Free entry, starting at 6pm! This will be fortnightly on Tuesday nights.

BYO setups encouraged!

Hosted at Pixel Bar & Cafe!

Come down for Tuesday night FGC casuals all night!

IMO venue fee should be to cover the venue costs itself, and any game entry fees fuel the pot bonuses for the players (unless running to fundraise or something explicitly stated)

But it is interesting that the players factor in full cost, whereas organisers have to be able to run on venue only.

Improved production is something I'd love to see and dedicate time to, but it's all entirely out of pocket, and then there's the factor that people have to know how to use the equipment (not hard, but more time.)
What i would love to see is more orgs working together to collaborate and pool reources

I feel it depends on the venue and what you get out of it. It might feel terrible to pay $25 on paper might seem too much, but if the venue is real nice and convenient, I'd pay that for a bigger day with more happening.

More than likely an easier time yeah

Pixel no, as it's a bar, so naturally the venue is 18+, but for CCH it needs to be separated or facing away from the room at the very least.

A big reason is the games rating. If you have MK at an event, by default the event has to be 18+.

The venues are also required to enforce this. If they didn't have the rating or have a gore-free setting, this simply wouldn't be an issue.

Asking people to turn it down is easy enough, but venue acoustics play a huge part since the sound carries.

Ahhh yep yep, don't worry i struggle with this one too, but also a culprit since I wanna hear my game.

I actually didn't even know that was happening!

Little gatherings like this are awesome as it shows people are eager to put in the time to organise and plan.

Ranbats is a tricky one, the price is hard to justify for people but the price is more important than ever since they need to make up the venue cost.

Changing venue also makes things difficult, because the cost would only go up for everyone.

Genuine question for the AU FGC.

What do you enjoy most about locals?

When does an event become "to expensive" to go to?

How much are you comfortable to pay for a venue to play games with people?

What would you like to see improved in current events?

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We are on for our first event of 2025 tonight!

Come jam some games for the evening! Cya there!!!

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ANZ FGC Online Calendar:
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Hey Everyone!
Wondering what's happening in the ANZ FGC, and when?

Here are the ANZ FGC calendars linked below!

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Pixel Plug & Play starts again this Tuesday! (7th of January).

Free entry, starting at 6pm! This will be fortnightly on Tuesday nights.

BYO setups encouraged!

Hosted at Pixel Bar & Cafe!

Come down for Tuesday night FGC casuals all night!