Gen Con
I'm behind in my blogging and need to catch up. First up, I was in Indianapolis last weekend for Gen Con, the nation's biggest gaming convention. Thousands of gamers converge on the city for four days to play board games, roleplaying games, collectible card games, computer games, miniatures games, war games, poker, and any other games they can get their hands on. I was there with my company showing off our latest board games.
I'm gonna skip over a lot of the nerdy gaming details and just give you the highlights.
I didn't get to see a whole lot of Indianapolis -- just the downtown area around the convention center. Unfortunately it was very hot and muggy most of the time we were there, and the downtown streets smelled of, to put it bluntly, raw sewage. Yuck. As far as I know Minneapolis streets don't smell that bad!
The convention center itself is an enormous building, which is good because Gen Con is a very big convention. The convention center is also right next to the RCA Dome, where the Colts play. They had a preseason game on Saturday the 20th and I got to witness a sea of blue-jerseyed fans flowing into the stadium.
Also to walk from my hotel to the convention center I passed by both Dungy Avenue and Peyton Place, which gave me a chuckle.
We lucked out with our hotel room -- Friday night the A/C went out, and it being so hot and muggy, we let the front desk know. They ended up moving us to the presidential suite! It was a very swanky room with two floors, a spiral staircase connecting them, a big skylight, two bedrooms, three bathrooms, and two balconies. Woo-hoo!
A few other random notes:
Indianapolis has a skyway system, though not as big as Minneapolis's:
Also Indianapolis, like Minneapolis, will not allow restaurants to serve you a burger below medium unless the restaurant grinds its own meat. (How's that for a non sequitur?)
I had a lot of fun, but the convention was rather exhausting for me. I basically demoed games for 8 hours, then stayed up too late playing games. I lost my most of my voice on the second day. It was a heck of a lot of fun, but it's good to be home.
I'm gonna skip over a lot of the nerdy gaming details and just give you the highlights.
I didn't get to see a whole lot of Indianapolis -- just the downtown area around the convention center. Unfortunately it was very hot and muggy most of the time we were there, and the downtown streets smelled of, to put it bluntly, raw sewage. Yuck. As far as I know Minneapolis streets don't smell that bad!
The convention center itself is an enormous building, which is good because Gen Con is a very big convention. The convention center is also right next to the RCA Dome, where the Colts play. They had a preseason game on Saturday the 20th and I got to witness a sea of blue-jerseyed fans flowing into the stadium.
Also to walk from my hotel to the convention center I passed by both Dungy Avenue and Peyton Place, which gave me a chuckle.
We lucked out with our hotel room -- Friday night the A/C went out, and it being so hot and muggy, we let the front desk know. They ended up moving us to the presidential suite! It was a very swanky room with two floors, a spiral staircase connecting them, a big skylight, two bedrooms, three bathrooms, and two balconies. Woo-hoo!
A few other random notes:
Indianapolis has a skyway system, though not as big as Minneapolis's:
Also Indianapolis, like Minneapolis, will not allow restaurants to serve you a burger below medium unless the restaurant grinds its own meat. (How's that for a non sequitur?)
I had a lot of fun, but the convention was rather exhausting for me. I basically demoed games for 8 hours, then stayed up too late playing games. I lost my most of my voice on the second day. It was a heck of a lot of fun, but it's good to be home.
posted by James at 2:08 PM
1 Comments:
The last couple of times I've driven through Indiana, the entire state smelled like cow poo. My solution: Keep the windows up, recirculate air inside the car, and strap cloves to your nose.
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