Orccon 2012: The Art Of Gaming

As some of you might know, especially if you live in southern California, Orccon 2012 is this Presidents Day weekend. Beginning today and running until February 20, this gaming convention offers a whole lot of games for red-blooded men and women who enjoy role playing. You can even check out games at the Strategicon library! The guest of honor this year is Dirk Henn, who is responsible for such classics as the Stimmt So!, Wallenstein/Shogun, Showmanager/Atlantic Star, Granada, Tomboctou, and Alhambra. Does this mean anything to you, nerds? We certainly hope it does!

Here's tough-guy Vin Diesel talking about our favorite role-playing game, the mighty Dungeons & Dragons:

And below HuffPost Arts took photos of some games on display at this year's convention. Let us know what you think of "the art of the game" in the comments section. Also, if you have a guilty gaming pleasure, we want to know about it!

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12:06 PM on 02/18/2012

Roger Ebert posted an infamous blog that claimed that video games could never be art. Thinking on it on the second morning of OrcCon, I'd feel that if one could claim a fine wine to be a work of art, one could say the same for a well-crafted board game. The way that a wine hits the palate in layers, a good game can resonate with a player in many ways in play after play.

My fine wine game is The Princes of Florence, by Wolfgang Kramer and Richard Ulrich. In the game, players take on the roles of benefactors who sponsor the great works of artists, scientists and craftsfolk. In the first round of the tournament last night, I proudly won a tightly competitive game. In the second round I hopelessly fought the tide. Yet I enjoy this game again and again and am happy to play this game again after perhaps years.

This post doesn't even begin to scratch the surface of OrcCon 2012 but thanks for visiting, HuffPo!