10/4/2011 - New people, new games and lots of laughter
This was the last of the planned events for which the aim had been to raise the awareness of the fun that can be had with modern analogue games amongst non gamers. Not entirely an altruistic motive as I had also hoped to raise the visibility of
Imagination Gaming and the work we do with schools and community groups.
The audit shows that we had limited, but increasing, success and that perhaps as one of my favourite quotes goes “
No great thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit then ripen.”
Epictetus
That said last night was by far and away the most successful of the evenings with returnees from the 3rd week bringing new people, who as far as I could tell had never played anything like the games we had available.
Games played during the evening included the very popular
Bausack, and
Saboteur which the largest of the groups had an absolute riot with. Another group of returnees started with a collaborative game
Forbidden Island and then moved on to
For Sale, whilst the family that joined us with two young children played
Ligretto,
Hick Hack and
Army of Frogs. This last game has what may appear a childish name but is, as the father soon spotted, like a good Pixar movie not
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