Dateline: 05-14-2007

Gaming

If you’ve ever played an RPG, computer game, card game, or strategy game to the exclusion of all other interests at least once in their life, CONvergence Gaming needs YOU!

SUGGESTIONS! CONvergence Gaming shouldn’t only cater to hard-core gamers, we want to provide a full experience for everyone! To do this, we need suggestions above all else. CONvergence Gaming’s main location is in a series of conference rooms on the swank 22nd Floor (they tend to be quieter and better suited for many games). Putting board and strategy games down in ConSuite helped reach more gamers throughout the convention, and we’re always open for more suggestions to do better.

The 22nd Floor needs its own badgers. Sign up ahead of time to reserve your preferred shift!

We’re looking to borrow computers that can run Quake 3 and other games and use them in our LAN Gaming Room (Mac, Linux, or Windows computers are just fine). We’re looking for machines with at least a 500MHz processor, 256MB RAM, and a 3D graphics card.

The Game Library will return, so be sure to contact us to donate anything for the convention! Help us keep this CONvergence tradition alive by donating your used games to a truly grateful community!

If you want to RUN an RPG, computer game, card game, board or strategy game, or even a LARP, just contact one of Gaming’s Sub-Heads at the emails listed below! Let them know when you’d like to run it, how many hours it’ll take (we tend to schedule things in 1-1/2 hour blocks; most RPGs, therefore, tend to be 4-1/2 hours long), and how many players you’d like to accommodate. Get us the information early and we’ll even get it in print before the convention! You can even earn VOLUNTEER HOURS this way. Hours that you put into preparing for a game before the convention count towards your total number of volunteer hours! Mind you, these have to be hours spent on making something solely for the convention, but you’re creative, but you can do it!

Gaming Sub-Heads

• Board and Strategy Games: Don Hackett
• RPGs and LARPs: Lisa Pepin
• Card Games: Robert Polzin

To inquire about 22nd Floor badging, loaning computers, the Game Library, or if you have suggestions, contact Gaming Department Head David J. Rust at gaming@convergence-con.org.