GenCon: The Unpub Perspective
Wow. Yes, it's taken me the whole week to get to the point where I could talk about GenCon! I arrived in Indianapolis Friday afternoon. Prototypes were already being played all over the place. A lot of what I got to see was at the Game Salute Booth (2035) where every time I stopped by […]
WBC Recap
Over the weekend I attended the World Board Gaming Championships in Lancaster, PA. This event is put on each year by the Boardgame Player's Association and is basically a week long gaming extravaganza. They run tournaments for 100 or so games and that's their main thing, but they have a beautiful open gaming room that […]
Recap: Unpub Mini at 7th Dimension Games
What an awesome time we had on Saturday! I even had a chance to sit down and play some games!That's pretty much my first thought about our Unpub Mini on June 23rd at 7th Dimension Games! Glen and the staff of 7th Dimension were awesome to work with. Their is a beautiful game store in […]
Too Many Games Convention Notes!
Thanks go out to Jason Tagmire for inviting me to help judge a 24 hour game design competition at the Too Many Games Convention this past weekend in Oaks,Pennsylvania. It was a really fun experience for me (despite being exhausted after a long week.) My girlfriend, Katherine, and I drove up on Sunday for the […]
News Brief!
It is with great pride and a little trepidation that I report Unpub.net and our recent shenanigans at Origins are featured on the new Dicehatme.com State of Games podcast. The podcast isn't up yet, but it will be soon. Check back for an updated link... or bookmark them and check back in over there. I'm […]
Origins 2012: Unpub Report
We did it friends and supporters. We showed up at Origins and made a unified space for unpublished games and designers to present and play-test their games. We met a lot of fantastic people and played a lot of fantastic games over the three days we opened our area. Here's a brief recap of what […]
Unpub At Origins! (Day 2 of Origins Report!)
We are having a blast at Origins! We opened up our Unpub area at around 1:30pm today and I've pretty much been here all day. It's nearly 3:00am on Friday now. What's happening right now in the Unpub area? Well, Brian Lewis (designer of Titans of Industry being published by Gozer Games) is presenting a […]
Recap: Unpub Mini Labyrinth Game Shop May 27, 2012
Washington, DC is our Nation's Capital (if you happen to live in the United States,) and on Sunday May 27,2012 Washington, DC was home to one of the biggest Unpub events ever! Our wonderful host store for this Unpub Mini was Labyrinth Game Shop, just a couple blocks from the Capital building! They were awesome […]
Compounding Success!
Wow. For the second day in a row I get to announce that an Unpub game has found a publisher! I couldn't be happier! Today I am pleased to announce that Darrell Louder's Compounded has been picked up by Dice Hate Me Games! Many of you are familiar with the wonderful reviews and pod casts […]
Another Success Story!
We're pleased to announce, along with Nevermore Games, that they've officially picked up a game by Unpub participant Benjamin Rosset! Ben's game The Market was presented at Unpub2 and at the Unpublished games event we co-hosted last summer at Games and Stuff in Glen Bernie, MD. Since then it has traveled to other cons and into […]