Anyone in Ohio?

[ErinHoffman]

Let's see if I can figure out this here 'off topic' forum...

Anybody out there in Ohio? I will be running an interactive narrative/game design workshop at Context 21 in Columbus, OH this September:

http://www.contextsf.org/workshop.htm

Scroll waaaay down. Context is a nice little con -- lots of high profile authors show up despite the low population, so there's actually a good possibility of having a meaningful conversation with them. I was on a couple of gaming panels last year -- they're trying to expand this portion of their programming to help bridge the gap between speculative fiction communities and gaming communities, which I wholly support -- and the discussions were of very high quality, if I do say so myself. I am also usually fairly negative on Ohio (sorry, blame your highway patrol), but Columbus is a cool town.

I'll/we'll be using Inform7, which is an amazing little free interactive fiction engine, and while the workshop description emphasizes interactive narrative, I'll be primarily talking about game design and the notion of using Inform to prototype a game story/concept as an interactive pitch.

It'll be fun, I swear. 13 seats left. Get 'em while they're hot! Punch and pie.

 

[Anarchemitis]

[joke]Ohio? Please tell of this far-off fictional land....[/joke]

Sorry, Canadian.

 

[ErinHoffman]

Canada isn't that far from Ohio!

 

[Saskwach]

I wish you people would stop talking about damn fantasy realms.
(Aussie, and I'd go if I could.)

 

[Necrohydra]

If I didn't have to donate my leg to science to get there, I'd think about it. Western New York, here.

Yes, there's a WHOLE state outside that city!

 

[Saskwach]

If I didn't have to donate my leg to science to get there, I'd think about it. Western New York, here.

Yes, there's a WHOLE state outside that city!

What did I say about making up places? Next you'll be from Middle Earth.

 

[ErinHoffman]

Necro, you're in western New York? The drive isn't that far. I drove from Albany last year. I certainly understand either way, though.

New York is a big damn state.

 

[AnGeL.SLayer]

I'm in Ohio!! *jump up n down*...wait..I'm not really proud of it...and Columbus is about 3 hours from me. sorry. hehe ^_^ I'd go if I had the free time...and if it was free. Not sure I'd ever pay for something like that. Once agagin, Sorry.

 

[Necrohydra]

If I didn't have to donate my leg to science to get there, I'd think about it. Western New York, here.

Yes, there's a WHOLE state outside that city!

What did I say about making up places? Next you'll be from Middle Earth.

Hey, get it straight! The mushroom people do not like to be called "middle".

Yeah, it would probably be a good 6-8 hour drive for me to get to Columbus. That's a weekend thing...as I don't think I can really take vacation anytime soon.

 

[TheSteeleStrap]

I'm in Ohio!! *jump up n down*...wait..I'm not really proud of it...and Columbus is about 3 hours from me. sorry. hehe ^_^ I'd go if I had the free time...and if it was free. Not sure I'd ever pay for something like that. Once agagin, Sorry.

Ohio huh? Me too, near Cleveland.

 

[werepossum]

I'm in Ohio!! *jump up n down*...wait..I'm not really proud of it...and Columbus is about 3 hours from me. sorry. hehe ^_^ I'd go if I had the free time...and if it was free. Not sure I'd ever pay for something like that. Once agagin, Sorry.

As a 6'-3" 20 year old woman in a SciFi convention you wouldn't have to pay for anything you didn't want to pay for. In fact you could probably pick up enough admirers to start your own island nation. (Or at least a good cult. Tiffanyism?) [/evil grin]