The one-day Connections Online Showcase will be held on 19 October 2022

October 19th will be a one-day, all-day Connections Online project showcase for professional/practitioner game design.  Each presentation will run 90-120 minutes and focus on a single use case of a game designed or adapted to professional military/natsec usage, including deep dives into the objectives/purposes, designs, mechanics, execution, and lessons learned from both the prep and conduct of the games.

Details This event is currently projected to run over 12 hours, as it’ll all be single-threaded (ie, no sessions overlapping with each other) Registration opens 29 September 2022 Sessions will be broadcast through YouTube live for registered participants to interact with the presenters Sessions will be made public for viewing after the completion of the showcase and an editorial review by the staff

Confirmed Presentations Brian Train’s urban Kriegspiel for the 40th ID Urban Warfare Planners’ Course GUWS member Matt Kirchman on A Splendid Failure (Reconstruction in post-ACW US) GUWS member Andrew Olson on the Malign wargame design CGSC Student Dan Hauser on Decisive Operations and incorporating that into the curriculum there There are more presenters planned, but not yet hard-&-fast ‘confirmed’ so stay tuned!

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Connections Online 2023

• Core events planned for 18-20 April 2023
• Extended events will run 17-23 April 2023

Theme and schedule will be confirmed at a later date.

If you want to volunteer to help with Connections Online (or provide an extended event) contact us at armchairdragoonsevents – at – gmail – dot – .com

Connections Online 2021 The archive page is here. The AAR is here. The forum thread is here.

Connections Online 2022 The archive page is here. The AAR is here. The forum thread is here.

You can keep up with all of the Connections Conferences on Facebook

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Note that future Connections Online conferences will continue to point to this page, and past conferences will be archived to their own separate entries.