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Gen Con Indy - Saturday Walkabout - 2008 Page 1 of 2   Next Page From looking at the picture features on the site, you might get the impression that most of Gen Con looks like this, with groups of costumers wandering the halls. Costumes are colorful and fun to see, but most of Gen Con looks like this, with thousands of gamers intent on succeeding in their contests, filling the largest rooms in the convention center and surrounding hotels. One of the games we hadn't seen at Gen Con was Katamari Damacy, until this broke out. A Damacy costumer suddenly found herself in the middle of a crowd that started sticking to her, just as in the video game. Meanwhile, back at the anime mini-convention, we found the weekend's largest gathering in a meeting room, reading dub lines under the direction of someone who came a long way to attend the event, Michael Sinterniklaas, dub actor, director and producer at NYAV Post, brought an anime dubbing demonstration to the gaming convention, showing how it now takes on a controlled tangle of cabling and a portable computer to handle most of the voiceover chore. It's easy to get an audience involved in a dubbing demonstration where they provide the voices, but Sinterniklaas added an extra twist. When it was time to dub a new line with a new character, he had instant "auditions" where the audience members read the line, and then the whole group decided who was best. Page 1 of 2   Next Page Gen Con Indy Main Page