Gencon Day 3,
I awake to K-biz going , hey its 6 am. Not a big deal as this is actually sleeping late for me. Get up, get showered, get going.
I glance over at the other bed, it looks empty. Fuck, I slept on the floor for nothing???
Then I see the guy sleeping in the chair and I put on my glasses and there is a lump in the bed, a human sized one. At some time during the night our illustrious roomies seem to have slipped in.
So we head on down to the con. Apparently the info in my book is bad because the dealer’s room doesn’t open until 10, dealers get in at 8. My book says opens at 8, so dealers in at 7. We’re there over an hour early. I take the time to go pick the bag I didn’t get the day before. It does have some interesting stuff in it. There is one thing I can say for gen con and that’s hella good swag. All kinds of new dice and card game demos, with free bys. But I’m getting ahead of myself.
I grab a quick coffee and bagel (sucky) and its time for the dealer’s room to open. We quickly find that our booth partner has monopolized most of the space, but with some creative set up we get a workable space. Its now about 30 minutes until the gates of hell open. Our booth buddy shows up and we chat for a bit. He’s a nice guy, selling a card organizer that works for just about any game that uses cares. It’s a nice product, but he spent way too much to make it. Something like 60K for the mold, which is nuts for a 40$ product. Oh well, you live you learn.10 o’clock rolls by and the crowds start to file/mob in. We get some traffic right away, but no sales. I take off for a bit to explore.
I start off watching a new pirate game being demoed, which uses “gold” coins to simulate your ship crew weapons, ect. It looks really neat, but costs 20$ per set and it loos like you’ll need two sets to play, so I take my free coin and move on.
Up next us a card game , which simulates miniature war games. It’s a neat concept and playing it is kind of fun, but I can’t think of any time I’d really get a chance to play it. So I take my free space ship game for demoing and head on.
Up next is anachronism or something like that. Its another card game sponsored by the history channel, which allows you to pit some of history’s big guys against each other, like what if alaxander the great fought gengis kahn. Play is pretty easy and I really like that the game takes into account real historical information to create the characters.
From there I skip around from booth to booth for a while. The wizards booth has a giant dice you can roll and win prizes if you demo some of their stuff. I get a red hand adventure book, which looks cool.
Next I see the new order of the stick game demo. I’m there for like a minute before I’m sure I must have the game. The ling for the game is long and slow. I’m in line a full hour before making my purchase, with a collectable magnet and pin. Later in the day I find that they sold out of the game so I’m glad I didn’t decide to skip out of the line and try to get one the next day.
I come back to the booth and check in with K-biz. So far 7 sales. I stick around for a bit and we get two more, so up to 9. Fearing other stuff will sell out fast I go over to the cheap table and pick up boxes of hack/enemy and buffy the card game for like 4$. I see anyone I bringing souvenirs for getting some expansion packs for one of these games.
K-biz takes off for the night. I do my time for the day and rake in 3 more sales so we’ve got 12 total. This is about the most we’ve ever sold at a con and it’s only the first day. There is lots of interest in the adv board and I have high hopes.
We decide to bypass playing games tonight and instead to cut down magnets to prep for sales tomorrow.
We have dinner at a brew pup sort of place. Their hefeweizen isn’t as good as the bbq place’s, but their ribs and chicken is really spicy bbq and very tasty.
We return to the hotel and make pals with some people who run part of icon. They are psyched to have us there again and offer us some possible deals to try to cut our costs.The night begins to wind down. I buy a pint of chocolate cherry truffle Hagen dais ice cream in the hotel lobby and polish off most of it. It is simply divine. K-biz takes the bed again. He offers to share but I think I’m more comfortable with the floor
I awake to K-biz going , hey its 6 am. Not a big deal as this is actually sleeping late for me. Get up, get showered, get going.
I glance over at the other bed, it looks empty. Fuck, I slept on the floor for nothing???
Then I see the guy sleeping in the chair and I put on my glasses and there is a lump in the bed, a human sized one. At some time during the night our illustrious roomies seem to have slipped in.
So we head on down to the con. Apparently the info in my book is bad because the dealer’s room doesn’t open until 10, dealers get in at 8. My book says opens at 8, so dealers in at 7. We’re there over an hour early. I take the time to go pick the bag I didn’t get the day before. It does have some interesting stuff in it. There is one thing I can say for gen con and that’s hella good swag. All kinds of new dice and card game demos, with free bys. But I’m getting ahead of myself.
I grab a quick coffee and bagel (sucky) and its time for the dealer’s room to open. We quickly find that our booth partner has monopolized most of the space, but with some creative set up we get a workable space. Its now about 30 minutes until the gates of hell open. Our booth buddy shows up and we chat for a bit. He’s a nice guy, selling a card organizer that works for just about any game that uses cares. It’s a nice product, but he spent way too much to make it. Something like 60K for the mold, which is nuts for a 40$ product. Oh well, you live you learn.10 o’clock rolls by and the crowds start to file/mob in. We get some traffic right away, but no sales. I take off for a bit to explore.
I start off watching a new pirate game being demoed, which uses “gold” coins to simulate your ship crew weapons, ect. It looks really neat, but costs 20$ per set and it loos like you’ll need two sets to play, so I take my free coin and move on.
Up next us a card game , which simulates miniature war games. It’s a neat concept and playing it is kind of fun, but I can’t think of any time I’d really get a chance to play it. So I take my free space ship game for demoing and head on.
Up next is anachronism or something like that. Its another card game sponsored by the history channel, which allows you to pit some of history’s big guys against each other, like what if alaxander the great fought gengis kahn. Play is pretty easy and I really like that the game takes into account real historical information to create the characters.
From there I skip around from booth to booth for a while. The wizards booth has a giant dice you can roll and win prizes if you demo some of their stuff. I get a red hand adventure book, which looks cool.
Next I see the new order of the stick game demo. I’m there for like a minute before I’m sure I must have the game. The ling for the game is long and slow. I’m in line a full hour before making my purchase, with a collectable magnet and pin. Later in the day I find that they sold out of the game so I’m glad I didn’t decide to skip out of the line and try to get one the next day.
I come back to the booth and check in with K-biz. So far 7 sales. I stick around for a bit and we get two more, so up to 9. Fearing other stuff will sell out fast I go over to the cheap table and pick up boxes of hack/enemy and buffy the card game for like 4$. I see anyone I bringing souvenirs for getting some expansion packs for one of these games.
K-biz takes off for the night. I do my time for the day and rake in 3 more sales so we’ve got 12 total. This is about the most we’ve ever sold at a con and it’s only the first day. There is lots of interest in the adv board and I have high hopes.
We decide to bypass playing games tonight and instead to cut down magnets to prep for sales tomorrow.
We have dinner at a brew pup sort of place. Their hefeweizen isn’t as good as the bbq place’s, but their ribs and chicken is really spicy bbq and very tasty.
We return to the hotel and make pals with some people who run part of icon. They are psyched to have us there again and offer us some possible deals to try to cut our costs.The night begins to wind down. I buy a pint of chocolate cherry truffle Hagen dais ice cream in the hotel lobby and polish off most of it. It is simply divine. K-biz takes the bed again. He offers to share but I think I’m more comfortable with the floor
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