Thanks for letting me a part of the forum. I(Jonathan Kitchens) am part of a two man team at the moment who are working on releasing our first game (a deck builder) after several years of playing, designing games for friends, modifying games for fun etc.
We'd never really considered doing a full fledged production of any of our ideas we toyed with as it seem like a field that was so difficult to get into and inaccessible. After decided we were going to go for it anyway early this year, we've realized that the community for game design is expansive and awesome. We've created a BDA entity
in Cantrip Bandits, and have several ideas in the pipeline to work on after we get this one out. I'm sure everyone starts out that idealistic!
I hope to get my biz partner on here before too long, but he's put himself into lockdown mode putting the finishing touches on game mechanics for the next two weeks or so. Hopefully we'll be able to have something to share and get some feedback on.
As a side note, We're looking at going to GenCon in Indy, IN for the first time - anyone have suggestions for how to maximize the experience? We're totally pumped - and if anyone else is going, would love to meet up!
Hopefully I've covered all the normal greetings etc - please as if I left anything out and I'll be glad to answer!
