The time and place of this year’s Diana Jones Award ceremony have been set. If you are an adventure gaming industry professional who will be attending Gen Con, you are cordially invited. If you do not have the details yet, drop me an e-mail, and I’ll send you a note with everything you need to know to attend. Thanks! (Sorry, …
Diana Jones Award Shortlist Released
The title says it all. To sum up, here’s this year’s shortlist: The Canon Puncture podcast The Child’s Play charity The Come Out and Play festival Grey Ranks by Jason Morningstar (Bully Pulpit Games) The Open Design funding process and roleplaying game projects and its inventor Wolfgang Baur Second Person: Role-Playing and Story in Games and Playable Media edited by …
DJA Goes to The Great Pendragon Campaign
In the post-Gen Con madness, I never got around to posting this, so you may already know, but for those yet to hear: The 2007 Diana Jones Award for Excellence in Gaming has been given to The Great Pendragon Campaign, a role-playing game campaign book by Greg Stafford, published by White Wolf. The winner was announced at a ceremony packed …
Pre-Gen Con Goodies
Two of the books I’m looking forward to most at Gen Con are Hobby Games: The 100 Best and 40 Years of Gen Con. I had a tiny hand in each of them, just enough that I don’t have to pay for copies, but I’d be happy to hand over my cash for either. For the first, Jim Lowder collected …
Diana Jones Award 2007 Shortlist Announced
The Diana Jones Award committee is proud to announce this year’s shortlist for the award. Congratulations to all those people and products that made the shortlist!
Diana Jones Award Site Updated
The Diana Jones Award site got updated today. As usual, I didn’t arrange ahead of time for any photos to be taken. If anyone out there has any they’d like to share, I’d love to see them. Thanks!
DJA Goes to Irish Game Convention Charity Auctions
I’m just back from Gen Con and will report on it as soon as I recover. In the meantime, here’s the official press release about this year’s Diana Jones Award winner.
Diana Jones Award Party
Speaking of Gen Con, if you’re an industry professional and have yet to receive a notice about the Diana Jones Award ceremony at Gen Con, drop me an e-mail for the details. For the moment, just reserve some time late on Wednesday, August 9, to join your compadres in celebrating some of the best games of the year.
DJA Site Updated
Our able webmaster Peter Gifford of Universal Head just updated the Diana Jones Award website. The site now describes the 2006 shortlist in detail. By the way, if anyone in the gaming industry would care to co-sponsor the annual Diana Jones Award party and awards ceremony at Gen Con Indy this summer, be sure to ping me. If you’re an …
Diana Jones Award Shortlist Announced
The Diana Jones Award committee just announced the shortlist for this year’s awards. You can read the full release after the cut.