However don't think that this was in any way a bad thing. On Friday scores of vendors, exhibitors, publishers and game groupies of all types descended on the convention center. Every dealer was trying to woo the game-developing public into using their tools. Since they didn't realize that I was just a lowly intern with a backstage pass to wonderland, I was just as much the object of their attentions as anyone else. Here is a partial list of the free stuff I got from the exhibitor floor.
People love a bargain, but they go completely insane for free stuff.
I've been a writer and a game enthusiast for a long time now, but my stint here with the Atriarch project is the first marriage of the two. So when I came into the Conference I was a total outsider. Instantly I was plunged into the guts of the industry. All my introductions are on film somewhere, god save my awkward ass. The press guys would follow us around for the rest of the weekend and did a great job of melting in.