[seany]

If you wander around the gencon halls this seems less true than people think. The number of innovative things or even kids ish games that are actually pretty interesting for all is _expansive_. The smaller stuff just doesn't get all the marketing splash.

I came back from last year with a few things but one of the hits was a physical area control game with just cards. The 2 play version is a pack of cards.

[2muchcoffeeman]

That’s even worse then. I’ve never bothered to go to cons. But this means that almost none of the games that deserve attention get any air time.

[seany]

In theory BGG should help here, but I agree there are discoverability issues. Not sure what a better plan would be though, the margins on some of the small games are not that great. Outside of working on distribution deals with big stores, going to cons with a booth and word of mouth ends up being the main way...