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I live 5 minutes from the proposed Gaelcon venue for this year, the first time it wasn’t going to be a pain in the ass getting to the after-con catch up session. Who knew that what’s even closer than 5 minutes away, is when the con and the after party is in your own living room, albeit virtually. This worked for me :)
Of course I didn’t play any games, I wouldn’t have time during the daytime and an online version would be too much of a stretch for me anyway. I did enjoy, somewhat, the pub quiz although I will not be rushing to change the format of my own quizzes, I just don’t think zoom quizzes deliver in terms of the quality of the interaction when there’s a large number of participants. I’m happy to sacrifice the interactions between tables in favour of offering the individual tables better quality interactions amongst themselves. Tonight the team messaging and video/audio chat was happening on Discord at the same time that the quiz questions (plus a lot of chit chat) was happening on zoom. I couldn’t enjoy any of it, it was a cacophony, so I stuck with the text box on Discord and waited for the after party to enjoy the banter and catch up...which never fails to deliver!
I would like to play more games but I am so time poor, it just doesn’t seem likely in the short term. I have several two-player games so the Scot and I can do a bit. He had been a Warhammer player a long while back, with aspirations to return to it if and when his free time becomes free again. As for me, it’s the board games I miss. We sometimes play Trans America, Metro or Battle Lines. We’ve only played Alhambra a couple of times, and I think we might have played Carcassonne once. Someone bought me Splendor a couple of years ago and I see that’s two-player, but I haven’t played it yet. I came across Chez Grunt recently, which might be worth a whirl given the Scot’s military background, he might find it funny. Everything else has been moved to the attic.
Mini-me is growing up fast, she’ll be gaming in a few years I’m sure! (She’s getting Ludo and Snakes & Ladders for Christmas to see how the concept of a board game goes down, but she’s way too young yet given she can’t actually count (I don’t know the actual term, she can rattle off numbers 1 to 10, but doesn’t understand yet that each number represents one more item getting added to the pile, or moving the piece one square for each new number. There’s terminology for all of this, of course, I don’t know the terminology but I am loving seeing all of this development in progress, it is fascinating. Maybe I’ll study some child development or some such....I must look into that.)
Anyways, I digress. I want to play some more games. I’ll try to make that happen. I also want to run another pub quiz, so I’ll add that to my list and see how I get on. A lot will depend on how well the kids do with the hour changing; I’m hoping that everything will move back an hour and I’ll get up earlier and therefore re-claim an hour in the evenings.
Of course I didn’t play any games, I wouldn’t have time during the daytime and an online version would be too much of a stretch for me anyway. I did enjoy, somewhat, the pub quiz although I will not be rushing to change the format of my own quizzes, I just don’t think zoom quizzes deliver in terms of the quality of the interaction when there’s a large number of participants. I’m happy to sacrifice the interactions between tables in favour of offering the individual tables better quality interactions amongst themselves. Tonight the team messaging and video/audio chat was happening on Discord at the same time that the quiz questions (plus a lot of chit chat) was happening on zoom. I couldn’t enjoy any of it, it was a cacophony, so I stuck with the text box on Discord and waited for the after party to enjoy the banter and catch up...which never fails to deliver!
I would like to play more games but I am so time poor, it just doesn’t seem likely in the short term. I have several two-player games so the Scot and I can do a bit. He had been a Warhammer player a long while back, with aspirations to return to it if and when his free time becomes free again. As for me, it’s the board games I miss. We sometimes play Trans America, Metro or Battle Lines. We’ve only played Alhambra a couple of times, and I think we might have played Carcassonne once. Someone bought me Splendor a couple of years ago and I see that’s two-player, but I haven’t played it yet. I came across Chez Grunt recently, which might be worth a whirl given the Scot’s military background, he might find it funny. Everything else has been moved to the attic.
Mini-me is growing up fast, she’ll be gaming in a few years I’m sure! (She’s getting Ludo and Snakes & Ladders for Christmas to see how the concept of a board game goes down, but she’s way too young yet given she can’t actually count (I don’t know the actual term, she can rattle off numbers 1 to 10, but doesn’t understand yet that each number represents one more item getting added to the pile, or moving the piece one square for each new number. There’s terminology for all of this, of course, I don’t know the terminology but I am loving seeing all of this development in progress, it is fascinating. Maybe I’ll study some child development or some such....I must look into that.)
Anyways, I digress. I want to play some more games. I’ll try to make that happen. I also want to run another pub quiz, so I’ll add that to my list and see how I get on. A lot will depend on how well the kids do with the hour changing; I’m hoping that everything will move back an hour and I’ll get up earlier and therefore re-claim an hour in the evenings.
