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You. Yes, you! Have you ever, to the best of your knowledge, ever played Dixit with me?

At the weekend I was visiting friends. They proposed, in the evening, that we played Dixit which one of them had acquired for Christmas. We read through the rules quickly, and it didn't seem difficult. It also didn't seem in the least bit familiar.

Tokens were popped out of their pristine sheets, cards were de-cellophaned and dealt, I looked at my hand and immediately thought: I've played this before. I don't remember the game, as such, but I remember the beautiful, whimsical illustrations.

Now, I play boardgames pretty rarely these days. And it's a moderately recent game. My first thought was that perhaps [livejournal.com profile] maviscruet introduced me to it last year, but I foresightedly wrote down what games I'd played then. It wasn't on the list. Similarly with [livejournal.com profile] ebee's epic gaming party last year. (I omitted to write about her party this year, it seems, but it was sufficiently recent that I can actually use real memory to recall it.)

This is obviously not in the least important. And I doubt whether - even if it was you - you're likely to remember specifically. But it's bothering me.

In related news, does anyone have an opinion on Dixit?

I'm unsure )
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As mentioned last Friday, I was under a cold. A slightly weird one, as it happened, in that I went from the awful sore-throat-shivery-achey-feverishness of "coming down with a cold" to the tight chest and hacking cough of "getting over a cold" without ever really having the snuffly bit in the middle.

Anyway, despite feeling moderately ghastly, I headed off to a gig on Friday night.

The Men That Will Not Be Blamed For Nothing @ The Garage )

On Saturday, I braved hell and (almost listerally) hight water to get over to [livejournal.com profile] bateleur's house for a spot of role-playing. (NB. If you're one of the people playing in subsequent versions of this, it's safe to read this as it contains no details of the game.)

Call of Cthulu )

And, to tie the two nicely together, we have TMTTNBBFN performing Margate Fhtagn:

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Those of you who have seen my rapper team's Facebook updates will already know the punchline to this story: we had to pull out of the competition at the weekend.

Some bad news )

So we went to spectate, instead )

And I had a lovely Sunday lunch )
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Last weekend, I was scooped up by [livejournal.com profile] chrestomancy in his large, purry car and delivered to [livejournal.com profile] ebee's house, where there was a Tentacle party. Involving full English, cake, boardgames, more cake, more boardgames and, of course, tentacles.

Cakes )

Games )

And then it was just waiting until all members of our travelling party were done with their games (and blimey, can Arkham take a long time when there are people trying not only to defeat the Great Old Ones but unravel and combine their conflicting sets of house rules).

And hurrah! What a jolly nice day out. I should spend a day eating cake, drinking tea and wine, and playing board games more often :-)
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OK, you people know Stuff about Things. Please can you help me out?

Board game recommendations, please? )

PS [livejournal.com profile] beckyl, if you're thinking "why don't you just come in to the shop and ask me this?", then I shall probably be doing exactly that on the way home this evening :)
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I don't post about work here much. But just for once...

I work for a company that's been building a cross-mobile (and indeed cross-device, should you wish to play games on an internet-enabled telly or a high-powered toaster) platform for casual games. And our game store is now up and running:

www.antixgames.com

This is what our marketing department is calling a "soft launch", which appears to mean largely un-publicised. We support only a couple of phones[*] at the moment, and don't have a large range of games. But if you're willing to install a plug-in, you can pop along and try the games out in your (Windows) web browser.

Those of you who've heard me on the topic of work recently will instantly identify the actual bits I've actually been involved with :)

[*] Number of phones our software runs on: big. Number of phones our software runs on which have been properly tested and exhaustively verified and can be considered market quality: small.

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