Office games

[dr_tectonic]

We are currently watching Alias DVDs, which Kate lent us. It's pretty cool. I think I like it. They do a good job with the spy genre, and I think much of it is that they know what skip over and not show.

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I went to a holiday party for work this evening hosted by our lab director. The food was very, very good (his wife used to be a chef), and there was, y'know, the usual cow-orker chatting. I need to remember that I'm actually an extrovert and interacting with new people can really get my brain running.

Anyway, it's always good form to show up for extra-curricular work events, but this was special bonus, because I discovered something really cool. Our lab director (my boss's boss, basically) loves games! He owns a copy of the Sid Meyer's Civilization board game. He suggested maybe we should have a departmental games night. He designs his own games, even!

So we're going to try and include him in our demo/playtest later this week.

That's really cool.

Comments

[saintpookie.livejournal.com]

Ooooo

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Ooooo <iAlias</i>....my favorite show.

[nehrlich.livejournal.com]

Alias was quite fun. The pilot episode (70 minutes, no commercials), was one of the better action movies I've seen in the past few years, as far as pacing, quality of fight scenes, cute babe, etc. Yay!

Heh. I have the original Civilization board game as well. Except that I lost the instructions at some point. And those are kind of necessary for some of the details. Well, okay, all of the details at this point, since I haven't played it in probably 15 years. But, ah, sweet memories of being a high school geek and spending whole weekends playing that.

[bryree.livejournal.com]

Playtest? Rrmm?

Oh and re: *chatting*
Are you sure you didn't mean "lowing"

{grins, ducks}

[navrins]

I liked the Alias pilot, but somehow never got into the series. Something turned me off about it, though I can't remember what.

Cool!

[(Anonymous)]

Perhaps, in a few weeks, when there's an actual mockup, you can be convinced to possibly add my new little game onto your playtest radar. 'Course, the setting might put some off, but, hey, it never hurts to ask.

I was amazed at how addictive Alias is, and I think Jennifer Garner is über awesome. I'm actually becoming quite jealous of her. Season 2's ready when you are ;)

k8

[arcticturtle.livejournal.com]

Wow. You are quite unfairly fortunate.

Well, come to think of it, my boss loves first-person-shooters over a LAN. But I don't. Oh, well.

Hey, wait a minute, if it's the board game Civilization, are you quite sure it's Sid Meyers'? Because there's a Civilization board game (from Avalon Hill, maybe?) that's totally unrelated to Sid. Is it the one where you tell someone you'll trade them ochre for hides, and then you sneak them a volcano?

[dr-tectonic.livejournal.com]

Yes, actually, it's not the classic Advanced Civ ("I'll trade you two gold and a piracy, and I can guarantee the piracy"), it's Sid Meyer's Civilization™. The board game based on the computer game (which I think is based on the original board game.)

Wacky, eh? People played it at my friend Tom's at one games gathering. I was in the other group, and we played I think three or four other games in the time it took the Civ group to not actually finish, but get to the point where it was clear who could win, and where the people who couldn't had decided who they would play kingmaker for so the game could be done.