#600: Conventions

Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast

Wizards of the Coast

Duels Of The Planeswalkers, Games, Magic The Gathering, Leisure, Game Design, Mtg, Ccg, Mark Rosewater

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🗓️ 4 January 2019

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Gaming conventions have played a big role in Magic's history. In this podcast, I talk about many of the key ones that have intersected with Magic.

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0:00.0	I'm pulling out a driveway. We all know what that means. It's time from the drive to work.
0:06.0	Okay. Today I'm going to talk all about conventions. So one of the things that we do in the game industry is we have lots of game conventions.
0:18.0	Not all of them are exactly game conventions. Some of them are broader,
0:21.3	but games are part of it. And so one of the things that we do is we go to a lot of conventions,
0:26.8	we being wizards, goes to a lot of conventions, and I personally have been to a lot of conventions.
0:31.0	And it dawned on me that there were a lot of interesting focal points in magic that all sort of revolved around
0:39.6	different conventions. So I'm going to talk about different gaming
0:42.6	conventions and the roles magic interacted with them. So
0:46.3	I hope you guys enjoy it. So we're so JenCon. So Jen Con
0:51.2	is a convention. I think it's now held in Indianapolis.
0:54.5	It used to be held in Milwaukee.
0:57.3	So before Dungeon Dragons was owned by Wizards of the Coast,
1:01.6	it was owned by a company named TSR.
1:04.6	I don't know what that stands for.
1:06.5	It's a good trivia question, but I don't.
1:09.1	So, TSR was in Wisconsin.
1:15.4	I think they're in Milwaukee.
1:17.5	Anyway, they started a convention, I think it was back in the 70s,
1:21.3	as a role-playing convention, mostly for Dungeon Dragons.
1:24.2	But over the years, it sort of grew and became, I mean, at its
1:29.6	core, it's a role-playing game convention, but it's become more than just that, and there's
1:33.4	a lot of other games and stuff there, and I think Gen Con is the biggest gaming convention,
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