Formatting posters for Gather Town:
Design your poster as if it were a normal poster in landscape orientation. Small preview images of posters will appear as users walk past poster stands. Users can enter a “private space” in front of each poster stand to view the full-size poster. Within each private space users can video chat with the presenter and/or other users in the same space (i.e. a mini “Zoom” call within Gather Town for each poster). The following images are required for Gather Town posters (borrowed from here; note that a flash talk video must also be submitted in order for you to present a poster on Gather Town):
- Poster in JPG or PNG format
- This is what participants will see when interacting with your poster presentation
- Maximum size is 3 MB
- Minimum width is 1,000 px
- Minimum height is 600 px
- Poster preview in JPG or PNG format
- This is the same image as above but resized for previews seen while walking around in Gather Town
To make your main poster:
- Powerpoint is recommended
- Select the “Design” tab
- Select the “slide size” icon and choose “custom slide size” from the dropdown menu
- Change width to 27 cm and height to 16 cm
- A pop-up will appear prompting you to make a selection; choose “Ensure fit”
- File > save. Name the same as your flash talk and save as JPG
To make your poster preview:
- Same as above, but change width to 13.5 cm and height to 8 cm
- Name the same as your flash talk but with “_preview” added to the end. Save as JPG
