I had the opportunity to meet a bunch of good folks recently at IKKicon, when we were running SHARD demos, who declared that we simply must take a drive up to Dallas to demo our game at Furry Fiesta on February 19th-21st (a local convention of the anthropomorphic fandom)...
Never one to ignore that kind of warmth and enthusiasm, I communicated with the con's organizers and ensured that we had a table we could demo at (we tried to get a dealer's table to sell our product at as well, but discovered that they had long ago sold out, merely five days after the Dealer's Den opened for table space! Wow!). Then, with several friends as company (including a few forum members, one of whom, Mulefoot, will be helping us with the editing and content creation of the Magic and Martial Arts book), we took the four-hour drive from Austin up highway I-35...
We couldn't stay as long as I usually stay for trade-shows and conventions, but since I wasn't setting up a dealer's table and manning it throughout, I had the chance to check out some of the seminar tracks available... Among the many there was a voice-over talk, a comic seminar, a fiction-writing discussion, and even a HAM radio-operator gathering... Who'd'a thunk it!
Anyway,...those with me helped re-label and lay out a handful of our company's fliers all around the con, and I had the chance to run a really great demo at 3:30 Saturday afternoon for six players (and several observer guests), a fun murder mystery with magic early on, some monsters, and eventual combat mayhem! I used the "Mine Inspection" adventure (found here in the forum under Downloads), as the basis for it, and a good time was had by all... From the response, I'm betting there will be a bunch more fans of SHARD out there after this, which makes me really happy...
I'd like to thank the folks that accompanied me for helping out and providing some great company and conversation...(and for driving...heh! :P). It really helps not feeling like a loner newbie at such conventions...
Next year I'll be contacting the convention super early to get a dealer's table! Wish us luck!
Scottie
Never one to ignore that kind of warmth and enthusiasm, I communicated with the con's organizers and ensured that we had a table we could demo at (we tried to get a dealer's table to sell our product at as well, but discovered that they had long ago sold out, merely five days after the Dealer's Den opened for table space! Wow!). Then, with several friends as company (including a few forum members, one of whom, Mulefoot, will be helping us with the editing and content creation of the Magic and Martial Arts book), we took the four-hour drive from Austin up highway I-35...
We couldn't stay as long as I usually stay for trade-shows and conventions, but since I wasn't setting up a dealer's table and manning it throughout, I had the chance to check out some of the seminar tracks available... Among the many there was a voice-over talk, a comic seminar, a fiction-writing discussion, and even a HAM radio-operator gathering... Who'd'a thunk it!
Anyway,...those with me helped re-label and lay out a handful of our company's fliers all around the con, and I had the chance to run a really great demo at 3:30 Saturday afternoon for six players (and several observer guests), a fun murder mystery with magic early on, some monsters, and eventual combat mayhem! I used the "Mine Inspection" adventure (found here in the forum under Downloads), as the basis for it, and a good time was had by all... From the response, I'm betting there will be a bunch more fans of SHARD out there after this, which makes me really happy...
I'd like to thank the folks that accompanied me for helping out and providing some great company and conversation...(and for driving...heh! :P). It really helps not feeling like a loner newbie at such conventions...
Next year I'll be contacting the convention super early to get a dealer's table! Wish us luck!
Scottie