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seawaspWell, yesterday I spent the day at Genericon as a guest.
Highlights;
Sold something like 17 copies of Digital Knight! (haven't counted the remaining ones yet)
Met Pete (Sluggy Freelance), Randy (Something Positive) and Ian J (RPGWorld). They're all cool guys.
Pete was busy, but gracious enough to give me a dai kawaii pic of Oasis, and do a bit of discussion on Sluggy. As I'd suspected, most of what he does is planned long, LONG in advance (it fit together too well to be improv'd most of the time). He confirmed some of my deductions on certain events and people, especially about Torg, whom I always suspected was a lot sharper and more dangerous than people think. Pete also insisted on paying for DK -- of course, he knows I'm going to be buying all of the Sluggy books, so it's not like he's losing on the deal. :)
Ian is quiet -- his webcomic is dynamic and exuberant, he's very reserved. I have to send him a copy of DK.
Randy can make dry, witty comments very much like Davan. This is as I rather expected, somehow.
Next year I'll be helping them do an official Cosplay there; tons of cosplayers showed up, and had no venue for their creative talents!
The I-Con booth next to mine cooperated with me in promoting DK and their own stuff. I'll probably go to ICon as a Guest.
Highlights;
Sold something like 17 copies of Digital Knight! (haven't counted the remaining ones yet)
Met Pete (Sluggy Freelance), Randy (Something Positive) and Ian J (RPGWorld). They're all cool guys.
Pete was busy, but gracious enough to give me a dai kawaii pic of Oasis, and do a bit of discussion on Sluggy. As I'd suspected, most of what he does is planned long, LONG in advance (it fit together too well to be improv'd most of the time). He confirmed some of my deductions on certain events and people, especially about Torg, whom I always suspected was a lot sharper and more dangerous than people think. Pete also insisted on paying for DK -- of course, he knows I'm going to be buying all of the Sluggy books, so it's not like he's losing on the deal. :)
Ian is quiet -- his webcomic is dynamic and exuberant, he's very reserved. I have to send him a copy of DK.
Randy can make dry, witty comments very much like Davan. This is as I rather expected, somehow.
Next year I'll be helping them do an official Cosplay there; tons of cosplayers showed up, and had no venue for their creative talents!
The I-Con booth next to mine cooperated with me in promoting DK and their own stuff. I'll probably go to ICon as a Guest.
Ah, nostalgia (reactions from afar)
Date: 2004-01-25 07:02 pm (UTC)So, has Genericon resurged to the glory days of its pre-1996 revival? The website doesn't list attendance numbers. Genericon 9's ~150 was nicely chummy, but I suppose higher numbers couldn't hurt -- the buildings are at least engineered for it. Unlike those pansy "convention centers" that only expect to host "business conventions," nyeh.
(Reads Sam Early's review (http://diversions.toonzone.net/upstate/extra/genericon2004/genericon2004-1.htm), linked from Genericon's site (http://genericon.union.rpi.edu).) Lego Wars, eh? I was wondering if that was still a tradition. I ran a couple of "QuikWars" games myself (http://www.underbase.org/blog/archive/00000059.htm) at this year's Philcon (http://www.philcon.org), in my capacity as Children's Program coordinator. The eight-year-olds loved destruction, but had trouble assuming the proper attitude of Glorying! In! Overblown! Carnage! with each encounter.
What, cosplayers have infilitrated Genericon? Surely they cannot be native! RPI must maintain its reputation as a school of hard-nosed scientists and engineers (and overworked Archies), or THE MACROCOSMIC UNIVERSE IS LOST! (We try to ignore the MFA-Electronic Arts people.) If the costume incorporates working transformational elements, computer-driven light-fibers, or carbon composites, then fine -- but anything made on a sewing machine is right out.
--Phillip Thorne 1998 (The Non-Sequitur Express (http://nsx.underbase.org))
Writing and Genericon
Date: 2004-01-27 06:08 am (UTC)Congratulations on your first novel, Ryk! Twelve reviews on Amazon, average rating 4 stars -- not bad (I assume). I now have reason to actually buy something at a bookstore.
Thanks. Yes, buy... my... book! (said in a William Shatner voice)
So, has Genericon resurged to the glory days of its pre-1996 revival? The website doesn't list attendance numbers. Genericon 9's ~150 was nicely chummy, but I suppose higher numbers couldn't hurt -- the buildings are at least engineered for it. Unlike those pansy "convention centers" that only expect to host "business conventions," nyeh.
I don't know just how many were there, but I'd guess between 300 and 500 at least. There were a lot of people going by me at my table.
(Reads Sam Early's review, linked from Genericon's site.) Lego Wars, eh? I was wondering if that was still a tradition. I ran a couple of "QuikWars" games myself at this year's Philcon, in my capacity as Children's Program coordinator. The eight-year-olds loved destruction, but had trouble assuming the proper attitude of Glorying! In! Overblown! Carnage! with each encounter.
Alas, I didn't get much chance to see the other parts of the con, and to be honest the wargame material never interested me. I'm a roleplayer and anime geek. (I've now been a Genericon guest in three different guises: guest GM, doing an Anime presentation, and now as author)
What, cosplayers have infilitrated Genericon? Surely they cannot be native! RPI must maintain its reputation as a school of hard-nosed scientists and engineers (and overworked Archies), or THE MACROCOSMIC UNIVERSE IS LOST!
Bah. I'm a cosplayer myself.
(We try to ignore the MFA-Electronic Arts people.) If the costume incorporates working transformational elements, computer-driven light-fibers, or carbon composites, then fine -- but anything made on a sewing machine is right out.
Pfui. Anything that incorporates a CAPE is fine. Capes are cool. Everyone should have the opportunity to wear one.
Re: Writing and Genericon
Date: 2004-02-04 10:39 am (UTC)>Thanks. Yes, buy... my... book! (said in a William Shatner voice)
Have done. Haven't yet read, because (as it happens) I'm in the middle of a project to extract the technology from the William Shatner "Kirk returns and becomes a luddite!" novels. It's fairly easy to spot where the Reeves-Stevens took over... the paragraphs suddenly get longer.
>>Lego Wars, eh?
>to be honest the wargame material never interested me
Yes... but BrikWars and QuikWars are played with PLASTIC BUILDING BRICKS. EVERY game is more fun when played with bricks, regardless of its ostensible type. These aren't games in which players carefully guard their pewter miniatures against the slightly damage -- the entire *point* is to build cool structures, then destroy them horribly (while projecting yourself into the mini-figs).
>>What, cosplayers have infilitrated Genericon?
>>Surely they cannot be native!
>Bah. I'm a cosplayer myself.
Yes, but are you an RPI alum? If not, it doesn't matter *what* you think, or what strange Foreign Notions you propound, because you're an outsider, from beyond the Reality Barrier. Just stand long enough in proximity to the High Bay, chip-fab and other labs, and eventually you'll absorb the proper Technic Outlook by osmosis. Possibly it's transmitted by white-board vapors.
I will remain ambivalent about hall-costume cosplay (and its older SF-con sibling) until I can derive a Unified Theory for what the cosplayers are trying to do. Masquerades I understand, and I've just about got Halloween figured out...
>Pfui. Anything that incorporates a CAPE is fine. Capes are cool.
Only if they incorporate refractory armor-scales, light-bending fibers or a communications grid. Or if they repel snow. Repelling snow is good.
--Phillip Thorne (NSX::Blogmode (http://www.underbase.org/blog/))