This seminar will discuss the issues surrounding setting up and starting a gaming business, such as choosing a corporate entity, hiring employees, complying with publishing requirements, and other legal ana practical issues faced in the genesis of a new company.
Liz Danforth provides a look at the life of a freelance artist within the gaming industry. It will include how and where to find work, a discussion of various techniques, and a discussion of the gradual professionalization of the gaming industry and the graphic presentation of products. Gen Con Symposium.
Technology and tactics; how they relate and drive each other's development. This seminar will discuss tactics and their evolution through the ages, as it relates to the technology of the period. Topics covered will include: armor and the race to pierce it, weapons and how they changed the tactics by their use, and the role of maneuver in modern conflict. Presented by Stewart Davies, Dean of Tactics at the Strategic Defense Institute.
Join Editors from Dragon Magazine, Dungeon Adventures, The Duelist, Amazing Stories and the Wizards of the Coast Players Guide, and learn the secrets of getting your foot in the door as a magazine contributor. Whether you write science fiction or fantasy stories, or articles on gaming, books, or the movies, this panel offers valuable tips for up-and- comers.
When Hugo Gernsback founded this landmark science fiction magazine back with editor and-chief Kim Mohan and the Amazing Stories editorial staff about the past, present, and future of the world's first science fiction magazine.
Many people dream of becoming a writer, but what is it really like? How does the work get done? Where do the ideas come from? what special problems are there? Award- winning short story and novel Kij Johnson talks about her creative process and offers tips from her experience.