i am quite determined to keep this blog going albeit slowly at the moment. It took a sideline in the face of getting a new job, going to see P!nk in concert and general every day life.
We have found ourselves unable at this sage to go and play as many games as we used to which also limits my access to them and thus material for this blog.
But that's not to say there's nothing happening in my little gaming world, in fact next week i'll be putting together a blog about our local winter games fest which is quite exciting. Mostly though this entry is about the few things that have hapened since i last wrote.
New Games purchased:
Gearworld Borderlands
Shadows over Camelot
Pirate Flux
Letters From Whitechapel
The resistance
and
Descent: Lair of the Wyrm
Ticket to ride: Map of Africa
Wow that's a few isn't it.
I"m not going to do reviews for them all that's already been done, some not great, some pretty good, and to be honest i haven't had the chance to play them all.
But i try to keep things in this blog about translating the world of gaming to be compatible with the wee folk (my kids not leprechauns),
We recently tried one of my previously declared variants of Ticket to Ride with my 5 year old but we learned something tat seems worth noting.
Life got hectic and we stopped playing games with the girls as often as we used to. As a result when we did pull the game out with the girls I found that they needed more guidance that they had last time we played and that my 5 year old wasn't quite up to taking that next step as she had been before we stopped playing. In short there had been backwards progression in her gaming ability due to lack of practice. It's really like a muscle, if you don't keep training it then it gets weaker.
For her birthday miss 5 got a game of her own 'Rory's Story Cubes' it's such a simple concept, roll the dice, tell a story including the elements that show up on the dice. A lot like story stones for the more Steiner minded parents out there. This is a popular game, while the stories told by miss 5 are a little limited and sometimes even jarring to listen to, the imagination is also a muscle and one we practice a lot in our lives. In the games we have played I've seen her go from making up short sentences involving the props she can see in her immediate vision to longer sentences involving people in her imagination.
It really is quite a remarkable game for it's simplicity while it is such a powerful teaching tool. Well worth buying one or all of the variants (the more versions you buy the more choice there is in the story). Or as i mentioned before look into making your own story stones.
Miss three isn't really ready for these yet, but she loves rolling the dice and i let her roll and line them up for me in whatever order she wants so i have to make my story up in that sequence which adds a little bit of a challenge for me.
So there's my latest stream of consciousness post hope someone found something interesting in it.
Have an awesome day!
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