GenCon Report Part I

I got back from GenCon last night. It was my first, and I think I took it to be a learning experience.

Initial impressions:

• Damn. This thing is huge.
• I kept feeling like I was probably in the room with people I knew online… but I didn’t know who they were…
• There needs to be a Beginner’s Guide to GenCon. It isn’t obvious how to get involved in, you know, actual gaming other than demos.
• The Ennies were pretty classy. I got to hang out with Zach.
• People gave me free stuff. Free stuff is cool.
• The game demos were cool, but none of them jumped out at me as must-buys.
• I spent some money, but not as much as I might have feared.
• Angela and Grace were in the art show – which meant they couldn’t really do anything but hang out in the exhibition hall. They did OK – not great, but it was a really good learning experience for them. Angela sold a decent number of creepy eye boxes.