Sandstorm Personas
Gamerson Family
Gladys – Grandma gift-giver
Glen – Gamer
Patty – Industry Professional
Tyler – Teen (14-20)
Tessa – Tween (9 – 14)
Clyde Norman– Closet Nerd
Marla Gamerson Norman - Mom
Bobby Norman – Boy (6-13)
Lilly Norman - Little girl (3-8)
Larry Norman – Little boy (2-5)
Nick Keller – Neighbor Kid Only Child
Gladys Gamerson
Age: 67
Gladys is the matriarch of the Gamerson family. She likes games and has a weekly Bridge game with her friends at the Senior Center. She loves dominoes, checkers and Rook. She has played a couple newer games, but her she has poor vision and has to be explained new things several times before she gets it. Learning new games can be hard for her so she usually just plays Boggle and Hearts.
Every year for Christmas, she buys a game for her children that she has never played. She likes to have games at her house so her grandchildren can play them.
Glen Gamerson
Age 42
Glen Gamerson is Gladys’s oldest son who works as an IT consultant for a auto parts manufacturing company near Chicago. He loves games in all forms. He spent a lot of time at the hobby shop as a teenager and competed in a couple Magic tournaments in collage. That’s where he met his wife Patty.
Glen loves Starwars but not as much as LOTR. He has been to GenCon for the last 6 years and is an active BGG user. His handle is glengendaryTK421.
He has a weekly gamer group that he meets with to try new board games and RPGs. He favors strategy over luck and is in to European history.
Patty Gamerson
Age 40
Patty has bounced around the games industry for several years. She got a BA in creative writing, and spent some years at WOTC as an events coordinator, and tournament organizer, and now works for Crazy Games USA as a brand manager of the Strategentlemen CCG universe.
She likes narrative in games and regularly goes with Glen to his game night. She used to be really into cosplay and loves sewing her own costumes.
Tyler Gamerson
Age 16
Tyler was really into Pokemon when he was younger, but now is more interested in sports, music and girls. He’s pretty good at math and science, but just gets okay grades. He got into poker for a while after seeing it on espn, but it was just a phase.
Over longer holiday breaks, Tyler will play Settlers or Axis and Allies with friends. He plays a lot more video games than board games (mostly 1st person shooters like Halo or Call of Duty). He wants to be a video game tester in the summer, but right now he has a part time job at the Burger Freeze
He has done some D&D, but not much more than that.
Tessa Gamerson
Age 13
Even though Tammy is a little embarrassed by her gamer parents, she still likes games. She likes fast paced card games and silly party games mostly, and is well versed in the Hasbro classics. She really likes Monopoly, much to her parents chagrin.
Since she really likes High School Musical and Hanna Montana, she enjoys singing and dancing games on the Wii. She also spends a lot of time doing Farmville on facebook and some casual games and puzzle games on her DS.
The Norman Family
Marla Gamerson Norman
Age: 35
Marla is Glen’s younger sister and daughter of Gladys. She is a wife and mother of 3 children. She is a stay at home mom, and is actively concerned about her children’s education and activity level. She signs her kids up for camps and afterschool classes and has relatively little time for herself.
When she has time for games she likes easy ones that anyone can play. She is a fan of Cranium and Apples to Apples. She played Carcassone once, and liked it, but can’t remember how to play it.
Clyde Norman
Age 41
Clyde is married to Marla. He works as a project manager at a tech company based in the Bay Area and lives in a suburb outside San Jose. He listens to NPR, and considers himself an intellectual. He likes Trivial Pursuit, Risk, and has a fancy chess set in his home office. He does the New York Times Crossword Puzzle and voted for Obama. He’s a sports fan, and enjoys blockbuster movies. Clyde is also color blind.
Bobby Norman
Age 8
Bobby is a typical boy. He likes Nerf guns, frogs, and getting into trouble. He will play lots of games and is super competitive when he does, but he has ADD so he is easily distracted.
He is into whatever the latest toy fad is, and will beg his parents incessantly to get the things he wants. He likes superheroes, pirates, baseball and spy gear.
Lilly Norman
Age 6
Lilly just started Kindergarten and is excited about learning. Her parents are happy to reinforce this excitement with whatever they can.
She likes to play Candyland, but plays by her own made up rules. She likes to pretend and play dress-up. She likes princesses, unicorns, ferries and rainbows. She also enjoys arts and crafts.
Larry Norman
Age 3
Larry is the youngest of the Norman family so he gets lots of hand-me down toys and ends up tagging along with his older siblings. He usually watches them play games, but sometimes they let him play too.
He likes balls, cars, bugs and things that light up and make noise. He wants to be fire fighter when he grows up.
Nick Keller
Age 10
Nick is the only child of the Keller family and lives next door to the Normans. He has a cell phone and an ipod touch, even though hes only 10. His parents are well off and not round much so they buy him games to entertain him. He has every video game console, and the latest and greatest gadgets as they come out. He likes games and puzzles, especially nice wood puzzle type games that he can play by himself. He also likes having reasons to invite people over.