The convention season has started. During May we attended two conventions, Nordingrå Games day in Nordingrå and the classic LinCon in Linköping.
Nordingrå is a small fishing village smack in the middle of the high coast. Here we find the indie game creator hub The High coast game village. The community focuses mostly on supporting indie video game designers in the area but the Nordingrå Game Day is for all kinds of gaming! For us it was great to be able to attend since Per lives in the area and for once I (Åke) was the one who had to make travel arrangements.
The event turned out to be one of the most hectic days of demoing we’ve ever had! From 10:30 to 17:00 we barely had time to talk to each-other! We utilized our tables as best as we could and made room for up to four parallel game groups. When things wound down we got the chance to say hi to the owner of Orion Spel and try out Bauer by NordInk. (I ended out buying a copy)
It was a fun day that passed in a haze and when we got back to Per’s house after a dinner we just chilled and tried to recuperate.
LinCon is a convention we’ve visited many times now and it’s always fun. We showed our games all day Thursday through Saturday. There were lulls, especially in the mornings, but after the weekend we’d played many many games of both Perilous Pond and Bushido Duels with so many lovely people!
This year I think Perilous Pond was the more popular game, but we had a couple of die-hard Bushido Duels fans visiting as well. In addition to our released games we tried out an early prototype with visitors and a friendly game designer from Swedish Meeples.
LinCon is also a great place to meet old acquaintances and other game designers. We visited the Indie game designer room and checked out a bunch of really cool designs shared war stories.
Since we live far* from each-other we also make the most of these conventions by eating good, playing boardgames** and just hanging out.
After the conventions we’ve been recuperating*** and are already planning our next conventions 🙂
– Åke
* faaaaaaaaaaaaar
** Mostly in cramped spaces, but also at home
*** This means playing Slay the Spire 2