(Eek! I wrote this a few nights ago but forgot to set it to auto-post. So it’s a bit late. My bad!) This past weekend was Gamestorm 2012, which I like to call “Portland’s Annual Gaming Convention in Vancouver.” You can read about the convention in my post history and on its own website, so…
A fine read just got posted over at Gamers with Jobs, and it echoes my own beliefs on the dearth of human interactivity at PAX. The problem is that PAX brings together people who think they share the same passion, who believe they are all part of a collective culture that they have defined individually.…
For part two of my look at my PAX 2010 experiences, I’m going to mainly focus on tabletop gaming, and some deeper observations about the convention at a meta level. The Tabletop Gaming Experience In stark contrast to the Big Media Sensations of the Expo Hall and its surrounding environs, the tabletop gaming sections were…
Last weekend Three weekends ago (this has taken longer to write than I initially expected), I attended the gargantuan beast of a convention that is the Penny Arcade Expo, or simply PAX. To use an adjective some feel is watered down by internet overuse, the convention was quite Epic. Not as Epic as last year’s…
This past Gamestorm, Jake Richmond and I won second place in a design contest. The contest was a “Junk Drawer Design War” – the organizer brought six identical bins filled with identical parts, most of which were salvaged from other board games. Each team of contestants had an hour (or two? i don’t remember) to…
(cue the slow bass drum and Mr. movie Guy) Wisconsin. 2009. Early Summer… A boy who struggles to quell his inner sins and reach a more glorious light… A girl who bears his child, born from a love that can never be… An athlete who cannot deny the truth of his Self… An outcast who…