Bloodstained: A Convention Panel.

I know its a farfetched plan but it would be awesome if there was choclate candles,it would be a perfect giveaway prize treat,and as for prizes I'm sure gift cards work just as well,or grab bags with some art,candy and shirts

That's quite a cool idea, IMO

Not sure what help I could be but seeing as I am in Indiana, count me in I guess.

Well I spent a few years as a roadie to a local band, so I guess you could count me as part of the setup/tear down crew.

Jim, that sounds good because I for one am not the best with cables and A/V stuff. I can do simple/obvious things, but I don't have experience with projectors, sound/mics and all that. It's pretty common for there to be technical difficulties with those types of things at panels/presentations, so your help would be appreciated I think haha. My vision is also not great, so that doesn't help with figuring things out on the fly.

But yeah dimlitcandle , as I said earlier, I wouldn't have a problem getting there...would maybe just need help with airport > hotel and back.

Short of a Bloodstained con/event/party, any place where a few of us can get something together to present would be really cool.

Yeah, I scoped out some things a while back...and turns out MAGfest is at the start of January next year, so there's no overlap with that! Should be a clear March for me so long as I don't go to the March tournament in Georgia...

But yeah, I travel around the country anyway for fighting games, so it's not a big deal. Looks like you guys even have some events there, hopefully they run things besides Blazblue and Persona next time though lol. I don't really play those anymore. They need to get on that Guilty Gear!

Anyway, I'll be thinking about what we can do/talk about/have as prizes. I kind of want to give out a couple of copies of the game, maybe one physical/digital each. We could cram a lot of information into our slides and cover a lot of interesting Bloodstained stuff and tell people if they pay attention, they have a chance to answer a quiz question at the end to win. They could take tickets for that chance and a shot at other door prizes...

Mentioning that in the panel's description and the act of doing it would no doubt hold everyone's attention and build up some hype. I'm thinking we would also make a Facebook event page for it, so anyone near that's a Bloodstained/Castlevania fan would know to come by (we would advertise on the groups for the communities).

Some other ideas:
Topics covered by either of us depending on how much we know/are excited for that aspect of Bloodstained
Bloodstained/Castlevania trivia (for donuts or whatever else, or they could try to stump -us-)
General Q/A (we should know most things, but if we don't, could direct them to Mana, Fangamer, etc)
Ask the crowd for feedback on the game and/or what they hope to see from Bloodstained (maybe do this next-to-last, before giving out whatever "big" prize or closing we might have)

Also, we should give it a name that would attract attention of a wider audience rather than some kind of reference only we would get. If something like "Bloodstained: Castlevania Successor Panel" is possible, we should go with that, because it identifies the name of the project but also would carry much farther reach to people that are just casually familiar with Castlevania (which would be like almost everybody at an anime con).

My initial idea was Bloodstained: Panel of the Night, but we could just refer to it as that in the description lol ;p

edit: ohhh, and one more thing, we should try to record this for Youtube so it can be shown to people that couldn't make it.

Exactly where in Southwest Ohio if you don't mind my asking?  Them's mah old stompin grounds.

Downtown Evansville, Indiana is where the con will take place. It's called Evillecon. The Gothic Victorian atmosphere of the inner city (you can Google it, I'm having a tough time linking...) is what initially inspired me to want to host a panel. purifyweirdshard is my savior in helping me so much, especially with my shyness, as well.

Also, in tagging him, I was thinking of "Castlevania Revamp - A Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night Panel" for the official name. A play on words! Also everything sounds AWESOME, purify!! Great thinking.

Edit: I intended to record it to Youtube regardless for my pal bcgam3r . Also, as it seems planning is going really fast, which is good---I'll be contacting the con and asking them how to get set up within the next few weeks.

Yes, that seems a bit far. But you could try to drop in once we get everything submitted, approved, and get an official day for the panel. I'm still in the process of contacting the convention. Should be in the next week when I submit my questions.