As I may have mentioned before, I’m on the committee that helps select the gaming industry guests of honor for Gen Con, my favorite event of the year. This is kind of like being asked to help oversee Christmas.
This year, we had a fantastic slate of guests: Jordan Weisman, Nolan T. Jones, and Anita Sarkeesian. We also instituted a new series of presentations called Gen Con Insights, featuring high-quality videos of some of the best speakers in gaming. Those were all recorded, and the first one’s out now, featuring my pal Peter Adkison, founder of Wizards of the Coast and co-owner of Gen Con.
In this presentation, Peter tells the story of how he came to publish one of the most influential and successful games of all time, Magic: The Gathering. It’s well worth the watch.
Other videos are on the slate too, as listed below. In the Uncommon Conversations, we enlisted a crew of gaming industry luminaries (Tanya DePass, Nicole Lindroos, Luke Crane, and Jason Morningstar) to interview our guests of honor. These made for some amazing chats.
Friday, 9/28
- Uncommon Conversations – Nolan T. Jones / Tanya DePass
Friday, 10/5
- Uncommon Conversations — Jordan Weisman / Nicole Lindroos
- Insights — Shanna Germain
Friday, 10/12
- Uncommon Conversations — Anita Sarkeesian / Luke Crane
- Industry Guest of Honor Round Table — All IGOH / Jason Morningstar
- Insights — Ben Dobyns
Tune in as the other videos come up too. I hope you’ll be as delighted with them as I am.
