Boardgames about Mars: What do they get right and what do they get wrong? Auroch Digital's panel at The UK Games Expo

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The UK Games Expo is the largest Hobby Games Convention in the UK, which is now in it's 14th year. Because of Covid, 2020 sees the show going Virtual for the first time ever. Using a range of different technologies UK Games Expo are makig as much as possible of the traditional expo available from the comfort of your own home.

  • UK Games Expo - Virtually Expo

    • Date: Fri 21st August - Sun 23rd August 2020

    • Times: Friday 6pm BST - Midnight / Saturday 9am BST - Midnight / Sunday 9am - 4pm BST

Even better, we are running a panel discussion during the show! Our gaming panel will cover “Gaming and Mars - What do the games that use Mars as inspiration get right and what do they get wrong?” hosted by our own Tomas Rawlings with 3 incredible experts from different areas of gaming and space.

You can join this event by watching the UK Games Expo Twitch channel. You can also use your mobile device to watch via the Twitch app Click here for more information for Android devices or Apple devices

Gaming on Mars - Panel guests

Dr. Tomas Rawlings (Moderator)
CEO of Auroch Digital, Co-designer of Mars Horizon: Blast Off!

Dr. Tomas Rawlings is the CEO at Auroch Digital. As well as running the studio, he is an experienced, award winning games designer who has created games from original titles to well-loved IP such as Games Workshop, and Star Wars, and Lovecraft’s Cthulhu. He is a well known speaker and consultant on gaming who has also worked with major organisations such as the Wellcome Trust, the Royal Society, UK Parliament and the BBC.

Dr. Jacob Fryxelius
Game Designer at FryxGames, Creator & designer of Terraforming Mars

Dr. Jacob Fryxelius is one of 5 brothers of the Fryxelius family that work for FryxGames. His doctorate is in chemistry (artificial photosynthesis) and he previously spent many years teaching science. He is also a veteran gamer. Jacob is a creative game designer, mainly focused on card games, and brings his science background into the games he makes. He designed the hugely successful Terraforming Mars boardgame which has since had 5 expansions and been adapted into a videogame too.

Dr. Sian Proctor
Professor at South Mountain Community College, Geoscientist & Analog Astronaut

Dr. Sian Proctor is an American explorer, scientist, STEM communicator, and aspiring astronaut. She is a geology, sustainability and planetary science professor at South Mountain Community College.
She does a lot of exploration and education outreach, as well as television appearances and she was a finalist for the 2009 NASA Astronaut Selection Process.

Paul Smith
Robotic Exploration Programme Manager at the UK Space Agency

Paul Smith is from the UK Space Agency. His work focuses on the robotic exploration of Mars and the Moon. His areas of expertise include the Mars Rovers, Mars missions, the future of Space Travel, colonising other planets, resources in space (e.g. mining asteroids, generating water from lunar regolith etc) and more. Paul joined us on a recent stream Mars Horizon which you can check out here!

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Jemima Crow