dreamation

Dreamation 2024: Post-Pandemic, All Fun

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Last weekend we went to the first Dreamation since February 2020, just a few short weeks before the world shut down. It was great to be back. It was great to see old friends and make new ones. It’s been a difficult few years for the Double Exposure team, but they still always present a … Read more

Dreamation 2020

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Another February, another Dreamation! I did some great gaming this weekend. On Thursday, Richard and I hacked Swords Without Master into a two-player game of improvisational sword and sorcery adventure. We were opposed by the nefarious Guild of Provisioners to steal a Horn of Plenty, and pursued by an immense, surreal maw rising from beneath. … Read more

Dreamation 2019 – 15th annual IGX

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Had a good first full day at Dreamation. Started the day offering With Great Power for two players who had signed up for +Tony Lower-Basch ‘s Capes game. We had fun with an altruistic superhero whose parents wanted her to make some money of her powers, and a hero who was plagued by demons that caused calamity wherever he went.

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The First IGX at Dreamation

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I found this gem in the Wayback Machine, our first Indie Games Explosion at Dreamation 2005. https://web.archive.org/web/20041212115812/http://incarnadine.indie-rpgs.com:80/ige.html And the schedule grid, handmade by me in CorelDRAW: We offered 26 game sessions and 3 seminars. This year, for our 15th annual IGX, we’ll be offering well over 80 sessions, including some of those same games that … Read more

Dreamation 2016

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Wow. What a #Dreamation. As always, Vinny, Avie, and the entire Double Exposure crew made great things happen flawlessly and invisibly. They are amazing and I thank them deeply. Jason Morningstar compared Dreamtion to a family reunion and he’s absolutely right. Except that there’s more people I’m excited to see at Dreamation. Thursday, 8PM For … Read more

Some history of the Indie Games eXplosion: The early years!

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Over on Google Plus, James Stuart asked about the history of the IGX. I started typing, and I wanted to preserve it somewhere that I wouldn’t lose it. https://plus.google.com/u/0/112165300112510479765/posts/GDDVGX2GPqw Holy smokes, how much detail do you want? Most importantly, how much detail do I want to write? *Prehistory* The IGE did not leap fully formed from … Read more

Dreamation 2010 – An Island of Sanity (Part One)

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For months and months, I’ve been somebody else. A troubled, heartsick, disgusted, frustrated, isolated, curmudgeonly version of me. Not every day, but more often than not. And for the last four days, I had a chance to take off that heavy, confining suit, and put on a better skin–to be a better version of me. … Read more