About Go Play NW

Philip is a co-founder and Board member of Go Play NW, and currently leads the Organizing Committee as the liaison between the Board and Go Play NW’s day-to-day operations. He likes to claim this all got started because he joined the Talislanta RPG email list back in 1995, although really it starts even before that... it’s a long story. Philip has lived in Seattle long enough to age into adulthood a second time, but not yet as long as he lived in his native New England. Apart from Go Play NW, Philip is a passionate music fan and long-time KEXP volunteer, and a highly skilled editor.

E.T. is Go Play NW’s Volunteer Coordinator and Project Manager for Go Play NW’s Organizing Committee. Based in Seattle, E.T. also supports Big Bad Con as their Games on Demand Coordinator and general organizing helper. E.T. is passionate about increasing accessibility in convention spaces and iterating on the Indie Games on Demand model to meet the needs of different events and audiences. In their remaining time, they bake bread professionally and practice Bak Sil Lum kung fu as well as Sun and Chen style taiji at SHIFT movement studio in Fremont.

Red is totally (definitely) an Agender human and not just 4 racoons in a trenchcoat. By day, they play games of the tabletop and video varieties with their two cats Remy & Izabelle. By night Red works in Hospitals, Ambulances, and Bars all over Seattle making sure people are taken care of in any facet they might require! In their down time, Red is an avid cinephile and labor organizer, and they strive to make any space they inhabit a safe, inclusive, and welcoming environment for folx of all walks of life.

Brendan was forever changed when he first played "Don't Kill a Bird with a Baseball" at Go Play NW's online event, and he is working tirelessly to repay that debt by volunteering on the Communications Committee. Brendan will try any game twice, but the ones he keeps coming back to tend to be of the OSR or PbtA flavor. He loves rolling on random tables, picking up heavy things, and clown.

Jeremy Tidwell is a game player, game designer, software developer, photographer, and general nerd-about-town. He has written Companions, a social fiction about the feelings of time travellers, and has collaborated on several Mage 2nd Edition products for White Wolf. He is quite affable, and occasionally smells of lychee fruit!

Kona is an avid ttrpg player, GM, and designer with particular passion for rules-lite games that focus on interpersonal relationships, character arcs, and emotional turmoil; her favorite games are Royal Blood, Thirsty Sword Lesbians, and For the Queen. When she is not playing, she performs enchantments on computers. She loves the color purple, heists, and bats. If you see her, offer to run a game of Royal Blood for her!

Travis a nerd of wide interests. His day job involves kicking websites until he figures out where they're broken, making him a critical member of Go Play NW's Tech Committee, although sometimes we wonder if the things he finds were really broken in the first place or if it was the kicking that did them in. He's based somewhere between Seattle and the Canadian border and wants to assure you that he's definitely not an automaton.