Gen Con Writers Symposium 2023 - S.E. Lindberg Chronicles
- Gen Con Writers Symposium 2023 - Overview from the Chair
- Panels: Sword & Sorcery & Handling New Releases
- The Skull from Tales from the Magician's Skull: Ziggurat, Gorgar Pinball, Shattered Lands, etc.
- Playtesting & Previews: Dante, Conan, Scott Lynch, Bittcoin Hodl Up [you are here]
- Selfies and Connections: Peter Adkison, Fred Malmberg, many authors & friends
Dante: Invasion of Hell
Creative Games Studio made chronicles of Chronicles of Drunagor, a miniature-heavy dungeon crawler. Since I watched their Gamefound page for their next project (Dante: Invasion of Hell) I was able to secure a seat to play with the developer, Mauro Carvalho (also joined by friend Dirk Domaschko). Dante currently has two phases: (a) a narrative choose-your-own-adventure phase followed by (b) a tactical boss battle. Very promising.
Hodl Up!
Free Market Kids game founder, Scott Lindberg plays his educational game Hodl Up: it is all about Bittcoin mechanics (the actual currency, not the investment in digital currency). The game is fun by itself, and since it is based on real mechanics it helps teach why things like 21 million, and halving events, and cold wallets matter! Turns out, Magic the Gather artist Dan Scott is into this topic, and they played a game.
Scott Lynch Game
Yes, another "Scott" infiltrates my post, this time it is well-known author Scott Lynch and partner Elizabeth Bear. During our Writers' Symposium social event, he led a group of us through a comical, cooperative game he made.
Conan Prototype?
Even More Conan?
Heroic Signature's "consigliere" Steve Booth previewed a cool map that may be a portent of the future:
