Grab Bag Expo

Just a quick one this month. As you may be aware, UK Games Expo is almost upon us. This is the UK's biggest games convention, and takes place in the National Exhibition Centre, near Birmingham, and occupies several of the NEC halls, plus a big chunk of the nearby Hilton hotel as well as some outdoor areas. It's a big event, and runs over the coming weekend, the 30th of May to the 1st of June.

This is a huge part of my year and I'll once again be spending pretty much the whole time (at least the part when the trade halls are open) at the Playtest Zone, which will have more than 20 tables of prototype games looking for players, and those games will be changing regularly through the event, so if you fancy helping test an unpublished game, please do come along any time. We're in Hall 2 (the easy to find Stand 2-108) and it would be great to see you there.

Last year's playtest zone getting pretty busy.

I'm not planning on pitching any games this time, but will have some prototypes with me anyway. I have a playtesting slot booked for 16:30 on the Saturday (the last slot of the day), and am planning on testing The Artifact.

Other than that, I will use the free time I do have to potter about and see what (and who) I can find. I'll mostly be looking for interesting indie games, both board and roleplaying types, and I'll probably also treat myself to a new mug from Haus of Banshee (2-294). Oh, and this will be my first event as a "properly" published game designer, so I'm excited to see Gibsons (2-460) showing Grab Bag Jungle.

I'll let you know how things go.