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It’s been a few days, but I wanted to post something about my time at Penny Arcade Expo (PAX) last weekend with Riad, Gautham, and George. To sum it up, I had an absolute blast.
Being a fan of the web comic, all of the panels headed up by Mike and Jerry (or Gabe and Tycho, if you prefer) were a lot of fun, but I think the convention has so much to offer that even those who don’t really read Penny Arcade have plenty to do and see.
Highlights for me were:
- The keynote speech by Ken Lavine where he admitted to having a teenage crush on the Scarlet Witch (kind of an interesting statement in these post House of M days)
- The “make a strip” panel where they drew this past Mondays comic live
- Our pitch of Eco-Slayer in the “pitch your game idea” panel which really got the crowd going and scored us three honorable mentions. George wrote more about the experience on his blog here.
- Awesome concert performances; most notably the OneUps, MC Frontalot, and the Minibosses.
I also saw some cool games:
- Project Origin (which made me forget the ridiculous number of keyboard commands I needed to play it’s prequel: F.E.A.R.)
- Little Big Planet
- InFamous
- Resistance 2 (well, the multiplayer part of it )
- Gears of War 2 (cool, even though I don’t own an Xbox 360 (yet…?)
- Tom Clancy’s HAWX looks like the first cool flight game I’ve seen in a long time (no, I’m not counting Warhawk in that category)
- Mirror’s Edge (I actually managed not to barf while watching someone else play)
I also got to try Brawndo and now have a better understanding of why plants crave it so much. I think I’ll probably head back next year too and in 2010 there’s going to be a PAX East in Boston which would make for a pretty awesome time as well.