Games Schedule? + Grand Opening Event

[kuzuryu]

Hello, game mods! We now have all the games assigned to people, so I'm going to start working on a schedule for games. Are there any days that you'd prefer to post your games on, or any days you absolutely can't? I want to get an even spread of games going throughout the week. I'll get everything laid out on a Google Sheets doc and link it in the Games entry once it's done, so everything's in one place.

ALSO, our official Grand Opening is going to be on February 14th! Since it's Valentine's Day and my birthday month, I want the Grand Opening event to have an overarching theme of gifts, both giving gifts to other players and getting gifts from the TCG. Day 1's going to be the card release and grand opening deck activity, and day 2 is going to be a "Give X number of choice cards to other players" kind of deal.

There'll be a week of Grand Opening event posts, but all grand opening activities will last until the end of the month. If you have any ideas/anything you'd like to run, I would appreciate the input! Otherwise, I realize this is kind of last-minute so I'm prepared to run as much as possible.

Grand Opening Event Schedule
Feb. 14 (Sun): Card Release, Gift Giving Game - Run by kuzuryu
Feb. 15 (Mon): Grand Opening Deck Collab - Run by kuzuryu
Feb. 16 (Tue): Trading Game - Run by admiral (?)
Feb. 17 (Wed): Photoshop/Blingee Game - Run by eonflamewing (?)
Feb. 18 (Thu): Pick a Box Game - Run by falondin (?)
Feb. 19 (Fri): Draw a Character Game - Run by kuzuryu
Feb. 20 (Sat): Story Game - Run by cutetrash
Feb. 24 (Wed): AKITO'S BIRTHDAY, PRESENTS FOR ALL!

Schedule can be changed around, and if you don't want to run something let me know! This is all tentative except for the first two days.

Comments

[admiral]

Schedule-wise I'm okay with any day of the week, so you can fit my stuff in whenever. I would prefer my weekly and bi-weekly games be on the same day of the week just to help me remember to post the bi-weekly one, haha, but I'm flexible.

hmmm for events...maybe a game that encourages trading? like we give a series of words (types of candy because of valentine's day? just general gaming words?) and players have to trade cards to spell out the word. prizes change depending on the length of the word(s) they spell, and if they spell all the words they can get a special "grand" prize?

also how about a general freebie-type game where there's x number of mystery gifts with something different in each box and the players pick one.

[kuzuryu]

i can probably make that work! B)b

both of those sound great too, and would work pretty nicely with the valentine's theme! encouraging trades is good too, since then we'll get people filling out their EXP bars too.

[admiral]

okay, sounds good! Tuesday works for me. I think I'll do 3 words of the same length (like...GIFTS and HEART and something...) and if people complete all 3 they can get a bonus prize. :|a

[eonflamewing]

I could run a photoshop event, I've always liked to run one. Like photoshop moustaches onto your character and receive x number of cards, that kind of thing.

[kuzuryu]

THAT SOUNDS LIKE A BLAST, i vaguely remember a game at photographs where you'd use blingee to bling out a picture of a character and it was always like the best game (blingee's good for people who don't have photoshop too). i was thinking of doing something similar with having people draw a character and getting a choice card from that character's decks, but i think they're different enough that we could do them both!

[eonflamewing]

I'm okay with the day that it's on, too.

[falondin]

the best days for me to post games would be wednesday or friday. or on the weekend that totally slipped my mind as an option.

seconding a mystery gift game for the opening event!

[kuzuryu]

WEDNESDAYS AND WEEKENDS ARE PERFECT, since i have meetings on wednesdays and d&d/larp on weekends, so those are like the two times i can't post. SO I'M SUPER GLAD SOMEONE CAN TAKE THEM.

yeah, i really like that idea! we could make them like, boxes of chocolates so that it fits the valentine's theme.

[falondin]

awesome! i don't have class wednesdays and nothing much weekends so i'm glad that works out well.

i think the chocolate box idea is really cute! i can totally run that.

[theon]

any days of the week work for me!

all of the game ideas sound really fun! i wish i could give more input but i'm half asleep right now and just checking everything before i crash for the next twelve hours /o\

also can i get an invite to the mod comm please haha

[kuzuryu]

alright! if you can think of anything, let me know! i can move two of mine into one day feasibly, so there's room for another game.

it says i sent one to you 3 days ago, but i tried to resend it. it didn't give me confirmation one way or another, so if you don't get another invite check back in your inbox!

[theon]

huh, i never got an invite (either 3 days ago or a resent one) so i guess dreamwidth's just being a pain? dreamwidth wyd

[kuzuryu]

WEIRD, DW... i switched membership to moderated instead of invite-only, so you should be able to join now hopefully!

[theon]

requested to join! sorry for the extra trouble. >.>

[cutetrash]

oh god i seriously suck at drawing oh my god rest in pieces me

anyways I'm free whenever. I should have responded to this earlier but in my head I was like "I'm free whenever so it doesn't matter", but also you're not a mind reader so. womp.

as for games ummm... what about some kind of story game? I like those, though I don't know if other people do as much laughs. You know, the kind where you start with a sentence and then the next person writes the next sentence?

[kuzuryu]

GANBATTE FRIEND, GANBATTE.

A STORY GAME SOUNDS FUN, it sounds like the kind of silly, lighthearted game that works for a prejoin event! i'll throw it up on the schedule. would you like to run it?

[cutetrash]

so long as you will accept bad stick figures or like... really bad attempts at Actually Drawing I guess... cries....

I love story games because they can get really crazy and weird really fast, and it's the sort of creativity that I really love. And sure! Why not. I've never ran one before (actually I've never ran any games before woops) but it shouldn't be too complicated. I dunno how many cards I should give out per line though. 2?

edit: oh and... would I be able to play in it as well?

[kuzuryu]

OF COURSE as long as attempts are made, prizes will be given!

two cards per play sounds good! and of course limit the number of plays so there's not someone raking in a million cards from one game if they're super ambitious. i find that 5 plays max is pretty reasonable, and requiring people to wait until two others have commented before commenting again helps ensure that one person isn't just knocking out all their comments at once. ALSO MORE SHENANIGANS IF YOU HAVE TO WAIT A LITTLE BIT BETWEEN COMMENTS, A LOT CAN HAPPEN IN TWO SENTENCES.

and sure! it's not a knowledge-based game or anything, so it's fine if you play too.

[cutetrash]

SHENANIGANS IS THE WHOLE POINT OF THIS. but yeah i'll prolly cap it at 5. though i'm not sure how far the story will get idk how many people are going to be doing this.... (though i guess people have been fairly active already so probably several??)

yesssssss, I'm glad cause I want to play.

[cutetrash]

OKAY THIS IS GOING TO SOUND DUMB, BUT... I JUST POSTED MY GAME AND I REALIZED. I have no idea how to pay people. I've seen games run before obviously but I don't actually know how to pay...... ..;;

[kuzuryu]

NO WORRIES, i forgot to post the links to the randomizers! when you run games, there are specific game randomizers with the prizes already all worked out. for games we don't have premade randomizers for, i have generic randomizers. they don't have output text included though, so they're best for smaller prizes (1-3). there's also a currency randomizer!

i tend to stick to giving out regular cards for the most part, and just throwing special cards in with larger prize outputs. i tried giving them out randomly, but it was a lot more effort and dice rolling than was worth it.

[cutetrash]

alright, thank you! I knew the randomizers existed but I wasn't entirely sure which ones I should use... I don't mind writing the text, it's just monotonous busywork which is kind of nice for me tbh.