Current Project: Life With The Dicebag
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   Status: Completed, Trailers available here. Stills available here.

    This documentary culminates the efforts of the last year and a half of my life. A life long gamer myself, I felt that people were often misunderstanding what gaming was all about and that the people associated with it were being unfairly labeled. Other documentaries I’d seen on the subject tended to focus more on the games themselves, rather then the people playing them. So, beginning in February of 2002 I grabbed a camera and traveled across the country talking with a variety of people in different cities and states about tabletop Role Playing Games, their views, and thoughts on the stereotypes associated with them, and what exactly it meant to be a “Gamer.” Along the way I realized that 2002 was the last year for GenCon (The largest role playing game convention in North America) to be hosted in the city of Milwaukee.

    Unwilling to let this momentous occasion pass me by, I headed out to document the last days of Gen Con before it went to Indiana, leaving Wisconsin for the first time—possibly never to return. The end result of it all is what you see here; a film that tries to show gamers just being themselves and illustrate how having a hobby doesn’t terminate your connection with humanity.

    I tried to examine all aspects of gaming, both the good and the bad and present them in an objective light, allowing the audience to come to their own conclusion about a subject I feel has already been cast in a negative light through stereotypes and misunderstanding of what really goes on in a game. If you watch this I think you might see that gaming is really just the exploration of the imagination, and so everybody games in their life; they just might not realize it.

Now available for purchase here.