Later today, I’m off to TAGIE (the Toy and Game Inventor Expo) held down at Navy Pier in Chicago. Assuming rush-hour traffic doesn’t devour me alive, I should be on my first panel at 11 AM on “Design and Development,” moderated by the ever-excellent Mike Gray. Tomorrow, I have two panels. The first, “Online and Interactive,” starts at 10 AM, …
The Emperor’s Weekend
My son Marty has the titular role in the KFAD production of The Emperor’s New Clothes. The play runs this Friday and Saturday at 7 PM and Sunday at 2 PM at the First Presbyterian Church in Beloit. If you live in the area, come on out and join us in watching Marty parade around stage in his long johns!
TAGIE Awards Voting Open
The voting is open for this year’s TAGIE Awards, and since the award ceremony is on Friday night, I assume that they’ll have to close the voting soon. For all my game industry friends out there, the Game of the Year nominees are strong. They include Reiner Knizia, Peggy Brown, and Arne Lauwers. Be sure to stop by the website …
Game of Choice Up Now
“Game of Choice,” my latest column for the High Adventure section of The Escapist, is up and ready for you to enjoy. In it, I write about how I decided to run my son Marty’s first at-home RPG using Dungeons & Dragons Fourth Edition. There are lots of great RPGs out there, and I’d guess that Marty will get around …
TAGIE and ChiTAG
I’ve been asked to be a speaker again at this year’s Toy and Game Inventor Expo (TAGIE). I had to back out at the last second last year due to a family illness, but I had a great time at the show the year before. The convention is held on Navy Pier in downtown Chicago on November 19 and 20. …
Ann on TV
My wife Ann is a school social worker for the School District of Janesville, Wisconsin. Her main job is to serve as the homeless student liaison for the district. In this role, she’s spoken at conferences across the country, and just recently she’s been on local television twice. Tonight, she also hauled herself out of her sickbed to appear on …
Be an Angry Robot
My friends (and publishers) at Angry Robot have helpfully provided a solution for all your Halloween costuming needs: the Angry Robot mask. Just print, cut, strap (or staple, glue, weld, etc.), and you’re all set to scare the simpering souls out of your fleshy, free-willed friends. Better yet, the Angry Robots promise the nebulous award of “prizes” for the best …
BNW Proof-of-Concept Trailer Online Now
Late Saturday/early Sunday, the folks at Reactor 88 Studios launched a new website for Matt Forbeck’s Brave New World: Revolution.* This includes the proof-of-concept trailer that debuted at Gen Con 2009 and also was shown at Geek.Kon this past weekend. If you missed those events, this is your first chance to see it in all its explodey glory, so be …
Weekend = Halloween Party and Geek.Kon
I had a jam-packed weekend. I started off by taking Ann down to the High Voltage Software Halloween party in Hoffman Estates on Friday night. This is held in a motion-capture studio–essentially a wide-open warehouse–filled with dozens of wildly creative people competing to come up with the best costume. Ann went as a geisha girl–a.k.a. ninja momma–while I broke out …
Bring on Geek.Kon!
This weekend, you can find me at Geek.Kon, the all-geek-matters convention in Madison, Wisconsin. I’m one of the guests of honor, along with Bill Bodden, Aaron Pavao, Kyle Herbert, Chad Corrie, Sandeep Parikh, and reps from Raven Software. I’ll be wandering around for a good part of the show, but my confirmed schedule includes “Gaming Publishing” at 1 PM on …