Yap Shop Games Night

[briantm]

During last nights yap shop a number of people had a few games of globulos.




So we got to talking about a game night.


How many people would be interested in this?

What night would be good? Tuesday or Thursday? We don't want to clash with the Yap Shop Wednesday chat.


Also... it would be good to change up the games week to week.


Possible Games: (must be free... preferably browser based & low required specs)
Globulos
Quake Live
Battlefield Heroes
Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory
Chess

any others?


Most of us don't have X-box live or that sort of lark but maybe those of you who do should organize something on that too.


Please reply with suggestions.

[Richmond Clements]

Excellent suggestion!
I rarely get allow to the yap shop as I'm usually making shit up, but this'd be good.

[Emperor]

Well I'm now registered on Globulos and Quake Live. I've played Quake quite a bit in the past and am getting my eye back in. It depends on how many people are interested but we could always get a team together.

My Quake Live profile:
http://www.quakelive.com/#profile/summary/MightyEmperor

[The Doctor Alt 8]

I doult if my connection is suitable for anything other than the simplist of games.

And I am crap at games....


and I utterly refuse to play chess for personnel reasons...

But I will accept monetary bribes to be a cheerleader..

[Emperor]

Dust your pom-poms off we are having a whipround.

We can probably sort out some Draughts or Othello or something too

[briantm]

Yahoo has all the classics covered and other stuff besides

http://games.yahoo.com/board-games

[briantm]

Emp, Ive sent you a friend request on quake live... I'll give you a game one of the days... Im terrible at it, but its well fun

[Dunk!]

Original Quake?

Team Deathmatch?

Map: The Edge?

I'm there.

[Emperor]

Emp, Ive sent you a friend request on quake live... I'll give you a game one of the days... Im terrible at it, but its well fun

OK got the request - I did wonder if it was a random weirdo but as you are called MonkeySexNinja I am still unsure if I was wrong

[briantm]

Its a good name

[Dandontdare]

I'd be up for this if my feeble tech skills allow it.

and I utterly refuse to play chess for personnel reasons...

I'm intrigued by this - did you have a traumatic early chess experience doc?

I refuse to play chess because I just can't get my head round it. I know the basic mechanics of play, but I just cannot plan or strategise in the right way, I just don't knowe what I'm doing at all. Stupid game.

I'd be well up for a backgammon tournement though!

[House of Usher]

Globulos is quite funny. I like it.

[Emperor]

I'd be up for this if my feeble tech skills allow it.

All the simpler games are run through Flash and the like so should work straight out of the (virtual) box.

Quake Live requires you to install a plugin but it was all about as quick an easy as it could be and was done in minutes. We'll figure out how to get everyone in the same game while everyone is sorting it out, I'd also recommending reading the manual and doing some of the training games to get your eye in (if you've played Doom or Quake before it should all be familiar).

[Dandontdare]

I spent many happy hours on Quake 2 (I think) but the next one left me cold - seemed designed solely for multiplayer games and the linear-gameplay for one player was a bit boring.

[Richmond Clements]

I've just signed up: rexvanryn

Now to figure out how to get it to play a game...