Android: Netrunner Colorado Regionals

Huzzah! I will be attending the 2013 Android: Netrunner World Championships this fall. Big thanks to Petrie's Family Games, Matt, and Tobin for all of their contributions to the Colorado Regionals event.

http://boardgamegeek.com/thread/971243/42013-colorado-regional-report

Notes

Data Raven on R&D/HQ is great at inhibiting the runner... until they decide tags are meaningless and make several runs in a row to find something. Had a minor freak out when I realized I was no longer defended at a critical moment. Runner was about to lose and made 2 runs on R&D to try and find the game-winning agenda, completely disregarding all the text on Data Raven. Lesson learned- DR is great solo defense on R&D against Criminal, but needs an ETR or damage-inflicting Ice to support it later.

My economy-attacking Criminal deck makes use of Cortez Chip, an underplayed card IMO. This card scales in usefulness as the level of competition increases. The more skilled the Corp player, the more often I see that player have exactly the amount of credits they need for their plans. A sudden Cortez Chip can devastate such plans. Used in combination with Forged Activation Orders, a critical piece of Ice can be trashed, opening the way for Gabe.

My NBN Fast Advance deck fell apart when experiencing an agenda drought. Early game, I'm usually ready to start scoring some agendas, but when the deck shuffle yields a drought, I have to find some kind of plan B to keep the runner busy. The worst games for my NBN left me making money while the runner setup his rig. Getting a steady stream of agendas (maybe 1 every 4-5 draws?) is critical to keep the runner pressured. Have to think about how to tweak that deck to keep the runner busy when I'm not scoring agendas right away.

 

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Moving Log, Supplemental

We're all moved in at the new house! Living room is essentially a box fort. But hey I put the bed together and of course my computer desk is ready to go!

It still feels weird being in the new place. It has been three years since we last moved and the previous place was our first place as a married couple. I'll miss it but there's a ton of perks to this place. I timed the walk to the light rail station at 13m37s this morning. How's that for a sign?

Dragon*Con Hiatus

A few people haven't heard the news yet. I may be absent from future Dragon*Cons for the next five years.

The reason is PAX Prime. Truth be told, I enjoy DC over PAX. For me, it's the better con due to the people I see there. However, I have to consider what's best for my career in game development.

Earlier this year, Penny Arcade ran a Kickstarter campaign to raise funds which would allow them to remove advertisements from the site. It wasn't a cause I was particularly enthused about, but one of the reward levels covered admission to every PAX event for the next five years. Considering the rising cost of badges, potential for new events, and that it includes the PAX Dev event, it was a deal I couldn't pass up.

The conflict is that PAX Prime and DC often reside on the same weekend. And by often, I mean only once did they ever not conflict.

The relationship to my career is this- DC is not a con that places much emphasis on the game industry. This year was the first year in many that had any notion of a video game track. There was only one dedicated board game vendor present. The number of players in the free play area couldn't have passed 1000 uniques in four days. Right now, PAX is where I need to be in order to grow.

GenCon day 2

I'm lying in bed, at the close of day 2 of GenCon. It's been a mega blast so far.

This is my first time at GenCon. The next closest con I've been to of this type (primary focus=tabletop games) was Origins in 1997. I can't overstate how awesome it is to see a tabletop con in 2012 after not attending one for 15 years. 30K people are here for this thing that I love.

If the people attending a con with me weren't a factor, this would probably be my favorite con. Since they are a huge factor me, this is my second favorite con. They people I've been hanging out with, Chris, Lisa, Jess, Kate, and JP are all fabulous.

I'm actually here to work the Asmadi Games booth, which is also in partnership with the Game Salute booth. I'm super excited to be working with both entities. It has been amazing to spend my days teaching and demoing games I like to con attendees. Cool to work alongside the guys from Cards Against Humanity, Tom Vasel, Tasty Minstrel Games, Cryptozoic, etc.

Some neat stuff I've seen so far:
- Sol Forge, new digital CCG
- Consequential alpha, Asmadi's new co-op story-driven episodic board game
- Goko, a company bringing cross-platform board games to desktop and mobile with HTML5
- a limo crossed with a giant chicken
- Zooloretto, an award winning Rio Grande game
- a new game sell out in 5 minutes ( Android: Netrunner)

Speaking of which, there should be some additional copies available in the morning, so I'm'a go to bed in order to be up in time to snag one.

More later.