BARG: in pictures of people
These rather serious-looking people are listening to eachother introduce themselves and describing what their ideal BARG would be.
The 20-or-so of us there were artists; social media people; people from music; people from web; people interested in communities; people interested in digital; people interested in history; people interested in telling stories; people interested in kittens. We were there because games and play relate to our thinking, our work and our leisure. We were interested in indoor games, outdoor games, board games, video games, card games, online games and offline games. We want to play games, we want to make games, we want to understand games. Some of us are just curious. (Much respect to the people who came just because they were curious.)
The first part of the evening saw the meeting of new people, the hacking of Connect 4 and, unbelievably, some people‘s first ever games of Ker-plunk! We provide an educational service.
Other people improvised in the darker corners of the function room.
Some people hunted for cake.
Some people surpassed the parcel; in the process finding out about recommended games (I heard kiss-chase being mentioned!); games planned for the future; and people who were up for playing games in the city centre.
Pete won some fluffy dice and then gave them to Duncan.
Duncan stacked the fluffy dice in, on and around Mr Turtle.
Mr Turtle played surpass the parcel and also supervised a few rounds of Ad-Lib.
The Bloggers demonstrated swarming mechanics.
Midge played with his dinosaurs.
We ate BARG cake and Lamp pork scratchings. It was all good. Mostly.