Speed Gaming

Are you tired of spending exorbitant time and money tediously trying out game after game that your friends set you up with?

Sick of sitting around yawning while the game-of-the-week awkwardly tries, and fails, to convince you they’re the bee’s knees?

Wouldn’t it be great if you could just get a pile of games in one room and you could try out each one in a very short period of time?

Whether you’re looking for a life-long love or a casual pick-up, Speed Gaming at HammerCon will let you do just this!

Modeled on Speed Dating, Speed Gaming puts up to 9 games and their designers in one room. Participants break up into an equal number of groups of max 4 each. The groups rotate through each game every 15 to 20 minutes (exact number depending on the number of participating games).

During that short time span, the designer has a few minutes to teach you the basic rules of the game and then launch you into a pre-defined game situation. The situation is like a chess problem: a particularly interesting game state that can go one way or another, and shows off a particular aspect of the game.

Check back here to find out what games have been confirmed for Speed Gaming in 2011!