Archive for the ‘Conventions’ Category
Posted by Kent Ward on March 16th, 2010 under Conventions, Geekin Out, Life
Tags: Baccano!, beards, Conventions, MANcast, Manime, MegaCon, panels, supreme arrogance, Terry Bogard, Twelve Laws of True Man •
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Hey everyone! Myself and the Propeller Anime Club rocked MegaCon this past weekend! We were successful with all our events and panels, even the one MegaCon almost prevented everyone from seeing! Yours truly presented several talks titled “Anime is Already Dead?”, “The Panel about Everything”, and “It’s MANIME! The Manly Anime panel.” The first two [...]
Posted by Kent Ward on February 16th, 2010 under Conventions, Geekin Out
Tags: Anime, Conventions, Manime, manly, MegaCon, panels, Propeller Anime Club, Twelve Laws of True Man •
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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 [...]
Posted by Kent Ward on December 31st, 2009 under Conventions, Games, Geekin Out, Life, Work
Tags: 2009, AFO, Anime, concerts, Dethklok, Down Right Fierce, drinking, family, full sail, Global Game Jam, manly, Mastodon, Muay Thai, Propeller Anime Club, Swords of Orlandia, Thanksgiving, Twelve Laws of True Man, Year in Review, Year of the Fighting Game •
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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, [...]
Posted by Kent Ward on October 8th, 2009 under Conventions, Games
Tags: AFO, game design, live action games, postmortem, Swords of Orlandia •
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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 [...]
Posted by Kent Ward on August 24th, 2009 under Conventions, Geekin Out, Life
Tags: Fist of the North Star, man law, Manime, manly, Mini-Megacon, panels, Twelve Laws of True Man •
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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! [...]
Posted by Kent Ward on August 20th, 2009 under Conventions, Games, Geekin Out
Tags: Arc System Works, BlazBlue, fighting games, kof, Mini-Megacon, panels, SNK, Street Fighter IV, Tatsunoko vs Capcom, Tekken 6, the king of fighters XII, Year of the Fighting Game •
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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, [...]
Posted by Kent Ward on August 12th, 2009 under Conventions, Games
Tags: AFO, Podcasts, Swords of Orlandia •
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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, [...]
Posted by Kent Ward on August 6th, 2009 under Conventions, Geekin Out
Tags: Berserk, BlazBlue, fighting games, Fist of the North Star, game shows, Jojo's Bizarre Adventure, manly, Mini-Megacon, Ninjas, panels, ranting, Robotech, Street Fighter IV, Tekken 6, the king of fighters XII, Wheldon Smiley •
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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 [...]
Posted by Kent Ward on August 5th, 2009 under Conventions, Games, Life
Tags: AFO, good deeds, live-action gaming, Swords of Orlandia •
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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 [...]
Posted by Kent Ward on July 16th, 2009 under Conventions, Games
Tags: AFO, live action games, orlando, Swords of Orlandia •
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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 [...]