{"id":699,"date":"2007-07-09T09:28:58","date_gmt":"2007-07-09T13:28:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2007\/07\/09\/origins-2007\/"},"modified":"2008-02-18T03:11:41","modified_gmt":"2008-02-18T07:11:41","slug":"origins-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2007\/07\/09\/origins-2007\/","title":{"rendered":"Origins 2007"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have returned from my hiatus, which was, in fact, four days in Columbus, Ohio for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.originsgames.com\/\">Origins Convention<\/a>. I was, with a handful of other strategy and war game journalists, a guest of Matrix Games, so I have every opportunity to talk to designers whose work I admired and designers whose work needs more work. I hope to get some previews sold later this week.<\/p>\n<p>Origins is like Walmart for nerds &#8211; stall after stall of people selling RPGs, board games, dice, foam weapons, shirts with stupid gaming slogans on them, etc. The electronic side of the wargame\/RPG market was largely absent, limited to Matrix demo-ing the titles it has released in the last year or so, Longbow Digital Arts showing off <em>Hegemony<\/em> (Jim McNally even <a href=\"http:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2006\/05\/05\/developer-interview-jim-mcnally\/\">remembered who I was<\/a>) and EA\/Mythic running a horde of attendees through areas of <em>Warhammer: Online<\/em>. Given how many miniatures people are there, as well as the whole War College Seminar series, I was sort of surprised to not see other wargame publishers at the con. If the activity at the Matrix and LDA booths are any indication, this is a good place to expand your audience.<\/p>\n<p>The highlights?<\/p>\n<p>1) Seeing Mark Walker&#8217;s <em>Lock and Load<\/em> computer game in action. This is going on the list.<br \/>\n2) Finally meeting Bruce Geryk and Wargamer head-honcho Jim Zabek.<br \/>\n3) An amazing steak dinner at a local steak house.<br \/>\n4) Learning three or four new games and coming home hooked on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blue-moon-games.com\/us\/spiel\/spielidee.html\">Blue Moon<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have returned from my hiatus, which was, in fact, four days in Columbus, Ohio for the Origins Convention. I was, with a handful of other strategy and war game journalists, a guest of Matrix Games, so I have every opportunity to talk to designers whose work I admired and designers whose work needs more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5GFeQ-bh","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}