Games and Entertainment Meet and Greet
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allbingoLots of folks want to see more activity on Dreamwidth. While researching community activities, I came across the idea of thematic meet and greet events. That seemed like something which might work here, given a membership of several hundred people and a new theme each month. So I made one for this month's theme. It gives people a place to meet folks with similar interests, and to squee about the current theme.
Here is the basic outline. Fill in as much or as little of it as you wish, depending on your interests as they relate to the Games and Entertainment Bingo Fest.
Name: Whatever you wish to be known by.
Sex/Gender Identity: Share any descriptions you wish people to know about you, including pronouns.
Find Me At: Your other blogs, services, or venues.
What I Love About Games: Favorite mechanics, effects, traditions, pieces, tropes, etc.
What I Hate About Games: Things you wish would go away, in real life or entertainment. Die, trope, die!
Favorite Genre(s): Fantasy, pirates, space marines, strategy, wild west, romance, etc.
Favorite Type(s): Tabletop games, video games, sports, etc.
Favorite Quote(s) About Play: Put your cards on the table.
Great Fanworks Featuring Games: Fiction, music videos, filksongs, whatever. Kirk/Spock/Chess helped start fanfic!
Best Games I've Seen Onscreen: Scenes in movies, television shows, etc.
Headcanons: Which characters do you associate with what games?
Games I Love To Play Myself: Solo or group, share what you play most avidly.
Best Game I've Ever Played: In person or otherwise.
My Collection: How many games do you own? What kinds? How are they organized?
Favorite Game Day Foods: Pizza, fruit tray, soda, etc.
Favorite Blogs or Communities: Anything on Dreamwidth, or other venues, relating to the above topics.
I've Been a Gamer Since: How long have you been playing games?
Gamer, Designer, or Both: Do you play games, make games, or some combination of the two?
About My Blog: A general description of your blog metaphor, what your blog contains, common formats / media, activity level, typical rating level, featured fandom(s) or original work, etc.
What I Create: Anything you make that relates to the Games and Entertainment theme or above topics; fandoms, formats, recurring motifs, and so forth.
What I'm Looking For: Things you would like to get from this activity; readers, comments, recommendations of fandoms or fanworks, new friends, wider representation of something, etc.
Here is the basic outline. Fill in as much or as little of it as you wish, depending on your interests as they relate to the Games and Entertainment Bingo Fest.
Name: Whatever you wish to be known by.
Sex/Gender Identity: Share any descriptions you wish people to know about you, including pronouns.
Find Me At: Your other blogs, services, or venues.
What I Love About Games: Favorite mechanics, effects, traditions, pieces, tropes, etc.
What I Hate About Games: Things you wish would go away, in real life or entertainment. Die, trope, die!
Favorite Genre(s): Fantasy, pirates, space marines, strategy, wild west, romance, etc.
Favorite Type(s): Tabletop games, video games, sports, etc.
Favorite Quote(s) About Play: Put your cards on the table.
Great Fanworks Featuring Games: Fiction, music videos, filksongs, whatever. Kirk/Spock/Chess helped start fanfic!
Best Games I've Seen Onscreen: Scenes in movies, television shows, etc.
Headcanons: Which characters do you associate with what games?
Games I Love To Play Myself: Solo or group, share what you play most avidly.
Best Game I've Ever Played: In person or otherwise.
My Collection: How many games do you own? What kinds? How are they organized?
Favorite Game Day Foods: Pizza, fruit tray, soda, etc.
Favorite Blogs or Communities: Anything on Dreamwidth, or other venues, relating to the above topics.
I've Been a Gamer Since: How long have you been playing games?
Gamer, Designer, or Both: Do you play games, make games, or some combination of the two?
About My Blog: A general description of your blog metaphor, what your blog contains, common formats / media, activity level, typical rating level, featured fandom(s) or original work, etc.
What I Create: Anything you make that relates to the Games and Entertainment theme or above topics; fandoms, formats, recurring motifs, and so forth.
What I'm Looking For: Things you would like to get from this activity; readers, comments, recommendations of fandoms or fanworks, new friends, wider representation of something, etc.
Hello, world!
Date: 2024-07-01 01:10 pm (UTC)Sex/Gender: she/her
Find Me At: Dialecticdreamer on Dreamwidth
What I Love About Games: strategy games for the mental challenge, but solitaire for the ability to calm my brain. (That goes double for puzzles, but that's another category.)
What I Hate About Games: "winner takes all" and "winning is everything" in any form.
Favorite Genre(s):I don't have a favorite
Favorite Type(s): single player video games, not MMORPGs, other than that, I'm pretty flexible. Physical games have to be solo play right now, sadly. Suggestions welcome!
About My Blog: My focus is on fiction, both original and set in
What I'm Looking For: I am ten pounds of curiosity in a five pound bag; introduce me to something new and we'll probably be friends!
Re: Hello, world!
Date: 2024-07-02 05:47 am (UTC)Free Solo Print and Play
12 Best Free Single-Player Games On PC
I think you would love Wander Witch. It's a very cozy adventure with fairies and witches, generally conflict-without-violence or self-discovery or social type events. It's also great for generating stories -- you could easily use it for a month's writing. It has solo and group modes.
Check on Kickstarter because I have repeatedly seen huge bundles of solo games very cheap. You can often get dozens of games for $10-20.
Re: Hello, world!
Date: 2024-07-02 04:14 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2024-07-01 10:31 pm (UTC)Sex/Gender Identity: i'm okay with any pronouns
Find Me At: here on DW @
What I Love About Games: there's so much; with certain games it's the challenge, or the story and characters, or the art direction, or even sometimes just being able to have a chill experience where i can just shut my mind off for a bit
What I Hate About Games: live service games, gacha games, loot boxes, etc. you know, the usual bag of incredibly predatory practices that are destroying the medium. oh yeah, and let's not forget AI generated content.
Favorite Genre(s): RPGs, city builders/4X/management sims, horror, sci-fi/cyberpunk
Favorite Type(s): video games, board games
Best Games I've Seen Onscreen: honestly i loved the Silent Hill movie. also really liked Welcome to Raccoon City, even tho i wouldn't say it was a good film by any stretch of the imagination, it was a fun film. also watched the first two eps of the Fallout show (i am very slow to watch things) and thought it was such a great adaptation. the Dungeons and Dragons movie was a lot of fun too! but if we're talking about movies about games (like chess etc) then i am sadly drawing a blank :c
Games I Love To Play Myself: i have more time logged in Civ6 than any other game, tho Baldur's Gate 3 is now a close second lol
About My Blog: i mostly post fandom-related stuff (primarily fic) but i also like to do write-ups/reviews/recs for different things i play/read/watch. anything nsfw is locked with warnings provided, but i also curse casually quite often (same goes for when i stream;;;) and don't warn for that
What I Create: i'm mostly into video game fandoms and write fic for Resident Evil, Evil West, and Detroit: Become Human. i also like making fanmixes and icons and my subjects are most often video games, but i post anything graphics-related at
What I'm Looking For: i'm fairly new to DW so i'd really like to find more blogs to follow! i'm in a lot of fairly niche fandoms so i don't mind expanding my horizons there but it'd be real cool to meet more ppl who enjoy games in general c: if you yourself post about gaming or know any communities about it i'd be happy to know! (also no pressure to friend me back or anything, i'm just happy to meet new ppl/have more blogs to read c:)
Thoughts
Date: 2024-07-02 05:56 am (UTC)I loved that. :D They had me at "black dragon spitting acid."
This is my favorite though.
>> but if we're talking about movies about games (like chess etc) then i am sadly drawing a blank :c
I don't remember the name, but there's a pretty good movie about teaching ghetto kids to play chess. "No man can call you stupid if you can beat him at a game of chess."
>> i'm fairly new to DW so i'd really like to find more blogs to follow! <<
Watch
>> i'm in a lot of fairly niche fandoms so i don't mind expanding my horizons there but it'd be real cool to meet more ppl who enjoy games in general c:
Search them on the Interests page. Search gaming and you'll find several communities for that.
>> if you yourself post about gaming or know any communities about it i'd be happy to know! (also no pressure to friend me back or anything, i'm just happy to meet new ppl/have more blogs to read c:)
I don't post a ton about gaming, but I love reading game manuals and you can find some reviews of those in my Review tag.
Re: Thoughts
Date: 2024-07-05 04:43 am (UTC)and also thank you for all of the suggestions! i'm familiar with some of the communities you mentioned, but will definitely be checking out the others. going to take a peep at your review tag as well! c:
Re: Thoughts
Date: 2024-07-05 10:29 am (UTC)I think it's my all-time favorite commercial.
>> and also thank you for all of the suggestions! i'm familiar with some of the communities you mentioned, but will definitely be checking out the others. going to take a peep at your review tag as well! c:
Yay! I'm happy I could help.
Hello!
Date: 2024-07-02 08:40 am (UTC)Find Me At:
http://penultimateproductions.weebly.com/
https://ysabetwordsmith.livejournal.com/
https://archiveofourown.org/users/Ysabetwordsmith/works
What I Love About Games: I love the storytelling and the art. I'm a fan of funny dice. We have one game that actually uses 2-sided runestones instead of dice, that's fun. I adore worldbuilding. I often read roleplaying gamebooks just for those aspects. I like smallish board or card games. We're huge fans of Looney Labs.
I love BoardGameGeek for its ratings and linked videos that let you learn about a game before buying it. If I see a game in our game store that's ~$20 or less, I usually just buy it; but if it's more, I'm likely to research it first, then go back to buy it if possible.
What I Hate About Games:
I'm not a fan of abstract strategy games. I don't like games that are so complicated I'm not sure what to do. I dislike games with racist, sexist, etc. content -- I've seen one roleplaying game that literally hardwired the player's ethnicity into the game rules regarding what kind of things their character could do. 0_o I'm not keen on enormously expensive games, and a lot of contemporary ones are $50+ and may even require multiple boxes. While we're on that topic, I tend to dislike roleplaying games that require a ton of books to play well. I'll allow one book for players and one for gamemaster as reasonable. Expansions are okay but you should be able to play the game with just 1-2 books.
Favorite Genre(s):
I favor fantasy, science fiction, and nature/science. We have some get-to-know-you games like Imaginiff. We have some goofy games, like probably a dozen versions of Fluxx.
Favorite Type(s):
I like stacking-block games. I love roleplaying games. We have a bunch of card games. I'm not into video games though.
Favorite Quote(s) About Play:
"Don't be a dick."
"How much damage does a Panzerfaust do to a troll, Heinz?"
Great Fanworks Featuring Games:
"a sequence that you never learned" by annataylor
This is one of the many Kirk/Spock fanfics in which chess is a medium of relationships.
There's also my Love Is For Children series about the Avengers, which because it involves nonsexual ageplay, features numerous games. I've actually gone out and researched which games would best suit various situations.
Best Games I've Seen Onscreen:
WarGames
Jumanji
In Lucy, there's a blink-and-you-miss-it scene where a bunch of thugs are playing Mah Jongg. It is the Asian equivalent of chess in terms of cultural weight. So if you know that, it shows that they aren't actually as dumb as they seem -- a fascinating little easteregg.
Honor Among Thieves
But my favorite is this D&D car commercial.
Headcanons:
I tend to render geeks and other intellectuals as playing abstract strategy games -- chess, or a similar game for their culture/time period.
For some of my tribal characters, I found lists of comic books, TV shows, and video games that had native influences and listed each character's favorites as a way of distinguishing their personalities and interests.
Games I Love To Play Myself:
Favorites I haven't already mentioned above include Call to Adventure, Chrononauts, Dead Inside, Evolution, Planetarium, We Didn't Playtest This at All. My favorite game engine is PDQ.
I made a post about board games.
Best Game I've Ever Played:
When I was in high school, my friends wanted to play in my storyworld. So they gave me the AD&D Dungeon Master's Guide and off we went. It wasn't a great game engine for my style, but it was enough for a start. That was the most fun I've had in a game.
My Collection:
Maybe between 100-200? My partner has a bunch of board games before the stuff we picked up together. Well, if you count all the gaming handbooks it's probably a lot more. We have a lot of board games, card games, some stacking-block games, roleplaying games. I like to collect inclusive games. I've got a domino set that doesn't use numbers, it has pictures. Illusion is a card game where you line up cards based on the amount of a specific color in an abstract picture: basically a game for visual-native folks rather than text/speech folks.
Favorite Game Day Foods:
I like something a little more substantial than junk food, such as a tray of meat, cheese, fruit, and crackers. Sometimes we make game-related food. Actually one of our favorite cookbooks is The Elder Scrolls Cookbook. I don't play the game, but friends who did had the cookbook, and I fell in love with it. We actually did a whole feast out of there.
Favorite Blogs or Communities:
I have a list of gaming communities here.
I've Been a Gamer Since:
I think I started playing hide-and-seek when I was about two. Amusingly, my mother and I could both hide by imagining ourselves as plants. We could see each other, but nobody else could. It made the game ... interesting.
Gamer, Designer, or Both:
Both.
My pocket game design challenge is here.
See my descriptions of Inclusive Games from Terramagne.
"Made for Togetherness" has a description of the Dhoni Game or Atoll Game.
"Chances Old and New" has descriptions for a couple different game systems.
About My Blog:
I post almost every day, often several times a day. If you're looking for an active blog, this is a good bet; if you're easily overwhelmed, not so much. I post a lot about writing, some nature and current events, especially science news. I share my gardening and birdfeeding experiences, with photos in the warmer months. I'm an active supporter of crowdfunding and often link to other people's projects. My blog has folks from all over the QUILTBAG. I don't hesitate to post dark topics -- some of the philosophical discussions get pretty heavy.
What I Create:
I write a lot of original work and some fanwork. A majority is narrative poetry, but I do some fiction too, occasionally demifiction or meta. As you can see from the above examples, I'm prone to describing games that I see in other universes. Oh, and there's a demifiction booklet of Heraldic games from Valdemar I wrote many years ago that's still floating around.
What I'm Looking For:
I'm always interested in new friends and readers, or new things to read in favorite topics. I'd enjoy connecting with more artists or game designers.