Alô, Alô, it’s me, Rafael, straight from the grant writing trenches. Guillaume and I have lots of exciting news to share, but we’ll save most of it for the upcoming podcast episode. 😉 In the meantime, however, I’d like to announce that we’ll be showcasing Tablecraft at the UCF Chapter of the National Academy of Inventors’ Third Annual Gala and Induction Ceremony on November 15th, which is exciting but also kinda weird.

The Gala is essentially a fancy cocktail reception and dinner where researchers and inventors discuss their latest discoveries and innovations. This is how I imagine it’ll go:

“Oh and we have a Discord channel too, you should check it out.”

Anyway, we’re super excited to get to meet all these incredibly talented scientists and researchers working to solve big problems. Even though our work is silly in comparison, I’d like to think we share similar values, so hopefully Guillaume and I will manage to blend right in without seeming too suspicious. 😉

Whaaaat, Tablecraft has been selected as one of the finalists that’ll be showcasing at the I/ITSEC conference in Orlando, Florida next month. We’ll be there as part of the Serious Games Showcase & Challenge (duh, you can’t get any more serious than Element poopin’ Blobs 😉), competing for the following awards:

• 2018 Best Serious Game Award in the Student category as judged by the SGS&C evaluators
• 2018 Students’ Choice Award as judged by middle and high school students
• The Innovation Award as judged by the SGS&C Innovation Committee
• The coveted 2018 People’s Choice Award as judged by conference attendees
• The XR Award for the best XR game as judged by the SGS&C XR Committee

We’ve also been invited to showcase at Otronicon, another conference taking place in Orlando, Florida, in January 2019, so see you there as well! Wohoo! Exciting! 🚀🚀

Edit (Dec 1st, 2018): We won Best Serious Game in the Student category! 🎉🎉