TULSA, Okla. — Tulsa Gaming Con has returned for its second year of celebrating Tulsa’s gaming community.
“This is our second year and this is a Tulsa-owned, Tulsa-ran convention, homegrown,” shared Uriah Davis, the Marketing and PR Lead for Tulsa Gaming Con. “Here we’re just trying to celebrate tabletop, no gimmicks, no fouls. We just want people to come and play games from children all the way to adults, one to 100. This is the place you want to come to to learn about new games, maybe sit down and play, network, socialize. That’s the whole point, getting us back together and showing the beauty of Tulsa weird.”
Davis said the event was created by and for Tulsans who love gaming and were craving unique events to attend.
“For people who do know kind of the scene itself, we have seen a lot of corporate cons pop up through Tulsa. They’ll bring some guests, they’ll bring some vendors and then they leave. Then we may not see them again because we didn’t make their quota. Tulsa is known for doing a whole bunch of fun, unique things and I felt, and the team that we put together for this, we felt that this could be something we could really step into and be like no, we’ve made these communities. I have people that have tables over here that you’ll see when you come here that are amazing. That’s Tulsa built. That’s not them ordering something online. It’s them putting blood, sweat and tears. I want to support that and I want to support people wanting to be social again.”
Davis said the convention has tables catering to people of all experience levels from beginner to expert and everything in between.
“The reason to come is we have 180 hours worth of programming, games just ready to go, ready to play. We have a gaming library that’s 180 games deep, so anything you’re interested in, we have here. We have vendors that cover all spectrums. We have 3D printers, we have leather workers, we have pottery. We want to cover the gauntlet of cool things that can happen. I would say 85% of our vendors are based out of Oklahoma, so you are supporting Oklahomans when you come to this convention. We just want to encourage that. There’s a lot of people that talk about ‘Oklahoma doesn’t do cool stuff.’ Well, we’ll just make it ourselves.”
Davis highlighted two special events the convention will be hosting this weekend.
“Saturday at 7:00 p.m. if you’re here or you can just come for the special event, we have armored combat. We call it Fight Knight with a K! We’re going to have a whole bunch of people in plate, steel and everything tearing each other up for about two hours…If you’re not interested in the tabletop but you want to see that, that’s something you can definitely do. It’s only $20 entry on that. That’s Saturday at 7:00 p.m. and then we also are doing a live action roleplay here with a group called Wraithvale from 9 to 2 Saturday. That’s, if you have admission, you can just go in there. It’s about an hour session. It’s amazing. It’s a great way to dip your toe if you haven’t been in this world before.”
Tulsa Gaming Con will remain open until 10:00 p.m. on Friday. On Saturday, the convention will be open from 10:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. and then will be open from 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. on Sunday.
To learn more, you can visit the event’s Facebook page here.