The book-Things We Think About Games-makes more than 100 assertions about games from the obvious-but-overlooked ('In an RPG, all the characters are wearing pants') to the too-frequently-disregarded ('Take your turn, already!') to the deeply zen ('Be aware that the other players are not necessarily playing for the same reasons you are'). Bring your own cunning, brilliant, or mad assertions to discuss and defend at this thinking gamer's roundtable.
Join veteran podcasters Ryan Macklin and Kevin Weiser for twice-daily audio updates of what's happening at Gen Con. Along with their special guests, you will have the opportunity to tell the folks at home what they're missing. Each event will produce a fifteen-minute podcast that will be immediately uploaded for fans at home.
Join veteran podcasters Ryan Macklin and Kevin Weiser for twice-daily audio updates of what's happening at Gen Con. Along with their special guests, you will have the opportunity to tell the folks at home what they're missing. Each event will produce a fifteen-minute podcast that will be immediately uploaded for fans at home.
Join veteran podcasters Ryan Macklin and Kevin Weiser for twice-daily audio updates of what's happening at Gen Con. Along with their special guests, you will have the opportunity to tell the folks at home what they're missing. Each event will produce a fifteen-minute podcast that will be immediately uploaded for fans at home.
Join veteran podcasters Ryan Macklin and Kevin Weiser for twice-daily audio updates of what's happening at Gen Con. Along with their special guests, you will have the opportunity to tell the folks at home what they're missing. Each event will produce a fifteen-minute podcast that will be immediately uploaded for fans at home.
Join veteran podcasters Ryan Macklin and Kevin Weiser for twice-daily audio updates of what's happening at Gen Con. Along with their special guests, you will have the opportunity to tell the folks at home what they're missing. Each event will produce a fifteen-minute podcast that will be immediately uploaded for fans at home.
Join veteran podcasters Ryan Macklin and Kevin Weiser for twice-daily audio updates of what's happening at Gen Con. Along with their special guests, you will have the opportunity to tell the folks at home what they're missing. Each event will produce a fifteen-minute podcast that will be immediately uploaded for fans at home.
Join veteran podcasters Ryan Macklin and Kevin Weiser for twice-daily audio updates of what's happening at Gen Con. Along with their special guests, you will have the opportunity to tell the folks at home what they're missing. Each event will produce a fifteen-minute podcast that will be immediately uploaded for fans at home.
This Pen's For Hire: Finding Work in Shared Worlds
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There’s work to be had in the writing world if you’re willing to play with someone else’s property. Tie-in projects include books based on television shows, movies, comic books, role-playing games, computer games, and more. So where do you look? How do you land the projects? And what are the pros and cons of shared-world writing?
Time Travel, Parallel Universes, & Quantum Physics
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In a parallel universe somewhere, you've already attended this session and know all about how wav theory, super-strings, quantum entanglement, and things like noetics bear on frequent sci-fi concepts like time travel and mirror Earths. But since you're not in that universe, you might want to attend this panel and get some insight into actual physics ... or just enough gobbledy-gook to make your next story sound credible.