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Monday February 7, 2011
6pm / 7pm until 11pm
Bread and Roses Café
Sky Dragon Centre
27 King William Street
Join us for game night!
Every first Monday of the month, Hammer Games and Deep Dark Basement, with generous support from the Sky Dragon Centre, will be providing a casual, friendly atmosphere for board gaming, possibly other forms of hobby gaming, or just to hang out. We hope to see you there!
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What is Hammer Games?
Hammer Games is a gaming community and game events organizing body. Its mission is to promote hobby gaming and improve opportunities for connecting with other local gamers to organize games and events.
What is HammerCon?
HammerCon is Hammer Games' annual gaming convention, focused on actually playing the games you know and love, discovering new games and ideas about gaming, and connecting with friends new and old.
Click here to visit the webpage!
Support Hammer Games
A community is nothing without its community members. First and foremost, the best way to support Hammer Games is to play games. There are many opportunities to donate time to HammerCon as an event organizer or volunteer, but by engaging the community through arranging or participating in game events and interacting with others (on- or off-line) you are helping Hammer Games' fulfill its mission.
Talk to us
What do you want to see Hammer Games do in the future? Are you struggling to get a session organized or find people to play with? Do you have a suggestion for improvements or additions to our websites or events? Email info@hammergames.org or info@hammercon.ca and we'll see what we can do!
Spread the word
Let other local games know about Hammer Games! The more the merrier.
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Saturday February 5th, 2011
Monthly Public Game Nights!
Every first Monday of the month, Hammer Games and Deep Dark Basement, with generous support from the Sky Dragon Centre, will be providing a casual, friendly atmosphere for board gaming, possibly other forms of hobby gaming, or just to hang out.
This is a big deal for Hammer Games, because while we all love to meet online and in the smaller cliques we refer to as 'gaming groups', we haven't had a regular, physical meeting place in space-time to connect with our members. It's also an excellent venue for introducing people who are new to the hobby or new to the area. We're super grateful to the Sky Dragon Centre and Bread and Roses Café for making this possible!
The first monthly game night is set for this Monday, February 7th (sorry for the late notice!). The two subsequent session will take place on March 7th and April 4th. Hammer Games organizers will be present at 6pm and you're encouraged to come by around then if possible, to hang out, check out the available games, congeal into smaller groups, and have some food and/or drinks. Games will start at 7pm and the fun will end at 11pm.
There is no charge for these events, but we ask that you please support the café by getting a (fair trade, organic, home roasted) coffee or other beverage, or even a bite to eat while we socialize before the game. Bring a non-gamer friend!
What about the games?
If you like, feel free to bring anything you'd like to play and pitch it to the throng. Two seasoned board gamers will be present to teach and play as many of the following games as we have time for:
If you have any other suggestions, please let us know!
In the future we may set up some form of web-based pre-registration or voting for games lists such as these, but for now we'll play it casual-like and see how it goes.
Hammer Games web page
Some of you may have noticed that the Hammer Games web page is "down for maintenance". Some of you may also have noticed this has been the case for several months now. If you hadn't, well, I guess the cat is out of the bag.
In essence, the magic smoke went out of the old site, which was amateurishly built on top of a clunky web framework back in the beginning of time, or at least in 2007. If you'd plugged data into the site and want it back, don't worry, it's all still around and if you contact us we can recover it for you. However, we deemed the effort of bringing the site back up after the failure simply too large given the inherent flaws with the framework and design.
Throughout the last few months the Hammer Games webmaster has been working with Drupal Commons, a social-networking-ready content management system which provides great out-of-the-box functionality while also being very flexible. With this framework in place, you'd be able to create your own sub-sections of the site with your own content pages; communicate privately within your gaming group; collaborate on and store content for games; schedule sessions, get attendance and send out reminders; as well as all the old functionality of forum chatter, game solicitations, and so on.
You may feel free to test a working instance of this platform at http://testing.hammergames.org. We're interested in hearing your thoughts; email our webmaster with your ideas and feedback. Just remember that you need to create a new account (when we go "live", your accounts will be ported over) and that none of the data you plug into the test system will be retained (and could be destroyed at any moment).
Thanks for reading this newsletter! There are interesting times ahead for Hammer Games and we hope you will decide to be a part of it.
TTFN,
the Hammer Games people
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