Expansion 05 Finding Time to Play

Apr 7, 2020

Finding time to play: What's the process you use to get into playing time, when time is a challenge?

 

Some tips: 

 

1. Read rule books to games you haven't played in a while or brand new games. Starting rituals around learning the games you want to play will help with not only your ability to play them, but also increase the desire to. Familiarity DOES in fact breed comfort. I also suggest for this particular strategy spend SOME of the time actually reading your rule book. Boardgames are tactile things and ownership of them is intimate. When you can open YOUR box and pull out YOUR rulebook. I know videos are more convenient, but part of the goal here is get you INTO the games, NOT into any idea of playing boardgames, OR spending more screen time! So try and work on a pattern of behavior that supports this.

 

1. Set up the games when you can, if not to learn then just go through some of the components as you do number one! Read the rulebook at the pieces if you can move them around on the board and go loosely through a turn. Again , not only does this help you to learn the game, but also to get you prepared to teach, and to get you in the mind set of playing, which gets you closer.

 

1. Revisit games in your collection that you already know, and perhaps have not played in a while. Again this is an easy way to foster your desire to play games. The familiarity with a title you know will help with set up and tear down, and who knows looking at that rule book again with no pressure of a game MAY just reveal something you have been missing OR give you ideas about your next session of the game live! 

 

1. Pick up some online content for a favorite game. This can be downloading player aids to one of the new hotness titles, or some rules compendiums all the way up to more scenarios, characters, content what have you. This is something new for a game you already own, that may help be that push to get you back inside the box, which is the goal! Also this one dovetails nicely into the last point.

1. Play some solo games, if you do not have any you can find many good ones online, of course BGG and other repositories of Print and Play games are your friends here. And this one leads nicely into Buy a game with the express intent of playing it no matter if you have other players or not. So I should say acquire a game. Print and Plays are a fantastic way to REALLY get your blood pumping as you assemble the game before you play it, and then have a working game from your own hands to now sit and play. Some sites have files that are ready to go and printer friendly, so there are genre and mechanical options out there for just about everyone. 

 

Links:

PNP games at BGG

Button Shy Games

itch.io

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Intro/Interlude/Outro : 

Sparkle / by Joshua Morse

Original Song: Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia - Emerald Mist

From The Album - Castlevania: Sonata of the Damned

Project Page - http://sotd.ocremix.org - Castlevania: Sonata of the Damned

Original Composer - Yasuhiro Ichihashi