The Official iCon08 IRC Chat Room is live.

Last year they helped us out with a IRC chat, and they come through again this year. Formerly known Psionics-Anarlye, they have again offered us the use of an IRC chat room and it is up and running. The IRC channel is up and running, it will be available for use until the conclusion of iCon08 for general discussions, meet and greets, organizing games, and well, shooting the breeze. A big thank you goes out to them for helping us out for the second year in a row, thank you!

The info for the IRC chat room:
Connect via Java Chat:
www.otherworlders.org/chat/fum.php

Or if you have your own IRC client chat:
irc.otherworlders.org
Channel is #FUM

OtherWorlders IRC Network

More Companies throw their support to iCon08!

Companies are starting to line up and throw their support behind our little convention, many are repeat performers from last year, among them are RPTools.net, The Tangled Web.com, ViewingDale, Creative Mountain Games and RPGMapShare. We want to offer a big THANKYOU to these excellent companies and web sites, your support is very encouraging to us. For more information on these sponsors, we have added an iConvention Sponsor section to the FAQ page.

click here to view the Sponsors of iCon08

Questions about iCon

To help everyone better understand what iCon, how it works, where to find out more information, and best of all, how to involved in the games and demos, we have added an iConvention FAQ page.

click here to view the FAQ page

Our team at Fouruglymonsters.com and the FUM community has decided to run another iCon an internet gaming convention on March 29 & 30 of this coming year.

We see the future in online gaming, specifically Virtual Gaming Table applications such as Fantasy Grounds, MapTool, Battlegrounds, Kloogle.Werks, and others out there. These applications push the envelope of gaming and bring gaming to a large gaming audience already present on the web. It is also ushering a large return of those gamers who have moved on in their lives, now have a family and cannot get away for the weekly game. These 'mid-life' gamers are looking for ways to reconnect with their friends and their beloved hobby. These applications are enabling them and creating strong growth in the industry.

Along with the virtual gaming table applications, the recent growth of applications geared directly for gamers has increased. Applications such as PCGen, Dundjinni, Campaign Cartographer, Redblade, and e-Tools have ushered in a great new era of gaming, providing gamers with previously unknown power to unleash their creativity.

Already we have seen a stunning amount of support from many of the developers behind these applications and many have pledged support in the form of free products for door prizes, demonstrations of their applications, interviews with the development staff, and advertising on their web sites.

Our mission statement:
Our goal is to bring attention to the various Virtual Game Table and Gaming software products available to gamers wanting to capture the feel of live role-playing games when separated by physical boundaries.

Meet FourUglyMonsters.com

To contact us, feel free to post on our forum. I'm pleased to field any questions you might have about iConvention and how we might work together to make this convention a success. Last year's convention went extremely well, with over thirty games being ran in 4 different Virtual Tabeltop software and over fifteen demonstrations of the capabilities of the software. This year we have expanded the convention to be an entire week so more people can take part in the various demonstrations, games, roundtable discussions and other events we have planned.