this year is Gen cons 52nd year I've
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been here since 2004 I've been coming
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for about six or seven years now my
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career's GenCon this is our fourth year
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here at Gen Con this is my third gen
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pond and I love this show this is by far
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my favorite show I'm a huge gamer Gen
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Con is the best four days of gaming we
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have a record number amount of
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exhibitors over 500 in the exhibit hall
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we have record amount of gaming events
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going on which happened 24/7 and we're
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over 20,000 of those that happen all
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over downtown Indianapolis
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I've always been super into gaming I
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really like board games and I always
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really had a lot of fun with board games
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because I had a small friend group
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growing up and we would play everything
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College board games was just a way I
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would it's overwhelming the best way
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I've had a really awesome time few games
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from early two years I started getting
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to you know like magic the gathering and
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like the collectible card games and then
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that sort of evolved into the board
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games that we have here today working
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here coming to Gen Con coming to other
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conventions I've learned a lot about
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games and have become a game I'm not so
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much as intense as a lot of people here
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not into the big long strategy games but
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I love light fun party games family
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games locomotives is our board game we
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call it kind of a beer and pretzels game
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very quick to get into very quick to set
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up but very complex in terms of its
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strategy we realize there's several
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principles of
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I think making a game pop here one is
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it's got a replayability you can't be
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play it once in a while never play that
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differently has to have multiple ways to
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play has to have a story to be told at
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the end of the game that you can sort of
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sit around and convince and have a
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little fun with and lastly it better be
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easy to set up teardown rules have to be
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simple can't make it complex it's our
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first time exhibiting it yeah it's the
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first time exhibiting at the show but we
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did come once before a ton of our
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audiences really into role-playing games
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I got out of high school and I really
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didn't know what to do with my time I'd
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see these miniatures Warhammer
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miniatures on the shelf I thought I'd
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give that a try so I bought one bought a
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couple more and bought a couple more and
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I took some time to myself and I just
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don't deep into pain and stuff a lot of
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people need things done wine and I think
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it's a good thing to dislike both do
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some fruit some creative some positive
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when you produce something with the
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recession 2008-2009 a lot of people
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turned to playing board games again
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because it's inexpensive entertainment
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we've seen a lot more board games over
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the years surging and I just think there
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was a culture of people who grew up with
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games that now embrace everything geek
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my name flora Elliott and I own silver
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leaf costumes we design and make
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historical clothing with a little bit of
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a twist and we come to Gen Con we've
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been here for many years every time I
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come here I end up leaving with a board
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gamer choo we're all inspired by the
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same thing
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a lot of things for dandy games and
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characters the wonderful thing about Gen
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Con is but doesn't try to be anything
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that it's not but it also moves and can
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change with the culture you see a lot
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more women who game we have people here
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in their 70s and 80s that are gaming and
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you see you know families bringing kids
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in and everything in between it's a
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great convention and I think that speaks
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for itself come to judge crime
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this is the best convention you get to
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try all the things see all the things
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anyone Chicago because even if it's a
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simple outfit you get to have fun
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you
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The largest tabletop games convention in America, Gen Con is without a doubt the best four days in gaming. Almost 70,000 board game enthusiasts head to Indianapolis every year for this epic event that has been held since 1968 and just keeps getting bigger.
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