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DSU to host annual Nanocon
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Dakota State University will host Nanocon, a gaming tournament convention, on Friday, Saturday and Sunday at the Dakota Prairie Playhouse.
This is the seventh year that the convention has been held at DSU. The event is free and open to the public, although a few of the actual gaming tournaments have small participation fees to cover equipment and prizes.
Gaming will run throughout the evening on Friday; from 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. on Saturday; and from noon to 8 p.m. on Sunday.
Nanocon is sponsored by the DSU Gaming Club. This year, the event includes a panel discussion with three nationally known game designers: Chris Sims, Richard Dansky and Jeff Tidball. The speakers' panel begins at 4 p.m. on Friday.
Sims is an associate editor who works in role-playing games research and development at Wizards of the Coast, Inc. He works as a game designer and developer and plays or serves as Dungeon Master for Dungeons and Dragons games several times a month.
Dansky works as a game writer for both Red Storm Entertainment and its parent company, Ubisoft. A fiction author with a flair for horror, Dansky has also contributed to more than 130 role-playing books from White Wolf. In addition to writing over a dozen games for Ubisoft, most notably the games in the Tom Clancy series for which he holds the title of Central Writer, Dansky is the co-author of an instructional book, "Game Writing: Narrative Skills for Video Games."
Tidball is an Origins Award-winning game designer, whose credits include contributions to more than 50 role-playing games, card games and board games. He worked as line developer for The Lord of the Rings role-playing game. He won both the Academy of Adventure Gaming Arts and Design's professional and gamers' choice awards for the card game Cthulhu 500, and optioned board game Cults Across America for feature development. He has contributed to prestige game lines including Ars Magica, Vampire: the Requiem and Warhammer Fantasy role-play. Tidball also writes a column on role-playing for Games Quarterly magazine.
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