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Con season: How To Survive a Convention

Originally written by Elly Rox and posted at Philly Geek Girl in 2014.

With summer approaching, and con season on it’s way I thought I’d share some of my tips for convention survival, this applies to massive productions like Wizard World Comic Con and indie cons alike. Heed this advice and by the end of the day you may be a little less worse for the wear.

Preparing ahead of time
Sleep is your friend, a well-rested con goer is a happy con goer. Do yourself and your companions a favor and get a decent amount of sleep the night before the con. I know you’re excited but take some melatonin or something, tired grumpy zombies are only fun when it’s a costume.
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Explore Philip K. Dick’s Psychedelic Nightmare in Californium

Californium, created by Darjeeling and Nova Productions, is a first-person downloadable game based on the complex, paranoid writings of sci-fi prophet Philip K. Dick. The game begins with you, the player, typing an eerie nursery rhyme to someone named Alice.

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12 Days of MAGFest: Ellen McLain (Portal and Portal 2)

Of all the video game bad guys I’ve faced–the Bowsers, the face-huggers, the Giygases, it’s the passive-aggressive homicidal A.I. GLaDOS from Portal and Portal 2 that still gets to me. The final scene haunted my dreams for months after I beat the first Portal. Even just hearing her make fun of me in Poker Night 2 throws off my whole game.

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12 Days of MAGFest: Ashly and Anthony Burch

Ashly Burch is a writer and collaborator with her brother Anthony Burch on ‘Hey Ash Whatcha Playin’?” or HAWP, a hilarious YouTube series that has been running for a few years now, and never fails to elicit a guffaw or chortle.

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