Thanksgiving Weekend Recap
Filed under: Community Games , Games , Xbox 360 , XNA
So the American Thanksgiving weekend has come and past. It was an enjoyable time where thirteen people consumed too much food, had too much merriment and are now well positioned, after some rest, to dive deep into the Holiday season.
Of course, for a group consisting of many video game enthusiasts, consoles played an active role entertaining the crowd. When the boys separated from the girls, gaming included Aegis Wing and the investigation of Community Games such as Blow, Bloc and Colosseum (all of which I highly recommend). Unfortunately, Paulo’s motion sickness kept games like Gears of War 2 out of the equation. When the boys mixed with the girls gaming included Lips, Scene It! Box Office Smash, and a non-video game called Banagrams.
One of the weekend highlights was the mid-Friday visit to downtown Palo Alto’s audio-visual store. While the store was fairly busy, no one was playing the Rock Band setup. We fixed that. My pre-school daughter wailed on drums, Paulo tore through guitar and I screeched out vocals. We attracted a crowd, gained an additional participant and eventually even store employees swapped in to entertain the crowd.
Oh, and I finally understand why people want a browser on their consoles. There was a desire to social-browse, particularly through YouTube. Laptop screens and iPod Touchs are not ideal for group settings and sat in sharp contrast to the ease of watching The Guild through the 360.
I want to thank Dan, linda, Paulo, Gill, Pete, Todd and the Corbett crew for coming by. Without you it would have been just an ordinary, albeit turkey-saturated, long weekend.
Thanks man! We appreciate your kind words.
... so said 'Sebastian' on 11/30/2008 @ 11:48:01 PM [Direct Link]
No problem Sebastian. I've played Colosseum with 7 or 8 people and they quite enjoyed themselves.
Looks like URLs aren't showing up on the commenter's name. So I'll post it up here ... for those interested in learning more about Shortfuse games, the makers of Colosseum, this is their link: http://www.shortfuse.se/
... so said 'Joseph Molnar' on 12/01/2008 @ 12:06:07 AM [Direct Link]
If it wasn't for those pesky girls...
Cootie shots!
... so said 'Dan Nieuwland' on 12/01/2008 @ 06:41:12 AM [Direct Link]