The show floor from the sky bridge that you walk across everytime you want to get to a panel room across the building on the same floor as the last panel you saw.
We just got back from PAX East Monday night. God provided that we had the money to get there, sold all the books while there and therefore had the money to get home. Go God!!! And thank you to the random gift givers who helped us get there. You all are awesome!!!
The Escapist movie night panel, L-R: One of the dudes from the new show "Space Janitors", Shamus, Movie Bob, and the crew of Loading, Ready, Run: Matt Wiggins, Kathleen De Vere, Graham Stark
We got to find out how quickly Shamus’ book would sell out and wish we had brought more. Very sorry to all those who didn’t get to buy one– if you want a signed copy of “The Witch Watch” you can now order a signed copy directly from us here.
Blankety Blank Panel which was hosted by Susan Arendt (NOT in the photo) which was hilarious! In photo : Russ Pitts, Dan Amrich, Kathleen De Vere, and Movie Bob
We saw some amazingly funny panels (like the LLR panel and those that the Escapist creatives including Susan Arendt and Movie Bob were involved in). We got to meet some more cool people to add to the list of cool people we already know (like Russ Pitts and James Portnow along with a slew of Shamus’ readers and some really awesome indie game developers) and see friends we hadn’t seen for a year (like Susan Arendt and the LLR crew) .
James Portnow of Extra Credits among many other things.
We got to see some incredibly thought provoking panels which I am still pondering and percolating posts thanks to (namely two that included James Portnow and were on topics close to my heart– one on Gaming and Education and one called the Genre Divide about rethinking why people play certain games and how games are divided into genres.)
Girls Like Robots (a pretty fun indie game.)
A very cool concept for a rpg that my kids are really looking forward to: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/JoshuaACNewman/mobile-frame-zero-rapid-attack
We got to see a ton of amazing indie games and some cool AAA games.
Shamus crashed while waiting.
We got tired and hungry and sick of granola bars (thanks to the convention centers ridiculously huge symmetric layout where you have to go down a level and cross a sky bridge to get between two panels on the same floor and expensive food–$7 for a HOT DOG.)
In front of the convention center-- parking was in rear and you had to walk a quarter mile of wind tunnel just to get in a door.
We got stuck in 2 hours of 5 mph traffic and only got lost in Boston once (last year we managed to add a half hour of wrong turns onto every single trip and this year we were saved mostly thanks to paying close attention, avoiding the roads we knew we had trouble with, and Josh’ excellent sense of direction.)
The audience at the Escapist movie night panel.
We are glad to be home and pondering all that we saw. I have multiple posts in my brain about gaming so that should be interesting (if I have time to write about them.)
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