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Off to Connections 2012
I am leaving tomorrow to attend the Connections 2012 conference at National Defense University in Washington DC. http://connections-wargaming.com/ While there, I will be participating in a “Game Lab”...
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Connections 2012 AAR
DATE: 9 August, 2012 SUBJECT: After Action Report – Exercise CONNECTIONS 2012 FROM: Brian Train TO: Dear Readers CC: Dear Linkers 1. PURPOSE: CONNECTIONS is an annual conference on civilian and...
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Connections: Call for Panelists From the Future
Constant Readuhs will remember my mention of and attendance at the annual “Connections” interdisciplinary conference on wargaming, organized by Matt Caffrey and now having its twentieth iteration 22-25...
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Stepping out East for a bit
Tomorrow I’m heading out for Montreal, to attend the third annual Stack Academie game convention! http://pinterest.com/stackacademie/sa-le-third-may-3-5-2013/ I’m taking a pile of my unpublished and...
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Broadcasting Across a Series of Tubes: MORS 81.1 Virtual Symposium
Next week will the the 81st symposium of the Military Operations Research Society (MORS), in Alexandria, VA. Because of sequestration, cutbacks (the original venue was to be West Point) and the near...
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Stepping out even further East
I’m leaving tomorrow for London, to attend the first ever “Connections-UK” conference. This conference has the same purpose as the twenty-years-young Connections annual conference in the United States,...
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Playtesting Dios O Federacion
Spent a great afternoon and evening playtesting Dios o Federacion with the Class Wargames gang and associates: From left to right, near to far: Kateryna Onyiliogwu, James Moulding, Fabian Tompsett,...
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CONNECTIONS 2014: Main Keynote Speaker will be THOMAS SCHELLING
Not exactly as illustrated. The CONNECTIONS conference on professional wargaming will be held in Quantico, Virginia, August 4-7 2014. Here is the latest news from organizer Matt Caffrey: THE Professor...
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CONNECTIONS 2014 at MCB Quantico, 4-7 August
… and I’ll be there! It’s going to be an interesting one (well, I have never been bored on one of these yet, except on the plane trips back and forth). Keynote speakers include Thomas Schelling and...
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Connections 2014 presentation: script and slides
Placeholder for the script and slides for the presentation I made at Connections 2014. Rockin’ video advertising the GlobalECCO game portal not included, sorry. ECCO script ECCO slides Also found on...
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Speaking at TableFlip, October 4-5
In a few weeks I’ll be attending TableFlip, a small (limit of only 75 attendees) gathering in San Francisco of and for game designers and the people who love their products. This is not a game...
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Spoke at TableFlip, October 4-5
City Lights Books and the Transamerica Building What a great weekend! I got into San Francisco in the morning, took the BART in from the airport and spent the midday and afternoon looking around – The...
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Link to presentation script and slides
Picture is less fuzzy than my mind was, thanks to jetlag and sleep deprivation! In case you were having trouble finding this:...
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Connections 2014 AAR
Over on Grogheads.com, I wrote an account of Connections 2014. Short, boring, copiously but fuzzily illustrated. But it was a good conference, even if I ended up staying awake for 40 hours to get...
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MORS Workshop on Professional Gaming, 28 September – 1 October
Hopefully not as illustrated. Week after next I am heading out for a few days in Fairfax, Virginia, to co-facilitate a working group at the Military Operations Research Society’s (MORS) Workshop on...
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Bored of War…
… is the in-retrospect,-not-very-good title I picked for the short talk I am giving at the national conference of the American Popular Culture Association in Seattle next week....
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Busy week ahead
I take off Saturday for a busy week of gaming and talking, and more gaming! On Monday I will be at the US Army War College at Carlisle Barracks, PA to cover another event in their Strategic Wargame...
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RB @ DSTL
(photo of Ukrainian Crisis in play, from Paxsims website) Over at the Paxsims blog, Rex Brynen tells about a recent and very busy week spent at the UK’s Defence Science and Technology Laboratory...
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News Paper Games
… is the not-quite-as-bad-as-last-year title I picked for the short talk I am giving at the national conference of the American Popular Culture Association in San Diego next week....
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