Balance game festival
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This year’s celebration featured a Tardis cake as Kris is a huge Doctor Who fan. It has become a Sasquatch tradition to celebrate Kris Gould’s birthday during the event. There were a couple of new events – Jesse McGatha ran a boardgame-themed puzzle hunt, and Dan Reger organized a game of Artemis. Beeler), live-action interactive fiction (Zombie Town hosted by Chris Lemon), and the ever-popular Game Show hosted by Peter Sarrett.
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We did not do math trade or flea market this year, but continued on with the popular events of movie night (this year’s edition was Sasquatch TV – a collection of short films about boardgaming produced by the talented Mr. Overall, I think it was still a fun event, but we’ll try not to leave it to the last minute to pull together next time.Įven though this is the 3rd year, I am still trying to figure out the right balance between open gaming and special events. The negotiation part of the game took longer than expected and there were some hiccups from me being a novice in running a live-action event. Nate designed the posters for each of the locations, and I found some zombie duckies that were used as zombies. We were treated to 5 beautiful posters and had a lot of fun trying to figure out from which game the letter was taken for our name badges (Nate used games that are favorites of each person to add the personal touch).Īs the first day of the convention coincided with Halloween, we ran a live-action City of Horror game, where participants can either choose to be one of the characters from the game, or let us know their costume and we came up with special character cards for them. For the third year, Nate Beeler designed the posters and name badges for the convention. One of the nice things about having a smaller event and talented volunteers is that we can provide a lot of personal touches and special events. Other games played on Tuesday included Briefcase, Among the Stars and Saint Malo. Bumm Bumm Balloon! was the first to hit the table, and Tzol’kin: The Mayan Calendar was set up on a table where it stayed for the rest of the weekend. Thanks to the volunteers, we managed to set up the game library within a short time and started playing games. To my surprise, the hotel staff actually understood my detailed room layout drawings and already had the rooms set up. There were several changes this year – attendance grew by 50% (we had about 80 people) so we moved up from mansions to a hotel venue for the first time, and I was running the last leg of the Essen mule train, driving up from Portland with 100+ new Essen games and Kris’ birthday cake in pouring rain. The 3rd annual Sasquatch Board Game Festival took place 10/31-11/4.