Hello you. It’s been a while. That’s because my early November has been as rudely busy as ever, and this year I had to juggle numerous game-related activities, and still find time to go to The North America for a holiday. And by holiday I mean a week-long shopping spree. Man, that weak dollar is ace. Except when you get paid in dollars. Mmm.
Anyway, what I missed out on (other than suckling at the grand info-teat of Mother Internet) was the one game-convention fan-festival thing I’ve ever gone to out of my own free will (and still enjoyed): The Eve Online Fanfest in Reykjavik. My own thoughts on this particular event (the 2006 iteration) will soon be immortalised in the dead-tree tradition via a “book”, set to be published by DigitalCultureBooks in 2008. That’s a project that I’ll talk much more about closer to the time of lift-off. Others meanwhile did attend the 2007 Fanfest and came away with many different impressions of their own, including this lengthy interview-feature on Gamasutra.
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