Guests

Check out who’s going to be here at RinCon2024! These industry stars, up-and-comers, and all-around phenomenal humans will all be presenting programming of various kinds at our event.

Emily Vincent

Emily Vincent is the board game designer behind Pink Hawk Games, and a co-host on Building the Game podcast.  Her creation Knitting Circle will be on KS soon through Flatout Games, and is the second installment in the Calico game universe. Emily was a recipient of this year’s GAMA Horizons Fellowship; this has allowed her to launch her publishing company, whose mission is inclusion, collaboration, and bringing new diverse voices to the table. Pink Hawk Games will be launching its first game, Pirates of the High Teas, in Spring 2025.

Weyodi OldBear

Weyodi OldBear is a voting citizen of the Comanche Nation who has been writing on a daily basis since she was 7 years old. She is disabled in a “seizures and can’t see much out of one eye” sort of way. She writes from a Numunu (Comanche) perspective because that is her original factory setting. Themes that she’ll be bringing to RinCon include indigenous futurism, world-building with attention to the sociocultural and historical aspects that inform the process, and her experiences as a writer on Coyote & Crow, one of the most successful TTRPG Kickstarters to date.

James Ernest

RinCon welcomes back the prolific board game designer and founder of Cheapass Games and Crab Fragment Labs: James Ernest! Previously, he’s presented panels and playtests and a plethora of programming; who knows what marvels he’ll be bringing this year?

Brendan LaSalle

Brendan LaSalle [bɹɛnˈ dən lə sælˈ] (n): 1) creator of Xcrawl 2) writer on Dungeon Crawl Classics from Goodman Games 3) stalwart supporter of RinCon 4) GM extraordinaire! He will once again be bringing his special brand of chaos to our li’l shindig. Check out his game sessions, as well as the DCC for Charity: Improv Game raising money for our chosen cause!