Events

If any bloggers, podcasters, or other new media journalistas out there will be at GenCon and feel like poking and prodding at me, Brian, Adam, and/or Jack, we'll all be there too and can make ourselves available for your examinations. We'd be happy to talk about Eclipse Phase, upcoming projects, Posthuman Studios, the game industry, transhumanism, and politics of various persuasions. If you want the juicy stuff, you are encouraged to buy us drinks. Just sayin'.

In all seriousness, we're starting to set our schedules for the con, so please contact us soon if you want to set up a  time!

UPDATE: I had to make some schedule changes. Real quick: 2 hour demo is now on Saturday; 4 hour game is on Sunday (same time slots).

Below is a list of Eclipse Phase games scheduled for PAX East. PAX East will be happening at Hynes Convention Center in downtown Boston from March 26-28 (this weekend!). Badges are mostly sold out, but if you've got one, come play Eclipse Phase! I'll be running two brand spankin' new scenarios. The longer event, "El Destino Verde" incorporates some of the background on Mars I wrote for Sunward.

PAX doesn't guarantee table space unless you're running a tournament or paying them for it (weird, right?), so I'm going to be running this in the free play area. If you have a jeejah, I'll be using the EP twitter account to provide more precise location details once I know where I'll be. I'll also be working as a PAX Enforcer all weekend in the tabletop area, so stop by and say hello!

Eclipse Phase Games:

Saturday, March 27
10am-12pm	Hypnagogia	Demo (2 hours)
Sunday, March 28
10pm-2pm	El Destino Verde	Full slot (4 hours)

Demo: I'll be running a new two hour demo scenario, "Hypnogogia."

El Destino Verde: Martian workers with genetic faults in their morphs have been turning to traditional Chinese medicine for a quick fix. But what's the secret ingredient in the special sauce?

The talk EP co-creator Brian Cross gave at last year's Biopolitics of Popular Culture seminar is now online in MP3 format. The topic of his presentation was "Talking Transhumanism at the Table: Designing Games for Non-transhumanist Audiences." Here's a summary:

In creating, publishing, and promoting Eclipse Phase we wanted to make a product that made an deliberate effort to engage with explicitly transhumanist and political themes but would deal with these issues in a way that complete novices to them would be able to grok.  I’ll discuss some of the issues that we encountered in making a game with an agenda, how we tried to make complicated transhuman and ethical issues interesting to play with, and some of the complications that have arisen since the game was published.

The slides from the talk can also be found in PDF format here.

Below is a list of Eclipse Phase games scheduled for TempleCon. TempleCon is a classy little New England gaming convention (now in its fourth year), held at the Crowne Plaza in Warwick, Rhode Island from February 5-7, 2010. The scenarios will be the same ones we ran at Gen Con (and will run at Arisia) this year. I'll be running the games, possibly with help from some other members of the EP writing crew.

Eclipse Phase Games:

Friday
6pm-8pm	Intro to EP	Demo (2 hours)
Saturday
10pm-12pm	Intro to EP	Demo (2 hours)
2pm-6pm	An Inconvenient Death	Full slot (4 hours)
Sunday
2pm-6pm	Bump in the Night	Full slot (4 hours)

Demo: I'll probably be running half of the adventure from the Quick Start Rules.

Bump in the Night: People are waking with a small knot on their forehead. 3 days later, they disappear. It is up to you to discover what is happening and rectify the problem.

Inconvenient Death: Dying on a mission really gets in the way of completing it.