My Memestream is going to be a bit quieter than usual over the next week, since I'm going to be very busy with my own convention, SimuCon, which runs from Thursday through Sunday.

As a note of explanation: SimuCon is a semi-private party where people who play our play.net online games fly in to St. Louis from all over the world for a real-life gathering. The festivities include seminars, banquets, dances, games, costume contests and all manner of parties from the chaste to the unmentionable. ;) This is our 8th year, and (IMHO) it just keeps getting better every year. :) (Granted, I'm biased, but I *still* think it's an amazing party)

This year we're going to be expanding on something we did last year, and doing a major live webcast from the con which will include live interviews with GameMasters, as well as a sneak peek at our next big release, the graphical MMORPG Hero's Journey.

I'll also be doing an hour-long "call in" show of my own on the history of Simutronics games, and fielding any questions that someone wants to IM with. I've been involved with the company since 1989, so have a wealth of stories about the growth of the online game industry (a timeline of Simu games in particular is here: http://elonka.com/SimuTimeline.html)

My "History of Simu Games" show will be on Saturday, June 7th, from 3-4 p.m. Central, at http://www.simuradio.com. Questions during the show can be sent in via AIM "RadioFreeSimu"

Heading back to the pre-con mayhem,

Elonka :)