Megagames are hella intense. I know I’m not the only person who has gotten overwhelmed, upset, angry or otherwise emotional at a game – in fact, I’d say that pretty …
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Is February too late to do a Christmas present haul? Probably! But let’s pretend we’re still feeling festive and Christmas doesn’t feel like it was several decades ago… Sadly there …
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Game Design and Theory
5 Lessons about Megagame Councils from the Handforth Parish Council meeting
by BeckyBeckyCouncils are a staple feature of many different Megagames. From the UN at Watch The Skies, to the Small Council at Everybody Dies, to Lenin’s Party Congresses at Red Dawn, …
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At the end of November, I adapted a physical space game to online, with Gather.Town as my software of choice. I first came across Gather.Town a lot earlier during lockdown …
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This time last year I did the 2010s in photos and short summaries, so let’s have a go at doing the same thing for 2020! It’s been a hell of …
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Part one of my wedding blog series looked at the lead-up to our big day, including the pandemic, postponement and rebooking. Part two covered the first half of the day …
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In my previous blog about our wedding, I talked about the run-up to our pandemic wedding, including the massive delay from May, several weeks of shielding, local lockdowns in the …
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Ten weeks of shielding, one not-wedding day, three different venues, more changes of government regulations than I can count… but we did it. It wasn’t the big white wedding of …
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I’ve still not dared to go to an indoor escape room since my trip to TimeTrap Reading back in March. But Tim and I had just got married! Unable to …
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“Would you be interested in trying out an at-home escape room that’s Cold War themed?” said the email as it slid into my inbox. I couldn’t respond fast enough to …