Fifteen Games in One Day!

Playing fifteen games is one thing, but getting fifteen brand new games in one day is quite another thing! We arrived home from the cottage to find Deep Sea Adventure in our mailbox. I had arranged to participate in the Cardboard Kingdom "fire sale" which I found out about via Facebook. I jumped on the small games $10 and big games $20 deal hoping to grab Roll for it Deluxe! When I emailed about the game I was told there was going to be an even better promo, they are moving to Victoria so they really needed to liquidate their inventory, so I scoured their website for another bunch of games. They found 8 of the ones I wanted so I had them put those aside until I got back yesterday (this was Sunday). When I arrived there was not a lot of stock left, but I managed to bring the number up to 14 games! Here is what I got:

Roll for It Deluxe! (the instigator of this madness)
One Night Vampire
One Night Revolution
The Secret of Cats (FATE RPG)
Pandemic: Sate of Emergency
Roll Through the Ages: The Iron Age
Flick em Up!
Riff Raff

Impulse purchases:
Cauldron
Gear & Piston
Treasure Hunter
Code of Nine
Beasty Bar
Dragon Farkle

So much games! On top of that we had a tiny game night (just tiny games) at my buddy Richard's place. Played Deep Sea Adventure (I will review that very soon), Tiny Epic Galaxies, Roll for It, and Tiny Epic Kingdoms. I think Deep Sea Adventure was the most fun (great tension) with Tiny Epic Galaxies as the runner up (I love that game). But the whole night was lots of fun.

OK so now I need to find homes for these games on my already full shelves.

Cottage At Last

It has been too long. I've not stopped playing games, just haven't had much time for blogging. The last two semesters were brutal with new courses (grad level courses demand so much more from me) and growing class sizes in the undergrad courses I teach (so much more marking). Been taking a lot of me time to recover and starting to work on my honey-do list of home renovations. But the idea I have been toying with is doing video reviews, short video reviews, and gaming conversations. Last semester I ran my first true hybrid course, online with an in person intensive. The online portion included lots of short (less than 10 minutes) videos and blog-based (private) discussions. Worked great. Also was a great chance to do some video editing. We'll see, so far I've been hesitant to start because I know how much work it will entail.

So far at the cottage (this is the second year we've rented a cottage in Quebec) we've played lots of Takenoko, Dominion with the latest expansion (one of the best BTW!), Lanterns (including playtesting an expansion for the game), and Urbania. We are going to run the Fiasco Quest for the Golden Panda at some point today, I'm pretty excited about that.