Origins, Day 2 (non-cranky version)

After the last post I did a number of things. Got tea and dropped stacks of flyers around, including in the Looney room with permission from Mr. Looney himself. Then I started feeling poorly again, so I took a nap, while daerr improved the Game Finder a bit, which was pretty neat. Woke up feeling like a new man, and ate an actually pretty tasty and reasonably priced Greek platter at the food court (still a poor substitute for the real Greek place that dictator555 adored so much, but now that we're here I doubt we'll be able to get far from this one block of Columbus; logistics makes the convention center a very deep gravity well).

Now I was ready to be social and things went pretty well. Greeted all the Looneys and the various assembled Rabbits. Everyone had something to say about Volity, and I was well pleased. Took a practice pitch-run at one of the vendors on the show floor (saving our real attack for tomorrow, as predicted). Played some Giant Zendo with zyxwvut, Ryan, and some random Origins people. Met up with misuba who interviewed us for his podcast. (Will mention here when that's ready; not until after the show.) Frequently walked past the flyer-tables to unbury and straighten my own stack after everyone else poured their own junky flyers all over it. Rough business!

Unfortunately this brings to mind another stupid thing that happened: the flyers were printed with a fairly glaring error that placed all the screenshots on irregular white rectangles, making it look like they were cut-and-pasted onto the PDF with their original white backgrounds left in. Argh! We think this is because the PDF used advanced alpha-channel features that Kinko's couldn't hack and happily ignored. Bummer. Well, the flyers still do their job, so I don't care that much.

Origins Day 3

Today we cruised five of the expo floor's eleven aisled. It went really well; a couple of people were borderline dismissive, but about twice as many were really excited to hear about us, and everyone else was interested enough to invite followup conversation after the show. If I weren't completely exhausted I'd be pretty psyched.

My favorite vendor, I think, was a guy from Sandwich, Illinois (which he described as a small farming community) who had his own invention, a multiplayer crossword game. He had made a tactical error in coming all by himself, as he had nobody to relieve him from booth duties, and after two days was a little punch drunk, enough to get confused at his own game components. But he lit up when he heard about Volity and immediately grasped how it would really benefit his mechanic, which actually does look rather clever. So he is one of many folks we are going to follow up with.

Off to get dinner and then probably just hang out in the Looney room until EOD.