[Deptheads] Potential Guest

[Eric Nyquist]

As strong as the current board gaming community is with well-known game designers being able to draw crowds, mixing in a more general-interest celebrity, especially with gaming designs and interest would likely be a helpful audience/attendee broadening opportunity.


Since he is nationally known, his presence and mentioning of our con could be useful in drawing a few more regional gamers.


Eric N.



-----Original Message-----
From: Victor B <fhoenix88 at yahoo.com>
To: deptheads <deptheads at strategicon.net>
Sent: Thu, Sep 13, 2012 7:24 pm
Subject: Re: [Deptheads] Potential Guest



Good idea....pending the cost and a themed con to make the most of him as a guest.
He lives in rhode island,. He is vp of Rather Dashing Games- his wife is CFO. A rhode island based game company and he is the artist for all their games. They do lots of events in new england states.
He, like any tv personality, will draw some media atttention. 
 
His show, atlantic paranormal involvement, and his steampunk ties are pluses.
He is on atlantic coast, their 3 games are all 15-30 minute card games (Red hot silly peppers, four taverns, and X-marks the spot) and are filler games they push for people to play at faires etc, and he won't appeal to the majority of people who attend a game con for gaming and gaming guests. ...are the minuses. Mostly it is cost vs return. With los angeles area celebs it is all gravy since we aren't flying any of them in and most will want to just drive up and do a saturday or sunday then go home.

If we had a steampunk or paranormal themed con for may or sept of 2013 and had other local writers, artists, vendors, etc. that were also steampunk or paranormal themed it would work great. Plus he could do the t-shirt.
I would keep this guest "bookmarked" until we get costs, and work out a convention to bring him to so wed make the most of what he brings to the table.
 
V



From: Kryssie <phantom.hopscotch at gmail.com>
To: deptheads at strategicon.net 
Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2012 4:32 PM
Subject: [Deptheads] Potential Guest



So, Grant Wilson, originally of Ghost Hunters fame, is an artist, musician, and game designer.  He's currently demo'ing his game from Rather Dashing Games (which you can find here).  Perhaps we can add him to our list of "celebrity" guests?



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