First off I want to thank everyone who made this years meeting great. That would be everyone who attended, not only did you support it with your funding assuring that we could continue doing this you also helped out with excellent insights and feedback in the play testing process. This of course includes Will, William and Alex of Mayfair Games who have always done a great deal to support the event as well as Matt Forbeck our guest of honor.
It was a big year in many ways. The venue was moved to the Ann Arbor area, which allowed us to keep the conference space open for 15 hours a day since I live nearby. Consequently everyone got their games to the tables more and had a greater pool of testers with attendance of 33 including publishers and guests. There were many highlights including Alex Yeager’s speech on the use of cards, Matt Forbeck’s talk about being a freelancer and of course Gregg Lam’s new dexterity game that you didn’t even have to play to enjoy, it seemed to have an 8-foot pleasure radius, which caused those who entered to immediately smile. All and all there were no bad games; everyone had obviously worked hard on their projects. Numerous games were only in need of small tweaks making it a pleasure to play them. I am sure in the future we will be seeing many of these games hit the shelves.
Hope to see you all next year.
Dralius the sleep deprived
