by Armchair Dragoons PAO, 8 November 2026
Save the date!
Connections Online, the professional wargaming conference, co-sponsored by The Armchair Dragoons, will be held from 5-9 April 2027.
Core events will be held 6-8 April.
Fundamentally, games aren’t about rules and orders of battle — they are about player decisions. Those decisions take place in a context. That context is defined by a scenario designed to facilitate the need for meaningful player decisions. And that scenario, in turn, is embedded in a specific context — a world.
The further you get from the present day, the more the world must be built, as opposed to merely being documented.
In 2027, Connections Online will look at Scenario Design and Worldbuilding — requirements, mechanisms, best practices, and more.
- Event information will be released shortly after the start of 2027
- Registration is planned to open the first week of February
- Anyone interested in volunteering for the conference should fill out this short form here
Conference chair Chris Weuve says
We on the Connections Online staff are really looking forward to this year‘s conference on scenario design and worldbuilding. The subject cuts to the core of several game design issues, from player engagement to generating appropriate data for answering research questions. I expect it will be a great conference!
We will be accepting submissions for extended events – game sessions or seminars – that can be executed outside of our core event hours. You can make initial contact with the organizing committee through the form above, and formal event submissions will be opened later.
Note that submissions of any kind will not be approved for the hours of 1000-1600 on TU/WE/TH (6-8 April), during our already-scheduled core events.
Connections Online is an all-online professional conference for wargaming practitioners from the defense/NatSec, intel, NGO, and academic realms, as well as those who support and may be interested in joining them.
- Connections Online archive of past conferences is available here
- Connections Online can be followed on on a variety of social media, all available from our consolidated Linktree
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