Topic: Indie Games Explosion at Gencon Indy 2009
Started by: SaintandSinner
Started on: 4/13/2009
Board: Conventions
On 4/13/2009 at 8:36pm, SaintandSinner wrote:
Indie Games Explosion at Gencon Indy 2009
For those of you going to Gencon Indy this year, this is the list of IGE events (so far). Apparently we have all the events in the Omni Fisher Ballroom.
Artesia: Adventures in the Known World
RPG0902182 Thu 9:00 AM 4 Hours
RPG0902353 Fri 9:00 AM 4 Hours
"The Bloodstained Chair"
Magister Gause has been found dead in his chambers; an engraved dagger plunged into his back. The Gray College of Westmark is in shock. There is a murderer loose in the halls of the college and a chair on the school's governing council that needs to be filled. Any one of the men vying for the empty chair could have had a hand in Magister Gause's death; but which one?
Chronica Feudalis
RPG0902797 Fri 1:00 PM 4 Hours
RPG0902798 Sat 1:00 PM 4 Hours
"Warwick Castle"
Scheme your way through a banquet of political intrigue at the 12th century manor of Roger de Beaumont, the Earl of Warwick. Make allies and enemies throughout the medieval feast and then hash out your differences on the field of the melee tournament.
Fae Noir
RPG0904219 Fri 10:00 AM 4 Hours
RPG0904220 Fri 10:00 AM 4 Hours
RPG0904221 Fri 2:00 PM 4 Hours
RPG0904222 Sat 10:00 AM 4 Hours
"Still Waters"
Sleepy Illinois town becomes boomtown thanks to the miraculous healing power of its mineral springs. Are the springs actually magical or is it all a hoax? And why are there so many ghosts?
Ganakagok
RPG0902816 Sat 1:00 PM 4 Hours
"The People of the Ice"
Forever have the people lived in starlight cold, but now the Dawn is coming. A tarot-like oracle drives the play of this narration-intensive game of people facing the end of their world.
Grey Ranks
RPG0903020 Thu 9:00 PM 4 Hours
Play child soldiers in the doomed Warsaw uprising of 1944. Childhood innocence is shattered by the horrors of guerilla war. Take part in a new kind of intense role-play experience. Winner of the 2008 Diana Jones award for Excellence in Gaming. For mature players. Mature (18+)
Houses of the Blooded
RPG0902799 Sat 10:00 AM 4 Hours
"The Well of Shadows"
A dark well has opened at the edge of your Count's lands. Since he is away at the Senate it has fallen to you, his 'trusted' advisors and vassals to resolve this matter before his return. Although deep in Winter, your master is cunning and cruel. No one dares to ignore a threat (or opportunity)... you must learn what the growing shadow represents at all costs.
How We Came to Live Here
RPG0903869 Thu 2:00 PM 4 Hours
"What Lurks Beneath "
Two brothers love the same woman. Will kinship or desire win out, or will everyone fall prey to whatever lurks in the White Cavern below the village. A fantasy based on myths of the American Southwest. Mature (18+)
RPG0903871 Fri 9:00 AM 4 Hours
"There Can Be Only One"
A year has past and the greatest hunter in the village has failed to find and kill the water serpent who will soon return to take another child. The aging chief has promised his rank to the hero that destroys the serpent, but the honor only goes to one, and there are many who seek it. Will the chief's challenge unite his troubled people or will their own ambitions tear them apart? Mature (18+)
RPG0903873 Sun 9:00 AM 4 Hours
"Of Flames and Famine"
The Oracle has foretold a terrible famine following the sudden death of the Corn Handmaiden. But the girl chosen to take her place is the focus of an unlikely love triangle. Will someone step up and be a hero to the village or will the heroes risk everything to follow the forbidden desires of their hearts? Mature (18+)
Games on Demand
RPG0902979 Fri 10:00 AM 4 Hours
RPG0902980 Fri 2:00 PM 4 Hours
RPG0902981 Sat 10:00 AM 4 Hours
RPG0902982 Sat 2:00 PM 4 Hours
RPG0902983 Sun 10:00 AM 4 Hours
Numerous indie/small press games will be available for anyone interested. Sign up for games with the table custodians and play a new game immediately. Availability of particular games will be determined by the table custodians and the available game masters. Generic tickets only.
Misery Bubblegum
RPG0904073 Fri 11:00 AM 2 Hours
"Miracle Girl Squad!"
When Gina learns that her friend-and-doormat Stacey has manifested divine powers (as high school kids sometimes do), she sets out to form a Squad to right wrongs and rid her school of injustice... even if she has to invent the injustice from whole cloth, in order to have it to fight. Will Gina get her way? Will Stacy work up the nerve to talk to Roger? And what about Meg? Mature (18+)
RPG0904075 Sat 2:00 PM 2 Hours
"Star of the Show"
When casting calls go out for the Drama Club's new production of Romeo and Juliet, simmering romantic tensions start to come to a boil. Who will get the coveted roles, and the on-stage kiss (not to mention rehearsals!)? Will jealousies erupt into cat-fights and breakups? We can only hope! Mature (18+)
Mortal Coil
RPG0903865 Fri 2:00 PM 4 Hours
What do your dreams hold? What nightmares lurk in the growing darkness? What strange and twisted realms exist just beyond your sight? Enter a world of magic and myth. You will take the part of strange creatures, powerful sorcerers, or mundane people swept up in the mystery. Play a game where magic can take any form and your character could change the world. Fri 6:00 PM Mature (18+)
Mouse Guard
RPG0902531 Fri 10:00 AM 4 Hours
"Secrets of the North: Dunedain Rangers"
You are the Dunedain Rangers, sworn defenders of the Realms and personal envoys of King Elessar. A new danger has cut off contact with your people in the struggling Northern Realm of Arnor. At the same time new incursions from the edges of Ithilien have stretched Gondor's Rangers dangerously thin. The King has sent you to restore contact, discover the cause of the problems and, if possible, resolve the situation.
Spirit of the Century
RPG0902115 Thu 1:00 PM 4 Hours
"Rex Rich and the Warlord of Mars"
Join Rex Rich and his friends as they launch the Redhawk rocket-plane to win a War Department contract for an intercontinental interceptor. But little do they realize that Rex's old enemies the Futurians are up to no good, and their machinations may embroil the whole world in an interplanetary war!
RPG0902892 Fri 6:00 PM 4 Hours
"Yangtze Rocket Patrol"
China, 1937. The soldiers of the Yangtze Rocket Patrol guard the interests of the U.S. at the International Settlement in Shanghai, little realizing that the schemes of their deadly nemesis Warlord Hong will embroil them in their deadliest adventure yet!
Starblazer Adventures
RPG0902146 Thu 8:00 PM 4
"Orks of Hazzard"
A couple o' good ol' Orks never meanin' no harm. Will Commissar Hogg finally git them Ork Boyz?
The Mountain Witch
RPG0903041 Thu 2:00 PM 4 Hours
RPG0903042 Sat 9:00 AM 4 Hours
"Blood on Snow"
Hidden away in his mountain fortress, the Mountain Witch destroys the lives of men. A group of ronin have gathered to make the perilous journey up Mt. Fuji to destroy the evil there. Will the ronin bond together in trust and brotherhood and overcome their enemy? Or will the Mountain Witch be triumphant and ruin more lives?
Trail of Cthulhu
RPG0902114 Fri 1:00 PM 4 Hours
"I, Governor..., or; The Unpleasant Profession of Upton Sinclair"
In 1934, California is wracked by the woes of the Great Depression, and muckraking ex-Socialist Upton Sinclair has a plan to 'End Poverty in California.' But has Sinclair's campaign rhetoric awoken a slumbering evil? Join young Navy veteran Bob Heinlein, Berkeley professor Paul Taylor, girl reporter Adela St. Johns, and movie producer Irving Thalberg in a Mythos adventure ripped from the pages of history.