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Eclipse Phase night at Gamma Ray Games, Seattle

Submitted by jackgraham on

Eclipse Phase writer and sometime online marketing helper monkey Jack Graham (that's me) will run one awesome session of EP this Thursday, 7/22/2010, at Gamma Ray Games in Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood.

It'll be at 6:30 pm. Please ping the game store on their Facebook page to RSVP.



Sorry for the short notice on this. I've been doing the Clarion West writer's workshop, and gaming, like sleeping, eating, and shaving my beard, has taken a back seat to writing sci-fi.

We'll be playing Doctrine, the scenario that I wrote for Gen Con this year. Secret Club Date! Sneak Preview! Holy Cats, Octomorph!

Hope to see some of y'all there.

GenCon Interviews

Submitted by RobBoyle on

If any bloggers, podcasters, or other new media journalistas out there will be at GenCon and feel like poking and prodding at me, Brian, Adam, and/or Jack, we'll all be there too and can make ourselves available for your examinations. We'd be happy to talk about Eclipse Phase, upcoming projects, Posthuman Studios, the game industry, transhumanism, and politics of various persuasions. If you want the juicy stuff, you are encouraged to buy us drinks. Just sayin'.

In all seriousness, we're starting to set our schedules for the con, so please contact us soon if you want to set up a  time!

[REVISED] Schedule of Eclipse Phase Events at PAX East

Submitted by jackgraham on

UPDATE: I had to make some schedule changes. Real quick: 2 hour demo is now on Saturday; 4 hour game is on Sunday (same time slots).

Below is a list of Eclipse Phase games scheduled for PAX East. PAX East will be happening at Hynes Convention Center in downtown Boston from March 26-28 (this weekend!). Badges are mostly sold out, but if you've got one, come play Eclipse Phase! I'll be running two brand spankin' new scenarios. The longer event, "El Destino Verde" incorporates some of the background on Mars I wrote for Sunward.

PAX doesn't guarantee table space unless you're running a tournament or paying them for it (weird, right?), so I'm going to be running this in the free play area. If you have a jeejah, I'll be using the EP twitter account to provide more precise location details once I know where I'll be. I'll also be working as a PAX Enforcer all weekend in the tabletop area, so stop by and say hello!

Eclipse Phase Games:

Schedule of Eclipse Phase Events at PAX East

Submitted by jackgraham on

Below is a list of Eclipse Phase games scheduled for PAX East. PAX East will be happening at Hynes Convention Center in downtown Boston from March 26-28 (this weekend!). Badges are mostly sold out, but if you've got one, come play Eclipse Phase! I'll be running two brand spankin' new scenarios. The longer event, "El Destino Verde" incorporates some of the background on Mars I wrote for Sunward.

PAX doesn't guarantee table space unless you're running a tournament or paying them for it (weird, right?), so I'm going to be running this in the free play area. If you have a jeejah, I'll be using the EP twitter account to provide more precise location details once I know where I'll be. I'll also be working as a PAX Enforcer all weekend in the tabletop area, so stop by and say hello!

Eclipse Phase Games:
Friday
10am-12pm
 Hypnogogia Demo (2 hours)

Brian's Biopolitics Talk Online

Submitted by RobBoyle on

The talk EP co-creator Brian Cross gave at last year's Biopolitics of Popular Culture seminar is now online in MP3 format. The topic of his presentation was "Talking Transhumanism at the Table: Designing Games for Non-transhumanist Audiences." Here's a summary:

In creating, publishing, and promoting Eclipse Phase we wanted to make a product that made an deliberate effort to engage with explicitly transhumanist and political themes but would deal with these issues in a way that complete novices to them would be able to grok.  I’ll discuss some of the issues that we encountered in making a game with an agenda, how we tried to make complicated transhuman and ethical issues interesting to play with, and some of the complications that have arisen since the game was published.

The slides from the talk can also be found in PDF format here.

Looking for GMs

Submitted by RobBoyle on

Are you attending Origins or GenCon? Are you interested in gamemastering some Eclipse Phase sessions? If so, get in touch! We're looking for GMs to help us run some games. We'll provide the scenarios and Catalyst Game Labs offers a compensation package based on how many hours of games you run.

Schedule of Eclipse Phase Events at TempleCon (Warwick, RI convention this February)

Submitted by jackgraham on

Below is a list of Eclipse Phase games scheduled for TempleCon. TempleCon is a classy little New England gaming convention (now in its fourth year), held at the Crowne Plaza in Warwick, Rhode Island from February 5-7, 2010. The scenarios will be the same ones we ran at Gen Con (and will run at Arisia) this year. I'll be running the games, possibly with help from some other members of the EP writing crew.

Eclipse Phase Games:
Friday
6pm-8pm
 Intro to EP Demo (2 hours)
Saturday
10pm-12pm Intro to EP Demo (2 hours)
2pm-6pm An Inconvenient Death Full slot (4 hours)
Sunday

Schedule of Eclipse Phase Events at Arisia (Cambridge, MA convention this January)

Submitted by jackgraham on

Below is a list of Eclipse Phase games scheduled for Arisia. Arisia is New England's largest sci-fi convention and will be held at the Hyatt Regency in Cambridge, Massachusetts from January 15-18, 2010. The scenarios will be the same ones we ran at Gen Con this year. I'll be running the games, possibly with help from some other members of the EP writing crew.

Eclipse Phase Games:
Friday
7pm-9pm
 Intro to EP Demo (2 hours)
Saturday
2pm-4pm Intro to EP Demo (2 hours)
6pm-10pm An Inconvenient Death Full slot (4 hours)
Sunday

Brian's presentation from the IEET conference

Submitted by kylleran on

As promised here are the slides for the talk I will shortly be giving for the IEET conference which you can, if you want, watch live here and which I believe they will be archiving
The talk is on how we (and you) can take some of the heavier ideas about H+ and spin them in a way that has broader appeal to people who may not be familiar with H+ ideas.

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