Indie Game Con

Our friend Ted, who has his own game company and who used to work for Zynga and other digital game companies, organized a con to feature local independent game companies, so of course we went to see it. Today I have a migraine, and it’s in the nausea phase, but I really did okay and was able to stay there for more than an hour. J. would have wanted to stay all afternoon, but he very nicely brought me home when my stamina ran out. (Then we hung out at our respective houses for a couple hours, then we had a twilight picnic, and now he’s gone to the con’s after-party.)

Anyway... the game that most appealed to me was a very pretty wander-around-and-do-things game called Villagers and Heroes. Meanwhile, J. was trying out a medieval-fantasy version of Oregon Trail called Travelogue. I wanted to see more of Land of Retro, but it was kind of overwhelmed by little kids. J. and a bunch of others tried a game about jumping up and down on levels and trying to knock each other off – I think it was called Super Pollywoggle. Then he got into a space shooter game called, hmm, Starship Rubicon. I was intrigued by Aponivi, which was artistically different but didn’t seem to have much substance. I’d also wanted to like The Seven Sisters: Hunter’s Moon, but I didn’t devote enough attention to it to get hooked. I did like the appearance of the only card game, Widdershins, which I will probably buy as a Christmas gift. If anyone wants to see more about any of these, here’s a link.

And here’s the section of Villagers and Heroes that I saw in action: