Guest of Honor: Hakan Seyalioglu
Hakan Seyalioglu is the co-designer behind the 2019 IGDN Groundbreaker Award Winner Dialect: A Game About Language and How it Dies. He is 50% of Thorny Games, an independent design studio of LARPs and RPGs that tells new and unconventional stories.
He got re-involved with board gaming when he found a mostly intact copy of HeroQuest at a garage sale. He started volunteering at U-Con in 2015. His current favorites are Bunny Kingdom, Viticulture, and Star Realms, but he's always looking for the next great game.