![]() ![]() Liuįorbidden Sky, the third title in Matt Leacock’s cooperative series from Gamewright, had a long line of customers waiting for it. You could have spent all weekend at Gen Con and had a completely different experience! There was a long line to buy Forbidden Sky at the Gamewright booth. ![]() I think I did manage to visit just over 100 booths over the course of the weekend, and I did manage to check off most of the booths on my list, plus a good number that I’d forgotten to write down, but there’s still a lot that I missed. Of course, not all of those are board game publishers, but it highlights the impossibility of seeing everything-and that’s just in the exhibit hall, not even counting all the events going on all the time at the rest of Gen Con. Go out to grab lunch? That’s at least 10 booths. Trip to the bathroom? That’s 2 or 3 booths. ![]() I also failed to account for the “just saying hello” portion of my usual list, because there were some companies that didn’t have specific new games that I checked … and I missed a lot.Īs Dave pointed out in our Gen Con wrap-up, I did a little quick math and calculated that, with 560 vendors listed this year, if I spent all available exhibit hall hours in the exhibit hall, I’d have an average of 3.3 minutes per booth. This year, I used BoardGameGeek’s games preview list to check off games I was curious about, and was pleased to find that I could sort it by booth number as well.īut because of a family trip right before Gen Con, I didn’t actually copy all this down into my notebook until my layover on the way to Indianapolis. Last year I managed to make a list and then sort it by booth number before writing it in my notebook, which was a lot handier than a random list of companies and booth numbers. I always try to make a list of booths I want to visit at Gen Con, whether to check out a new release or just to say hello to somebody I know. Checking over my list as I enter the exhibit hall… Photo: Jonathan H. Without further ado, here’s my Jonathan’s-eye view of the day. But it’s also my day with the fewest photos-because I checked out of the exhibit hall for a few hours for our Gaming with GeekDad event, at which point I was more focused on teaching games than taking pictures. Saturday is usually the busiest day of Gen Con, when people who can’t attend during the week show up with a single-day pass. And now, on to Day 3 of Gen Con! (In case you missed them, here are Day 1 and Day 2.) ![]()
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