

Being PAX Rising, I thought I would get at least Tier 2 (hoped for Tier 1) Media/Influencer coverage, but that didn't happen. PAX South I would highly recommend for Indies. Overall though, I think any DreamHack event is worth it, DH Anaheim will hopefully just get bigger and bigger as more folks know about it. At PAX South, we were next to PAX Together (facing directly at it), and those folks were getting quite a bit of media attention and traffic.DreamHack Anaheim 2020 was the very first time it was held, and with it being so new, traffic was pretty low compared to the other two events.A 10x10 booth (like the ones in PAX South and DH Anaheim) give you a lot more space to work with, especially if you're in a corner location (like I was for both events).My PAX Rising pod location was also itself in a bad position, facing away from main aisles, and only 4 feet from another pod facing towards us and when things got busy, there was no room for people to hang out and wait, so they just left.

PAX Rising location was in a pretty bad position at PAX East, almost too far back from the front main entrance, too many goodies to distract people before they made their way (if they did).A lot of III/AA, AAA studios still showing off their stuff a PAX East, so it was hard to compete for attention vs PAX South, which is definitely more Indie focused.Surprisingly, we got a lot more out of PAX South than PAX East or DH Anaheim and there's probably a few good reasons for that:
