Hi Gang!
My name is Preston and I live in Metro Atlanta. I'm not a game designer (yet, anyway), but I am enamored by the process and love board gaming. I'm a staff writer for GeekDad and I get to see a bunch of cool games come across the wire - more than I can keep up with. Coming here to learn what I can about the process of creating, funding, producing, and marketing a game from scratch!
I also am the founder of The Southern-Fried Gameroom Expo in Atlanta. For 2016, we've expanded beyond our traditional arcade, pinball, and console game programming to add board games and tabletop gaming to the mix. This year we've got John Kovalic as our headlining board game guest.
I'm hoping you all can turn me on to some great new projects! Looking forward to the fun!
Hi Gabe, we'll have at least a few, but we're working on having more tabletop vendors. We will also have several game companies offering demos and a variety of designers on panel discussions. We're going to have 14,000 square feet of open tabletop space with tournaments, play-to-wins, and 24 hour gaming all weekend. Based on last years attendance, we're anticipating over 3,000 attendees.
But wait...there's more! There's also 250+ arcade, pinball, and console video game systems on free play, a film festival, and live music! I hope you can make it, I think you'd really enjoy it! I hope I get to meet you in person soon.