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Luke Morris
Japan
Nagoya
Aichi
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Read all the information in this thread here.
It's the game's fifth anniversary and it's the Tour de France so I thought "Hey, why not?!"
Also, why not double-dip with my rather magnificent non-dice, non-luck, all-strategy cycling game Tour: Cycle Free. You know you want to.
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Luke Morris
Japan
Nagoya
Aichi
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Up in the north of Honshu. I'm further south in Nagoya but it was still freaky and lasted a few minutes.
People in Tokyo saying it's the strongest they've felt. Pictures on TV show tsunami flooding - 10 metre buildings submerged in a couple of minutes.
If you're a praying person please pray for those in northern villages. We're ok in the cities.
They felt it in Hong Kong. Even local Japanese are saying that it's the first time they've been freaked out by earthquakes.
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Luke Morris
Japan
Nagoya
Aichi
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A couple of hours in and the game world has just opened up big time...May not be playing any board games for a while.
Oh well. 
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Luke Morris
Japan
Nagoya
Aichi
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I have a game ready to go. It's called "Come-Bye" and it's a dexterity flicking game about sheep dogs and sheep herding. It's fun. My students love to play the unfinished version that I take to work, indeed they ask for it (anything to get out of study I guess). A thread on Board Game Geek a while back showed that there was interest in the geek community too.
It's ready to go.
Except that my friend, a decent artist who is doing the art for it, hasn't done the art.
Now, he's doing it for free, he's a mate, he works for the same company as me and he's got a relatively new girlfriend who he sees a few times a week... But still.
I've had to ask him a few times if he's made any advance - I'm not asking for much in fact, mostly a cover image. One office day at work when I asked he sketched up an image on the white board in marker and that took about three minutes so the fact this has taken so long is driving me crazy.
So beware all. Free art comes at a different cost.
Compare this to KABOOM! and Beth Hancock's art that was far beyond what I expected - AND I received an image every day or two....and it was free.
So the moral of the story, my dear friends and hangers-on, is this: Free art for the game is possible. It may even come quickly and be really good. BUT often, especially time-wise, you get what you pay for.
As an aside I've worked two games quite a long way while I've been waiting for Come-Bye's art! One is basically Metal Gear Acid: The Card game, and the other is an evolution on a game I play with the children at work which now has a pirate theme but is a fillertastic out-psyche game. Dunno if it's good for adults but my 16 year olds enjoy it.
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Luke Morris
Japan
Nagoya
Aichi
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Hey-ho you big hairy geeks! If you want an interesting nugget of information every day or two for absolutely FREE then add Luke Morris (a.k.a HamsterOfFury) on Twitter.
You can then boast to all your friends that you already knew that "karaoke" means empty orchestra, or that cows CAN walk downstairs, or that Orangutans CAN'T swim!
But did you know that Hippos give birth underwater?
Maybe if I get some boardgamers following me I may throw out the odd gaming tweet too....If you're lucky!
Fri Feb 25, 2011 12:35 pm
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Luke Morris
Japan
Nagoya
Aichi
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As a forum thread today suggested to us: Gaming is made so much better with music.
But the balance of games and music is important. The wrong songs make the wrong mood. Fear not, here is the Happy Happy Boardgame Blog-In failsafe guide to the best soundtracks for games.
Number One:
Britney Spears for Battlestar Galactica.
Number Two:
Megadeath for Giro Galoppo.
Number Three:
Justin Bieber for Advanced Squad Leader.
Number Four:
Hot Butter's "Popcorn" on repeat for Twilight Struggle.
Number Five:
Gospel music for Puerto Rico.
Number Six:
The theme from The Goodies for War Of The Ring.
Number Seven:
Barry White for an extended family game of Twister.
Number Eight:
Frank Sinatra for Mob Ties: The Boardgame.
Number Nine:
Johnny Cash for Snifty Snakes.
Number Ten:
The Sex Pistols for Pretty Pretty Princess.
Please tell me if you have been successful using these.
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Luke Morris
Japan
Nagoya
Aichi
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I'm an English teacher here in Japan and I teach only kids. They range in age from 2 to 16 (of course split into different age and ability groups!) I teach one week a month in four different classrooms with different kids each day. I'm the only adult on site. I estimate that I teach over 250 kids each month....So sometimes I spend time playing games with them.
Part of the good thing about them being Japanese with poor English (and my poor Japanese) is that I don't understand half of the stuff they're saying. This is good because they COULD be saying some of the following......
NUMBER ONE:
"Awwww, these camels aren't candy at all!"
NUMBER TWO:
"How many of these cubes have I got up my nose?"
NUMBER THREE:
"Har har, I folded all the green chameleon cards so I know when they're coming!"
NUMBER FOUR:
"Teacher, you got any more of those Pitchcar cars? I just flicked all of them at that homeless guy across the street."
NUMBER FIVE:
"All his sick will wash off the board right?"
NUMBER SIX:
"I swapped those plastic coins for TEN conkers!"
NUMBER SEVEN:
"QUICK! Wipe up his spilt drink with that old rules sheet!"
NUMBER EIGHT:
"That box made a perfect place to tip and mix all our crisps!"
NUMBER NINE:
"My pet beetle died so I buried it in one of those Diamant crates."
NUMBER TEN:
"I told my dad that we spent half an hour playing games with you instead of learning!"
Ahhh ignorance is bliss.
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Luke Morris
Japan
Nagoya
Aichi
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Hands up if you remember the Happy Happy Boardgame Love-In podcasts?! Ooooh three hands! I'm more popular than I thought!
Yeah, so I can get out a podcast from time to time but I find it hard to get the time and the content to produce a weekly or monthly podcast. I don't have the money to get new games all the time and being out in Japan Being in Japan, I'm not exactly at the epicentre of gaming (unless said gaming involves "cute" cartoon cards with gratuitous panty shots and heaving naked bosoms)....Sadly I don't really go for any of those games so I must remain on the fringes.
So instead you will probably get some little blog entries, top fives or tens, rants, mini reviews, thoughts and general excellence through here.
I hope you enjoy what you read and remember, don't take it too seriously.
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