MiniCon Day Three: Sunday
Day Three. Three. Three days. I’m telling you, writing this is almost the same as doing it all over again. Well, not quite.
The big difference between the Ultimate Heroic Weekend (MiniCon, same thing) and any other show we do was simply time. At most shows, we spend an entire day on the show floor, but then with a usually audible sigh of relief (or more likely, cheer of elation) we pack up and go out – or go home.
(The one exception is The Show To End All Shows; the Games Convention in Germany. It’s five days long. Proud monuments stand in the aisles of der Leipziger Messegelände, honoring the booth workers who have fallen there.)
At Omega Sektor though, while we did leave the venue, we never really left the show. So by Day Three… it was starting to wear us down a bit.
Three Orange Whips, I guess
No early morning realisations of doom for me on Sunday, but instead just straight down to breakfast when I really would have preferred a lie-in. Generally at shows I try and ‘rally the troops’ a bit at breakfast, get them ready for the day, or just talk… Continue reading
MiniCon Day Two: Saturday
I warn you: this post is long. Like, epic long, Task Force long… long. So grab a drink, maybe some popcorn, sit back, relax… and hear the tale of the 2008 Omega Sektor MiniCon, Day Two: Saturday.
Wake up, Rockjaw
Saturday started bleary-eyed in bed, where I woke up at about 6AM with half a hangover and not enough sleep. Both were my own fault, so I couldn’t complain.
I remember lying there in bed savouring the quiet time before I knew I had to get up, when out of the blue, some part of my semi-awake consciousness asked me a question:
“Hey Stephen; can you remember the PIN number for the credit card machine?”
Instantaneous reply: no.
“But if you don’t know the PIN, how are people going to pay for stock, merchandise and/or make charity donations with their credit (and debit) cards, hmmm?”
My eyes snapped open. A cold sweat broke out. Great start to the day.
I hopped out of bed and sent a text to Chris, who replied immediately – a mistake, because now I knew he was up. After a quick phone call, we agreed that neither of us knew the PIN for certain.… Continue reading
Listen to this: MiniCon interviews
If you’d like to hear all manner of NCsoft staff talking up a storm (plus Draw the World Together artists like David Nakayama and Andrew Wildman, to boot) then Split Infinity Radio and MusicWorldRadio have you covered, baby.
I had the pleasure of talking over the weekend with Riff, AKA Scarlet Shocker, of MusicWorldRadio, and also with Simon, AKA DJ Villain, of Split Infinity. Both had plenty of questions to ask and I hope I answered ‘em well. I’d like to thank them both for taking the time out to come down to the event and do the interviews – I hope you had a good time guys, and we’ll definitely see you next year!
Keep reading for all the links and information you need….
Split Infinity Radio presents…
First of all, Split Infinity have a bunch of different interviews live. You can get to an index of all of them from this news story, but if you prefer you can download the MP3s directly. The links below are all separate MP3 downloads, so you can get each one easily. The interviews include all of the following peeps:
From NCsoft Europe
- Avatea – One-woman… Continue reading
Andie Tong and Neil Edwards show off
Two of our Draw the World Together artist friends, Andie Tong and Neil Edwards, have been showing off new stuff on their blogs recently. Andie’s been having ‘fun with markers’ and has been cranking out sketches like this one of Spider-Woman:
That doesn’t do it justice though – go see the full size version on his site, and make sure to check out the other sketches he’s done there recently.
Neil, on the other hand, is showing off early visuals from a new project he’s working on. Man of few words, that Neil (at least on his blog) so I’ll just let the art do the work as I’m not sure how much he wants to be said:
Again, go to his site for the full-size version… and remember both of these guys will be sketching for Draw the World Together at the Bristol Comic Expo (although I hasten to add, Andie will be flitting around – he’s in a lot of demand!!).
TGR talk to Melissa ‘War Witch’ Bianco
… on video, and show inside the first minute that once again, relying on Wikipedia for facts isn’t always a good idea.
(Or at least, it’s not a good idea to mention that you’re relying on it.)
Things pick up a bit after that, and Melissa gets some good answers in. Anyway, it’s here to watch. Also: Andrew ‘Draw the World Together’ Wildman.
Some days my job is awesome
Quite a few days, actually… but then some days I get things like this in my inbox:
Even being a small part of making that happen… well dang, I feel pretty damn good.
(It’s another image for our sketchbook, by the way, by the amazingly, stupidly talented Andie Tong. Ta Andie!)
Wednesday? Thursday?
Being ill on Tuesday gave me a feeling of ‘Must get more done!’ all day… and left me unsure which day it actually was.
- Early on, find out that Andrew Wildman’s posted all of the sketches we’ve had done so far for the DTWT sketchbook on his blog! I suggest he take ‘em down and preserve some mystery…
- Figuring the cat’s out of the bag I post a teaser to the COH EU Forums – the Statesman (1930s era) that Ian Churchill did (seen right). I start to wonder just how many of the original sketches I may have to bid on when we put ‘em up for auction. Possibly all of them… and I’ll get beaten by players, I just know it.
- Call Andrew as scheduled to discuss secret stuff. That leads to an internal conversation about that call, more emails and probably a meeting next week.
- Hear our iMacs should arrive next week. Just in time for my hols. Dammit!
- Get a sketch in from Mike – someone he’s drawn before, but in colour and in a style I’d not seen. It’s lovely stuff. I email him to say thanks and subtly remind him he owes me a… Continue reading
