SDHistCon Summit 2024

We would like to invite the gaming public to join us at this year’s SDHistCon Summit 2024 in San Diego, CA, taking place on November 8-11 in Point Loma at the SES Portuguese Hall. We have added a Monday to our Friday to Sunday schedule this year, so this will be four full days of gaming fun! Registration is live now, and available here for $95.

This year’s convention will again be two blocks from the San Diego harbor, a few miles from the San Diego airport, and surrounded by delicious restaurants and affordable hotels.

Those who register in advance will get access to the convention Discord server and have the exclusive ability to participate in the buildup to the convention. You will also have the ability to chat with the SDHist Crew to express your opinions and brainstorm ideas on what you would want at the convention.

This year’s convention will continue our tradition of having a compelling mix of historical game designers, publishers, influencers, prototypes, and gamers. Designers will demo games under development and publishers will show off their best and brightest new and upcoming historical games. Read more about last year’s convention here.

Some of the many notable attendees last year included (wow…all in the same place at the same time!):

Kevin Bertram

Gene Billingsley

Tory Brown

Harold Buchanan

Dan Bullock

Steve Carey

Jason Carr

Matthias Cramer

Liz Davidson

Justin Fassino

Grecia (Midnight Boardgaming)

Ananda Gupta

Candice Harris

Kai Jensen

Mark Johnson (Wargames To Go)

Nick Karp

Alex Knight

Meeple Lady

Grant Linneberg (Pushing Cardboard)

Sam London
Michael Maners

Jason Matthews

Roger Miller
Alexander Klein and Grant Kleinheinz (The Player’s Aid)

Joe Schmidt

Taylor Shuss

Mike Smart (Zilla Blitz)

Maurice Suckling

David Thompson

Dan Thurot (Space-Biff!)

Jason Walonoski

Cole Wehrle

Drew Wehrle

Natalia Wojtowicz

We are narrowing down the nominees for the SDHist Summit Award (for games published in 2023) as we speak. We intend to have finalist games available for play at this convention. Be sure to check out these games, selected for how they broaden the hobby through the ease of teaching and/or play, uniqueness of topic, or novel approach. The winner of the inaugural Summit Award in 2022 (for games published in 2021) was Red Flag Over Paris, designed by Fred Serval and published by GMT Games, followed by the 2023 winner (for games published in 2022) Votes for Women, designed by Tory Brown and published by Fort Circle Games.

We will also conduct various panels and lectures involving our celebrities in attendance, covering a variety of topics like history, media, publishing, and community development. These were a great hit last year, and we’re looking to expand them this November.

We will have great game giveaways and silent auctions. This is all in service of our mission to create a diverse and supportive gaming community dedicated to playing, discussing, designing, and promoting historically-based board games. Through this commitment, SDHist seeks to serve the existing historical board gaming community as well as grow it through the addition of new voices and perspectives.

Here again is the link for the registration: https://tabletop.events/conventions/sdhistcon-2024. If you have any questions about the event, please email SDHist board member Andrew Bucholtz at [email protected]. We hope you can join us in San Diego this November!