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, [...]
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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 [...]
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, [...]
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, 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 [...]
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 [...]
Every year for the past four years, I have attended Anime Festival Orlando. The event has always a good time filled with lots of people with similar interests to meet and hang out with. There is roughly a small army of gamers and anime fans that go every year and the convention is filled with [...]