December 10, 2024: BGG.CON 2024 Post-Convention Report
I recently attended BGG.CON at the Hyatt Regency Reunion Tower in Dallas, and there were over 2,500 players present!
A few of our team members staffed a booth in the exhibit hall, and we featured demos of some of our newest/coolest releases, including Car Wars Orange/Purple, Pathfinder Revolution!, and Hack & Slash Deluxe.
This was 5-day con, and while the library did close at night, gaming was otherwise happening aoround the clock! There were scores of entertaining events to sign up for, including some from SJ Games' friend Nathaniel T. Nathaniel hosted a Car Wars tournament, along with several sessions of The Fantasy Trip, and I'm exccited to report that 13 whole new players were introduced to our games through his events!
One of my favorite features this year was a sensory room in which folks could relax in a quiet space with dim lighting, comfortable seating, coloring books, . . . [more]
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December 9, 2024: Aquatic Dinosaurs?
If you're anything like me, you've called Elasmosaurus or Mosasaurus a dinosaur only to be immediately excoriated by the nearest paleo nerd, quick to tell you why that's dead wrong.
You see, those are merely dinosaur-like reptiles (big ol' fossil guys with names ending in "saur"). There weren't any aquatic dinosaurs . . . at least, not contemporary with the dinosaurs we're thinking of.
But you know what'll leave your paleo pedant gobsmacked? Naming an aquatic dinosaur alive right now.
You see, the fact that modern birds are living dinosaurs means that penguins are also dinosaurs. Aquatic dinosaurs, QED.
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December 8, 2024: The Joys Of The Non-Digital
A recent article notes that automaker Hyundai is planning to move back to physical buttons in cars, after customers seem to be rejecting touchscreen controls.
Speaking as someone who doesn't much care for tapping on a screen while I'm driving 70mph on the interstate (and owns a Hyundai!), I'm intrigued by this news. But I'm also interested in it as a continuum of the return to the analog world as a whole. As much as I love video and computer games, there's also something to the experience of shuffling a nice deck of physical cards, or moving real pieces around a board.
But don't try to play Munchkin Shadowrun while you're driving next to me on I-69; I'm likely trying to tune my radio.
-- Steven Marsh
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