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UniCon

Location

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Focus

General roleplaying

Established

1997

Website

Archived on the Wayback Machine

A roleplaying convention in Melbourne (no longer active). A joint venture between the roleplaying clubs of Melbourne University, Monash University and Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT), amongst others.

Mission statement

Designed to compliment Melbourne's other larger gaming cons, UniCon is a smaller, more relaxed affair and the ideal forum for trying out new ideas, rerunning old favourites, and generally having a good time. The focus has been on role-playing games, but UniCon has expanded to cover other forms of popular gaming as well.

History

UniCon was originally the lovechild of Infinite Images(II)(Melbourne University roleplaying club), and Monash University Role Players (MURP), way back in 1997. It grew out of MURP's Capricon convention, and II's desire to also run a convention. In 1999, UniCon credited Euan Lindsay and Sarah Johnson as the two lead organisers.

That particular version of UniCon ran for 3 years, before MURP was unable to continue participating due to a drop in the interest level in running a convention from the general membership. UniCon then continued for a couple more years, run by II and RMIT's Science Fiction and Gaming Association (SFGA) before morphing into IntensiCon, a single day, multi-session convention and finally lying down for a little rest.

In 2004, folks from II and MURP revived the project, with help from 3WA, holding the resurrected con at University of Melbourne Arts Centre in September.

The main organisers at the last run in 2014 were Random, Adrian, and Django.

Games Run

Larps run at UniCon (1997)

Name	Country	Run by
Happily Ever After	Australia	Jo Griffith
Samhain Eve	Australia	kate and kendall
Moonlight And Vodka	Australia	Caitlin May
The Tale of CIND-R-ELA	Australia	James Haughton
The Trial of Fauntleroy	Australia	James Haughton. "A Corporate grave Production dug by The Gelfling."
1901 - An Etheric Odyssey	Australia	Django Upton
The War of the Roses	Australia	Sean Jennings

• Moonlight and Vodka previously run at Arcanacon ’92 and Maquariecon ‘95.

Larps run at UniCon III (1999)

Name	Country	Run by
An ``Anime Free-For-All!"	Australia	Luke Coughlan and Tom Wark
The Big 2K	Australia	Loki the Unsworn
BlackAdder II: Birthday	Australia	Becka Orth & Andrew MacKennan
Feast of All Sinners	Australia	by Avery and Iago (Andrew Stewart and Kristian Zirnsak)
Vlad the Impaler	Australia	Adam Raymond

Larps run at UniCon (2000)

Name	Country	Run by
Anime2k	Australia	Luke Coughlan and Nik Pavlovski
Cthulhu Does Shinjuku	Australia	Exploding Goldfish Productions (Alex Neilson, Nick Pavlovski and Peter Strong)
I Was Abducted by Aliens and All I Got Was This Stupid T-shirt.	Australia	The Evil Government Conspirators
Love-Trek	Australia	Cameron Stone
Mists and Shadows	Australia	Scott Vandervalk & Matt Eyles
Respect My Arete 3.0: Redemption	Australia	Aaron Fenwick and Ivan Nevill

Larps run at UniCon (2004)

Name	Country	Run by
The Ashen Empire	Australia	Aaron Fenwick
In the Quiet of Evening	Australia	Camarilla Australia]
The Raven of War	Australia	Fi McConachie
Stormy Waters	Australia	Louise Zanon
Veni, Vidi, Visa	Australia	Alex Loke, Ken Blakey and Kyle Lake

Stormy Waters was a sequel to "Party at the Poder Vale Pub" run at IntensiCon 2002.

Larps run at UniCon (2005)

Name	Country	Run by
The Forest	Australia	Fi McConachie
Illuminated Melbourne Uni	Australia	Laura Wilkinson
Mistress Martha Hildegard's School for Young Ladies	Australia	Louise Zanon
Pathway to Eternity	Australia	AJ

Larps run at UniCon (2006)

Name	Country	Run by
Homeward Bound	Australia	Random Jones
Muppets Family X-Mess	Australia	Stephen Soymonoff
Singles' Night	Australia	Alicia Cameron and James Wright
The Underground Movement	Australia	Liz Vinton

Unicon 2007 cancelled due to lack of venue.

External Links

• Melbourne University Roleplayers old website