Thanks to Everyone!

Thanks to everyone who attended this year’s Emerald City Gamefest!  On behalf of all the members of the Flying Committee, we hope you enjoyed yourselves, and look forward to seeing you next year!

What do you think of this monkey?

Here’s a preview of the art for this year’s Emerald City Gamefest (click on the image to see larger version). At the last Gamefest planning meeting, we decided to go with “frugal monkey” as the theme for our November 2009 game day. We figured that in these crappy economic times, a free game day was [...]

Recap: Viva Las Vegas, Part 1

Following the fun we had with the first episode of Knights of the Realm recently, I turned the game into a recurring online game played via Skype and open to drop-in players. If you missed the first episode, the premise is this: Everyone is playing aging knights of the realm. Then dragons show up — [...]

Pre-program available!

The PDF file of the program is available for viewing on Scribd. A word of warning: the file is “imposed” for printing on tabloid-size paper, which means the pages are in the following order: 8, 1, 2, 7, 6, 3, 4, 5. See over 40 games to choose from!

More Guests at ECG!

In addition to author Erik Scott de Bie, mentioned in a previous news release, we have more confirmed guests for this year’s Emerald City Gamefest game day on November 15. Also returning after his popular visit last year is Wolfgang Baur, well known for his Open Design Project, his work on D&D supplements, and his [...]

Author Erik Scott de Bie a guest at ECG!

Author Erik Scott de Bie has agreed to be our guest this year again. He is best known for his two Forgotten Realms novels, Ghostwalker and Depths of Madness as well as his FR short stories. Last year, Erik ran his Song of Ice and Fire game, “Wolfling in Distress,” and everyone had a great [...]

Gamefest on target for November fun!

Planning is accelerating for this November’s Emerald City Gamefest. Expect to see the registration page and the ECG virtual store go live in the next few days. We have also been discussing the table layout and will make it easier for players to find the games they are looking for.

Emerald City Gamefest

National Games Week 2006, organized by Games Quarterly Magazine, will be taking place on November 19-25 (Thanksgiving week). Several groups of gamers in the Greater Seattle/Puget Sound area are collaborating to organize an all-day event on Saturday November 25, 2006. The event will be entirely free; there will be no fee to come in, to [...]