Archive for the ‘Conventions’ Category

He’s coming to a MegaCon 2010 near you!

Posted by Kent Ward on February 16th, 2010 under Conventions, Geekin Out
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Attention, fandom! MegaCon is coming up in less than a month from now and will be at the Orange County Convention Center in (hopefully!) beautiful Orlando, Florida! I will be doing events there for what I believe is the fourth year in a row! I am pretty excited about this year; the Propeller Anime Club [...]

The Final Day of the Decade!

Posted by Kent Ward on December 31st, 2009 under Conventions, Games, Geekin Out, Life, Work
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I must say 2009, you were a year that started off with a lot of promise and I used that to bring myself to the point I am at now. I really feel like I won this year. As the last decade was ending, I was just some punk kid with a bunch of dreams, [...]

Looking back on Swords of Orlandia III: A postmortem

Posted by Kent Ward on October 8th, 2009 under Conventions, Games
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Introduction:
Swords of Orlandia III is a live-action game that took place exclusively at Anime Festival Orlando 10 this past summer. Over the course of the weekend, Hundreds of people played for either the evil Shadowfowl or the less evil Anarchs to see who would control Orlandia once and for all. Players would participate in quests(both [...]

The Twelve Laws of True Man!

Posted by Kent Ward on August 24th, 2009 under Conventions, Geekin Out, Life
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Despite it’s poor attendance, Mini-Megacon this past weekend was a success for myself and my group overall when it came to doing our events. We had pretty good turn-outs at our events and some great energy for the crowd. I would have to say the event I felt was the most successful was It’s MANIME! [...]

Year of the Fighting Game: Round 2!

Posted by Kent Ward on August 20th, 2009 under Conventions, Games, Geekin Out
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This weekend is Mini-Megacon, a multi-genre geek convention being held at the Orange County Convention Center. One of the more anticipated events of the convention is “Year of the Fighting Game: Round 2″, a 90 minute panel that will cover all 2009’s fighters, including Street Fighter IV, BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger, The King of Fighters XII, [...]

Primetime Geek podcast with some of yours truly!

Posted by Kent Ward on August 12th, 2009 under Conventions, Games
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On Saturday morning at Anime Festival Orlando 1o, some guy came into the Raven’s Roost Tavern to interview myself and my student Waldo about the gameplay mechanics of Swords of Orlandia III. The discussion we recorded with him was used in one of his recent podcasts. I wish my picture for the article was better, [...]

Mini-Megacon + The M.F.K. Legend = TRUE MANLINESS!

Posted by Kent Ward on August 6th, 2009 under Conventions, Geekin Out
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I’m not getting much of a break from AFO as I have to gear up for Mini-Megacon on August 22nd and August 23rd at the Orange County Convention Center in -hopefully- sunny Orlando, Florida! This will be in smaller scope than the spring Megacon show; however, my posse are poised to help out Anime Sushi and [...]

A little story from AFO 10

Posted by Kent Ward on August 5th, 2009 under Conventions, Games, Life
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Anime Festival Orlando 10 just ended a few days ago and I have finally recovered. Swords of Orlandia III was so successful that AFO has made me a full time member of their staff as their RPG Elements Coordinator. Pretty spiff, if I do say so myself. You can send feedback about the game to [...]

Anime Festival Orlando 10 in two weeks! Time to hype Swords of Orlandia III!

Posted by Kent Ward on July 16th, 2009 under Conventions, Games
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Anime Festival Orlando, the best anime convention in Florida, will be celebrating it’s tenth year in just two weeks! The convention takes place from July 30th to August 2nd in the Wyndham Orlando Resort on International Drive in Orlando, Florida. There will be lots of fun events, guests, karaoke, panels, and cosplay in addition to [...]

Looking back on Swords of Orlandia II: A Postmortem

Posted by Kent Ward on July 10th, 2009 under Conventions, Games
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For more than a few years now, I have been heavily involved with anime conventions in Central Florida. It started out with just attending as a fan, and then I started doing panels where I talked about whatever anime or videogame I liked at the time. The past couple years, my responsibilities with conventions have [...]