JiffyCon Game Day: Apr 28, 2012, Northampton, MA

JiffyCon Game Day

When: Saturday April 28, 2012, 10am-6:30pm
Where: Modern Myths Comics and Games, 34 Bridge St, Northampton, MA (in the upstairs event space) How much: Free!

JiffyCon is a one day role-playing convention. Focusing on small-press, independently published role games, we also have board games and games for kids (6 and up). We're looking for GMs and people who would like to run a game in the morning or afternoon session. Come meet friendly folks.

Schedule: 
10am - 10:30am Game sign up
10:30 - 1:30 Game Session
1:30 - 2:30 Break for Lunch
2:30 - 6:30 Game Session 2

Games run at past JiffyCons: 
Shock: Social Science Fiction
Misspent Youth - Youthful offenders rebel in an f'd up future
Psi*Run - On the run with powers you can't explain!
Tales of the Fisherman's Wife - Weird tales of Japanese ghosts and demons

 For more information about the games: 
http://jiffycon.blogspot.com/p/games.html 

For directions:
http://jiffycon.blogspot.com/p/directions.html 

 Sign up soon! Space is limited. Our maximum capacity is approximately 30.

To Register: 
Email us at jiffycon-at-gmail-dot-com

 Let us know: 
1) Your name (or names of folks coming with you)
2) Number of kids

We'll have some toys and coloring books for kids, and hope to have games appropriate for kids 6+ to play (please sign up to run one!), but we won't have child care available, unfortunately.

Live-Action Game Weekend, Feb 11-12, Northampton, MA

Live-Action Game Weekend 
Modern Myths, Northampton, MA 
February 11-12, 3-7pm (each day)

  Akiko "finds" money in the strangest of places. She "finds" a bag of pearls under the table when she sets it for lunch. She "finds" a new inkstone under the futon when she folds it to clean the floors. Akiko "finds" coins in the teapot when she prepares tea. 


 In the darkness of the clean room, lights blinked a morse-code of loss and redemption. She opened her intralink to the Cyberspace and prepared for the long night of infiltration and virtual assault.


"There's smoke on the water it's been there since June / Tree trunks uprooted beneath the high crescent moon / Feel the pulse and vibration and the rumbling force / Somebody is out there beating on a dead horse / She never said nothing there was nothing she wrote / She gone with the man in the long black coat" 

Residents of western Mass. – Interested in live-action role-playing (larp) but can't commit to a long-term game? Then the Live-Action Game Weekend is the venue for you! Three experimental one-shot larps to be run in eastern Mass. at Intercon L in March are playing in western Mass. as demos. Games are held at the upstairs Modern Myth space from 3-7 p.m. on February 11th and 12th.

 Event is free. Bring a friend!

 These games include:

Hykumonogatari Kaidankai [A Gathering of 100 Weird Tales] (a larp set in Tokugawa Era Japan where the villagers gather to tell about their encounters with local demons and ghosts.)

BloodNet (a larp adaptation of a video game about cyberpunk vampires)

Man in the Long Black Coat (a larp about an apocalypse that descends on a small town).

Enthusiasm and a desire to try something new are all that are required! We'll provide instructions, props and all else needed to play. Experienced or new rpg and larp players warmly welcomed.

 Let us know if you plan to attend, and if you have any questions please email jiffycon@gmail.com.

A JiffyCon Live event.

Not-a-JiffyCon at Modern Myths on September 17th

*apologies in advance for cross-posting*

Dear JiffyCon Adherents,

For all those of you who have been waiting in suspense about informal gaming this Saturday (September 17th), wait no longer!

We will be holding a no-frills, Not-a-JiffyCon playdate at the new attic space above Modern Myths* (http://www.modern-myths.com/) in Northampton, MA starting at 11 a.m.** (when the store opens) until whenever we are given the boot. Modern Myths thus earns the title of our sole sponsor and space provider.

* IMPORTANT: The landlord is waiting until the last minute to tell us if we are actually able to use the attic space in Modern Myths, but has guaranteed us an alternate space. Therefore, it's best that you watch for updates from us over the next few days. And when in extreme doubt, just check with the friendly folks at Modern Myths first and they'll know where we are.

**...and if the venue isn't Modern Myths, we'll try to start earlier at 9 a.m. if we can. Like I said, check for updates from us.

So, what does "no frills" mean?

Well, as opposed to the normal JiffyCons, we will not:

* be charging an entrance fee.
* formally organizing GMs into events. Sign-up sheets might happen
* pre-determining slots beforehand. We'll do that on-site, eyeballing the length of games, etc.
* providing childcare (though we wish we could!)
* providing snacks beyond rudimentary offerings from that of generous private donors (i.e. everybody who comes)
* organizing other outside fun things such as a banquet, a designer's breakfast
* having vendors present besides, of course, Modern Myths

We're talking about a space, some tables, some chairs, some great people and some great games, all for the cost of just showing up on Saturday.

The next official JiffyCon is, as stated earlier, postponed until next year, when a suitable regular venue presents itself to the organizing committee.

Thanks for your patience and we'll see those of you can make it on Saturday!

Important News about Jiffy in September

Big changes for Jiffy in September! Due to some unforeseen circumstance, we won't be able to hold the full Jiffy that we'd planned, with banquet and kid care. If you have pre-paid for the event, we will refund your registration. We were very excited to have Jiffy at the Pushkin, and hope to do so in the future!

Instead, we are holding a Little Jiffy: a free game day where we will get together, play role playing games and board games, and possibly spend time together afterwards in a spontaneous and freeform way. The site will be in Northampton, MA, and the final details are being confirmed now, and we'll post information here as soon as possible.

Please let us know if you want to come! Many of the games scheduled for JiffyCon will be run! We're excited to have fun in a scaled down way, and hope to see you there.

To let us know you're coming email:

jiffycon[at]gmail.com

JiffyCon Pre-Registration Now Live!

You may now e-mail jiffycon[at]gmail.com to secure YOUR space for JiffyCon Greenfield at the Pushkin, September 17, 2011 from 8:30 a.m. to 6 p.m.

In the e-mail, please tell us:

* Your name
* If you have any kids, and what their names/ages are
(If you told us this for JiffyCon Northampton 2011, we've got it)
* If you're a game designer and want to advertise at the con
* If you are interested in a potential post-JiffyCon banquet and if so, paying for a $20 ticket for the catering
* How you heard about us

If you tell us you're coming before September 7th, you get $2 off the $20 door price AND a free button with the JiffyCon monkey logo!

Running a game or volunteering for us? It's $5 off!

Sign up to run a game here: https://spreadsheets.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dF9PMjlUbmFDTkZ4a3JrYk1QYWszNVE6MA

Featured Games at JiffyCon Greenfield

Our line-up includes some great indie titles thus far:

Tales of the Fisherman's Wife
Misspent Youth
Swashbucklers of the 7 Skies
Battle School, an Ender's Game hack of 1001 Nights
3:16 Carnage Among the Stars

...as well as board games on loan all day.

Keep them coming! you have until September 7th to submit your game here.

Pre-registration information will be up shortly.

A New Look for Jiffy

This summer we held the JiffyCon Logo Contest. Our thanks and congratulations go out to David Berg from New York City for his wonderful Flying Monkey drawings and this JiffyCon logo, as well as creative doodles that we'll use for program materials. Also, to Epidiah Ravachol, for his Black Sabbath inspired poster, that he'll be adapting for our use to flyer the Pioneer Valley for JiffyCon in September.

Thank you so much! It's wonderful to have a new look for our 5th year of JiffyCon!