We're going to PAX!

That's right, we're going to PAX. Only "the largest gaming festival in the Western Hemisphere"! It's the Penny Arcade eXpo!

I've been a fan of PA for a few years now, whenever things have gotten too stressful, I've gone to PA and read up the last few comics I've missed. I don't actually play video games myself as such, at least until StarCrack 2 "drops", is that how you say it? But I really like the authors' writing styles, and every once in awhile I get to sound like I totally know wtf I'm talking about when a conversation happens to veer towards gamery.

But I've always wanted to go to PAX (since I've known of it) if for no other reason than to be bathed in the light of that much computerized fun, and not be the nerdiest person in the room for three whole days.

http://www.pennyarcadeexpo.com/

From the ticket page:

"Five years, 37,000 attendees and 300,000 square feet later, PAX has grown from a small convention in Bellevue, Washington to the largest gaming festival in the Western Hemisphere. It's three days devoted absolutely to fans of games, industry insiders, and people who understand that play is important. PAX has become the destination event of the year, with tens of thousands of gamers celebrating their community and shared culture."

So now Rodney (http://www.rodneysramblings.com) and I are going! We're going to make a bit of a fuss about TriGalactic, give away some flyers and maybe cool schwagg.

If you'd like to attend spaek up.

In keeping with our official policy of sourcing all our schwag from hand-made artists, I'd like to purchase about $250 worth of polymer clay "cane" to be sliced into "pog" sort-of coins, with various cool patterns of space, sci-fi, and some sort of TriGalactic branding, maybe a stamp?

I'm totally open to other ideas, that's just what I came up with tonight.

A huge wave of eternal gratitude to JF who totally made it happen like magic. Wow that was neato.

And of course we'll be documenting the whole trip and blogging about it, oo, and all like that.

Sleep well and dream happy,
~S

Please allow me to introduce myself.

Hello,

Did you ever have a dream in childhood that you've almost forgotten now?

I had completely forgotten this, but back in high school my best friend and I wanted to go into business for ourselves as game creators.

My name is Simon Forman, and I want you to play a game.

It's a space game. It takes place in a setting of three colliding Galaxies, each with it's own social and political structure. It's based on a ground-breaking supremely flexible engine that will enable us to generate in-game behavior that can model anything we can come up with.

Thousands of players, epic storylines, real roleplaying, cutting edge technology, this is going to be great.

We're starting it now, creating the game rules and inviting pre-subscribers. We're going to play the first beta games in September, and we'll have the game Universe itself up and running before Christmas.

You can join or just check it out at: TriGalactic

Because it's fun, because it will work, because you want to play this game, because you want to help.

And because I want to make everybody I know wealthy, for doing things they're good at.

We're going to sign up two thousand paying beta customers by the end of the month.

This is a test

If it were a real emergency you wouldn't be able to read this post.