Return to Geek Mountain

or rather that should be "from Geek Mountain", as I have just come back from a weekend at Gen Con.

For those of you who don't know, Gen Con is a gigantic gaming convention that takes place every year. It goes for four days and, to me, it's about as exciting as Christmas. This was something I used to do with my dad each year, but I hadn't been going for a while for obvious reasons. In any case, this year I decided to change that and I went off to Indianapolis with Amelie and my mom in tow.

And it was awesome. While some things were different from the way I remembered them, I had a great time. I got to get back to my gaming roots and truly geek out for a few days. I openly spoke about D&D (something that I don't play but enjoy hearing about), I played many a game, and I spent a fair sum of money in the exhibit hall on a few games that happened to tickle my fancy. One of these purchases was for the "Penny-Arcade Card Game" which, yes, is created after the famous online comic. This just gives an example of the stuff you can find at the Con. Also a little side note about my purchase: the game won't be released to the public for a few weeks, which makes it that much cooler.

Another aspect of this weekend was getting the opportunity to attend a few seminars, one of which focused on creating web comics. It gave me a lot of ideas as to break onto the scene, as well as maintain discipline in getting stuff done. So, once again, I am toying with the idea of making a comic. I'll have to see where that goes, but if anyone has any ideas or would like to help, let me know, ok?

Oh, and one other thing: while at the Con, I got to talk with Ryan Sohmer and Lar DeSouza, the creator and illustrator (respectively) of Least I Could Do, which happens to be one of my favorite comic strips. We go to talking about making comics (surprise) and I was telling them about how I was trying to get one started when they told me to send them some stuff their way so that they could look at it and see what might happen. I realize this is a long shot, but I might bounced for the rest of day after I talked to them.

And it still has the same effect.

bounce.