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Pax East Panel – A Reverse Q&A with the Harmonix Community Team

The Harmonix Community Team spends a good part of their day answering questions about Rock Band and Dance Central on forums, in emails and on camera... but what happens when the tables are turned and they're given free reign to question a captive audience in a PAX panel? Part focus group and part interrogation, this panel turns the traditional notion of a Q&A on its head, giving community members the opportunity to answer questions submitted by developers.

You may be wonder: "What kind of questions will be asked?" and "Do attendees answer individually or as a collective?" and "Will this be a disaster?" Continue to wonder, because the Harmonix folks aren't dishing out any answers, only questions.

Panelists include:

  • Aaron Trites [Community Manager Manager, Harmonix Music]
  • Allison Thresher [Junior Choreo Designer, Harmonix Music]
  • Eric Pope [Community Manager, Harmonix Music]
  • John Veneron [Associate Producer, Harmonix Music]
  • Jason Brau [Community Moderator, Harmonix Community Member]


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This panel was fantastic. My man Fred is the "what are we talking about" at 11:49. Thanks for posting this. The panel was very informative and hilarious. oh and fix your S*it di*kbags!! HAHAHAHA

Hi Luigi - I don't know if someone recorded that specific session, but James, Arne, and I did an IGDA workshop on the same topic the next morning. We covered much of the same material and there were quite a few folks w/recorders in hand at that session. If I find either I'll be sure to tweet out a link.

Hey cool, my voice doesn't sound as obnoxious there as I expected. Do you know if anybody recorded the "Roads to Becoming a Community Manager" panel that Thrasher was in? I was sad to miss that one. And Sean Baptiste's panel, by the way - Obi-wan

Fascinating and hilarious. I second the request to add it to the Podcast feed. I'd like to finish listening to it away from my computer.

Hilarious. :)

Missed the panel but this reminded me of something i wanted to ask you. One of the reasons I don't use Battles more is that I am on PS3 but a lot of my friends are on XBOX.If a battle is created on rockband.com, what prevents HMX from publishing it to all my friends regardless of platform?

thank you, i missed your panel, which was a huge disappointment to me. but now that disappointment has been abated!