Gen Con Indy (53): Summon Con, 20/20 Trample. Tap two fat fingers to post.

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CellBlock: Oct 6, 2005; It just don't stop.

OB_Juan posted:

Gencon Hype! Will this be the year I finally ~~get~~remember to do the Battletech pods? Will I survive Shots Wednesday? Is this the year I leave my tickets at home, and get Turbo Hosed? Who knows!

Probably not. I always say I'm going to try the pods, and then I'm bummed out by how outdated they are.

Starship simulators are where it's at now. (And there are like half a dozen different ones; don't pay a bunch of money for Artemis; do Empty Epsilon or Greenemyst or whatever the gently caress they're all called now.)

# ¿ Jan 13, 2020 17:41

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# ¿ Apr 28, 2024 04:25

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nesbit37 posted:

Are the current simulators getting any better? It's been 4 years or so since I played Artemis at home or a con. Things at the time felt like they were stagnating.

Probably not, but maybe? I just think an hour or whatever of farting around in space and perhaps crashing into a planet is better than like 15 minutes in the battletech pods.

If you had like a VR bee simulator, you'd probably get everyone in the GroupMe to come play it. Just sayin'

# ¿ Jan 13, 2020 19:27

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nesbit37 posted:

Are there VR bridge simulators or something else? Part of the space I run at this university is a VR lab for up to 12 simultaneous users, would love to use a bridge simulator or something else in there.

As far as I've ever seen, the bridge simulators are all non-VR, but usually with touchscreen PCs, and sometimes with other immersive features, like lighting that changes colors and sound systems.

Star Trek: Bridge Crew just came out on Oculus Quest, so someone might set up an area of that (since it wouldn't need a bunch of PCs or PS4s).

# ¿ Jan 13, 2020 21:56

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Nemesis Of Moles posted:

Yeah you can do this

Someone in our group got a 12:50ish slot, so fingers crossed there.

I think this year I'm gonna skip running a public game. I'll still do a goon game mind. I sorta kinda had this idea for running a Design A Game In An Hour workshop that might be fun, anyone have any experience running larger events like that? I've done it outside of cons. How does charging for events work? All of my games are always functionally free. Do I get that money somehow, does it go toward comping my badge in some way?

I�m not 100% on this, but there�s a Gen Con minimum of $2 per attendee per 2 hour block, but you can add to that and pocket the difference. (Games with take home stuff like MtG sealed/draft events or miniature paint-and-take, and games where there�s a lot of extra stuff going on like Call of Cthulhu games with music and props and whatnot often charge extra.). Once your event gets to be over $20/2 hours, the con starts taking a bigger cut.

You can get a comped badge for 70 player-hours of events.

For example, you could run your seminar for three hours (maybe like an hour of teaching, then an hour to design the games, and an hour to have everyone show off their stuff. Gen Con would charge attendees $4, and you add up to about $30 without them taking more. If it was open to more than 23 people, that would be at least 70 player-hours and you�d get a badge.

# ¿ Feb 9, 2020 21:22

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"People" aren't really worried about it closing, but the people in the Gen Con facebook groups and message boards are, because these are the people who spend the entire year talking to each other about going to Gen Con, and so it's all they have.

(Yeah, the GroupMe stays open all year round, but we're mostly not talking about Gen Con the whole time. Just Beastfucker and Malort, which are things tangentially related to Gen Con.)

# ¿ Mar 16, 2020 15:44

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Con or not, I hope they still send badges. I think it'll be fun to have a badge for the convention that never happened. (Sort of like tickets for cancelled concerts or things like that.)

My badge from 2012 is just cardstock; it shouldn't be too big of an expense to print them out for people that want them. (I want them.)

I guess I could buy merch from Offworld Designs, but it's not the same.

# ¿ Apr 21, 2020 20:33

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Nemesis Of Moles posted:

only one entrance in and one exit out of every location, staffed by "more police control" and over 400,000 hand sanitizer dispensers, plus like half a million masks? love it, excellent stuff

I mean, it�s basically PAX, and people love that poo poo for some reason.

# ¿ May 14, 2020 21:54

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# ¿ Apr 28, 2024 04:25

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Deviant posted:

as the unofficial official self-appointed coordinator of virtual goon-gen-goon-gencon, i hereby demand:

post here if you would play in pangea ultima's games. i am sure they can be filled/made hilarious/shatpost upon by the very posters of this thread if pangea ultima would like to do that.

no, you don't get to know what the games are in advance.

(there are other virtual goon gen goon gencon events planned too, watch this space)

I probably would. My regular board gaming group has been meeting in Discord at our usual meetup time and playing games on like boardgamearena and yucata.de, and I requested the days that would have been Thursday and Friday of Gen Con off of work, so if I'm not allowed to hang out at my friends' house and game there (and possibly even if I am, because when we go to Gen Con, I don't only do events with them, so they can manage without me for a couple hours), I'd do some online goon gaming.

# ¿ Jun 22, 2020 20:35

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