There was only one way it could have been better: the Indie Megabooth! Man, did those guys have it great! Professional-looking booths, tons of promotion; it’s right in the middle of the expo hall. It felt unattainable. Heck, even with our success showcasing, it felt like most of the people looking for indies were looking at the Megabooth. Like somehow, if we weren’t with them, we weren’t good enough. Silly, I know. Just being at PAX at all was huge. Plus, we know tons upon tons of amazing indies who’ve never been there, and probably never will… but from an outsider looking in, that was the place to be! The only problem is, we’d applied before, and got turned down.

It’s weird, events. Yeah, we did our first event all the way back in 2009, with a couple more after that, but let’s face it; A&G Ohio wasn’t exactly the Major Leagues… or the Minor Leagues, for that matter. Okay, okay, it was barely a vacant lot to go and play stickball in. No, our first “real” event was OGDE. That was in 2015. If you read our decade recap, you may know that we were facing some pretty hard times going into 2015. It was Steve’s idea to go out to OGDE to show off what we had. It felt like such a big deal. It felt like we were taking things to a new level. We kinda were. That was five years ago. Wow. Five years! It’s really funny; Steve got a tablecloth printed, we bought a tablet (oh yes, A tablet. Singular. One. Tablet.), and we had a dinky little TV running the trailer. We didn’t even have shirts! Okay, we had shirts; we weren’t running around topless. We didn’t have branded shirts. If you’ve seen us at any convention recently, being without branded shirts means we might as well have been naked. It’s almost cute. We put out the business cards in a grid. That was just weird. Why did we do that!? We had absolutely no clue what we were doing. But it got a bug in us (no… no… bad words… not like that… no bugs over here… everyone’s healthy). What I mean is, we wanted more. More conventions. Always bettering ourselves.