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Today I went to a gaming party
I went to work today but it's not that interesting to talk about.
I drove to Kirkland tonight for a party at my friend Casey's house. Casey's this guy who I met playing DDR, a few months ago, who is really awesome and cool. I don't see him very often, but we're both hardcore into gaming of all sorts (heck, he works as a programmer at a videogame company), so he invited me to his place for a board gaming party tonight. I brought Starfarers and Tigris, and went out there.
Well, I didn't know ANYONE there and it turns out I was the youngest person, everyone else being in their late 20's and early 30's, but it worked out okay. One guy (Robin?) was showing off this "new" D&D style card game he was working on. Except you know what? It turns out to basically be Warhammer Quest. He wanted to make up a "cooperative roleplaying-like card game" where you aren't playing against the other players... heh. It was so funny, as he explained "And then you go into a new room, and turn up some cards that represent the monsters, and the items, and then you get together and figure out cooperatively how you are going to defeat them..." and I'm like "DUDE, HAVE YOU PLAYED WARHAMMER QUEST?" Whee. Anyway, after seeing his game, I went to the other table and played the new Carcassonne Hunters and Gatherers game with Casey, Sara, and Art. It was way fun, I caught onto it really quick (It reminded me of Entdecker to be honest). Casey won, but I was behind him by only maybe 4 points. Art and Sara were about 50 points behind us. We kicked ass.
After that, we took a break to play DDR. Casey and I played, and Sara watched. Oh, so in addition to being a kickass cool computer programmer guy, Casey has his own DDR 7th Mix machine in his garage, with memcard slots no less. :) So I told him of my quest to play more Heavy songs, and we did. I forget which ones. Don't think I passed any new catas but I did a few 8-footers at least, some of which he even said "oh that one's kinda hard" and I said "okay!" and picked it. I played a set of doubles too. It was fun, because Sara wanted to see how doubles worked, so I did goofy stuff. At any rate, added like 10-15 songs to my memcard... then we went back inside. Games had equalized by then, but a lot of people were leaving.
It turned out we were left with 4 people (5 if you count Cara, Casey's girlfriend, who opted to sit out), so we played Tigris and Euphrates. YAY! Art had played a bunch of times and Casey had played once and Brian had never played, so I explained the rules. It was a really weird game of Tigris. I took the Brian Railing corner; Casey took the Blue Monument corner, Brian took the "easy lake crossing corner", and Art just messed around in the middle gathering treasures. The weird thing is that Art eventually won. Mostly it was my fault... I went in to smash his kingdom and he actually owned me in Green, which turned things TOTALLY around for him. Oops. At any rate, it was still a fun game and I enjoyed playing it a whole lot. After that it was like 12:30am so we all headed home.
I had a really good time! Even though it was like all strangers and stuff. Hopefully I'll get invited back for the next one. And I don't just say that because of the DDR machine. :)
I drove to Kirkland tonight for a party at my friend Casey's house. Casey's this guy who I met playing DDR, a few months ago, who is really awesome and cool. I don't see him very often, but we're both hardcore into gaming of all sorts (heck, he works as a programmer at a videogame company), so he invited me to his place for a board gaming party tonight. I brought Starfarers and Tigris, and went out there.
Well, I didn't know ANYONE there and it turns out I was the youngest person, everyone else being in their late 20's and early 30's, but it worked out okay. One guy (Robin?) was showing off this "new" D&D style card game he was working on. Except you know what? It turns out to basically be Warhammer Quest. He wanted to make up a "cooperative roleplaying-like card game" where you aren't playing against the other players... heh. It was so funny, as he explained "And then you go into a new room, and turn up some cards that represent the monsters, and the items, and then you get together and figure out cooperatively how you are going to defeat them..." and I'm like "DUDE, HAVE YOU PLAYED WARHAMMER QUEST?" Whee. Anyway, after seeing his game, I went to the other table and played the new Carcassonne Hunters and Gatherers game with Casey, Sara, and Art. It was way fun, I caught onto it really quick (It reminded me of Entdecker to be honest). Casey won, but I was behind him by only maybe 4 points. Art and Sara were about 50 points behind us. We kicked ass.
After that, we took a break to play DDR. Casey and I played, and Sara watched. Oh, so in addition to being a kickass cool computer programmer guy, Casey has his own DDR 7th Mix machine in his garage, with memcard slots no less. :) So I told him of my quest to play more Heavy songs, and we did. I forget which ones. Don't think I passed any new catas but I did a few 8-footers at least, some of which he even said "oh that one's kinda hard" and I said "okay!" and picked it. I played a set of doubles too. It was fun, because Sara wanted to see how doubles worked, so I did goofy stuff. At any rate, added like 10-15 songs to my memcard... then we went back inside. Games had equalized by then, but a lot of people were leaving.
It turned out we were left with 4 people (5 if you count Cara, Casey's girlfriend, who opted to sit out), so we played Tigris and Euphrates. YAY! Art had played a bunch of times and Casey had played once and Brian had never played, so I explained the rules. It was a really weird game of Tigris. I took the Brian Railing corner; Casey took the Blue Monument corner, Brian took the "easy lake crossing corner", and Art just messed around in the middle gathering treasures. The weird thing is that Art eventually won. Mostly it was my fault... I went in to smash his kingdom and he actually owned me in Green, which turned things TOTALLY around for him. Oops. At any rate, it was still a fun game and I enjoyed playing it a whole lot. After that it was like 12:30am so we all headed home.
I had a really good time! Even though it was like all strangers and stuff. Hopefully I'll get invited back for the next one. And I don't just say that because of the DDR machine. :)
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Have just played LotR co-operative game, Bohnanza, Vinci (got the rules very wrong), Settlers, Chinatown and a bit of Liar's Dice. Had you played the original Carc before Carc H&G? Carc H&G is probably identifiably better, but I'm not convinced it's as much fun as the original.
How much would it cost to have a DDR 7th mix machine in your garage?