May Games Convention List update

Sixteen gaming cons added to the list this month.  This includes eight from overseas and a number of start-up game cons in their first year.  

Germany Game Con List:

• AttritiCon (May 3-5, Ulm, Germany)
• KoMiCon (August 16-18, Koblenz, Germany)

UK / Ireland Gamer Convention Calendar:

• Gauntlet (July 6-7, Flintshire, UK)
• Nine Worlds GeekFest (August 9-11, London, UK)
• Fayre Times Festival (September 21-22, Billericay, Essex, UK)
• GEEK (February ?-?, Margate, Kent, UK)
• Vaticon (April ?-?, Dublin, Ireland)

Capital Region Games Conventions:

• GAD-Con (May 24-26, Baltimore, MD)
• 1d4Con (April ?-?, Winchester, VA)

Great Lakes Region Gamer Conventions:

• Protospiel (July 12-14, Ann Arbor, MI)
• Concentric Convention (March ?-?, Itasca, IL)

California Game Convention List:

• ConQuest Avalon (Nov 8-11, Sacramento, CA)

Florida Gaming Con List:

• Salty Bay Con (June 8-9, Tampa, FL)

Texas Game Cons:

• QuakeCon (August 1-4, Dallas, TX)
• WaCon (September 28-29, Waco, TX)

World Gaming Convention List:

• Upcon (April 20-21, Pretoria, South Africa)

April Game Con Calendar Updates

We've added twelve new gaming cons this month including our first from Israel!  Be sure to let us know if you encounter a gaming con that we've missed on the list.  Also, please feel free to share this list with your convention going friends!

Canada Game Convention:

• Keycon (May 17-19, Winnipeg, MB, Canada)

USA Game Conventions:
Great Lakes Region Gaming Convention List:

• Chicago Toy and Game Fair (November 23-24, Chicago, IL)

Mountain States Games Conventions:

• Salt Fest (May 10-12, Salt Lake City, UT)
• GAME Expo (June 1, Reno, NV)
• Conclave of Gamers (June 14-16, Brighton, CO)

Pacific Region Gamer Con Calendar:

• Good Game Con (March ?-?, Oakland, CA)

South Atlantic Game Convention Calendar:

• Recon (April 18-21, Orlando, FL)
• TrekTrax (April 19-21, Atlanta, GA)
• BROGFest (January 23 – 26, N. Charleston, SC)

South Central East Game Convention:

• GMX Geek Media Expo (November 1-3, Nashville, TN)

South Central West Gaming Convention:

• Texas Team Tournament (June 20-23, Austin, TX)

World (Israel) Gaming Con:

• Draconicon (August 8, Tel-aviv, Israel)

From Conception to Convention by Dice Hate Me

I've been following a series of articles call From Conception to Convention on dicehateme.com about planning and running a game convention - in their case GrandCon.  I figured I'd link out to this series:

Prelude and Part 1: How I Got Here

Part 2: The Only Ship That Won't Sail, You Say?

Part 3: Extra Life 2012

Part 4: U-con and Fanfare

Part 5: Were Going to Make this Place Your Home

They're publishing a part a month or so.  I'll update this post as they add more!