On The Move: Building Your Game Room — The Ladies of Comicazi

Before we begin this month’s post, we want to thank all the people who worked hard to make LadiesCon a success. It was such a wonderful time and we were happy to see so many people visiting. For those who came to see us at our table or at our panel, thank you for taking the time to speak with us and learn about our game day. We hope you attend our October 28th game day from 12-6 at Comicazi. Everyone is encouraged to dress in costume, but not too scary please! (This is just in case children come to the game day. Thank you for your understanding in this matter.)

The conclusion to our “On the Move” post from July is all about building your new game space. We have a brand new game room that is technically still in the works. It needs a few more shelves (more on that later) and frames for artwork. Lady Diceacorn is picking up with setting up your game room.

Step 1: Layout

When you start with your game space the best way to begin is laying out the shelves and storage for your gaming supplies. This includes building new shelving or rebuilding any shelves that had to be disassembled in the move. This can take more time than you are thinking. Once you have the shelves assembled it is time for step 2.

Step 2: Figure Out Your Game Organization Plan

If you are like us, you want a game room that has things easily accessible and organized. Sit down with everyone who will be using the game room and figure out what is important to have readily available and where other books should go. This can take about a half an hour to do, but saves time in the end and allows the game room to come together without much difficulty. If your children game, get them involved. Allowing them to figure out where their games go will help make the room theirs too.

Step 3: Unpacking Your Games

Unpacking your game materials will take a lot of time. However, if you have made a plan, it can be easy to do. As you unpack, use the game organization plan to create piles of games or game books that will be shelved together. This will create several piles and take up lots of floor space, but it is a really important time saver. Once all the boxes have been opened and sorted, all that is left is to place the games on their shelves.

As you unpack, take a look at all of your games and make sure they survived the move. This is also a great time to make reorganize any games that became unorganized in the move. If you have a little disposable income, maybe consider purchasing some great organizers from Broken Token. (Meepline swears by this company. They have a Gloom Tomb!)

We unpacked the board games first and once they were on the shelves we unpacked our RPG library. This cut back on the space needed for the piles and actually allowed the creation of more space because we were getting rid of boxes.

We need more shelves in the Lady Diceacorn game room, but for now the remainder of the unshelved games and materials are confined to a fold out table and a corner of the game room. You think you may have enough shelves, but you don’t. When we get more shelving we will make sure to have extra room for new games and new game books.

By the end of two days, our game room was functional and ready to welcome gamers. Sure, there is still work to do, but it has been wonderful gaming in our game room.

Featured Game: Mysterium

The best way to explain Mysterium is that it is a cross between Clue and Dixit. You’re all mediums at a seance, trying to figure out who killed the ghost, where, and how (Clue). The ghost can only communicate through visions represented by beautifully artistic cards (Dixit). You only have a few hours to figure it out. Can you all do it in time? Or will the ghost be doomed to walk the earth forever tormented by their murderer’s escape?

Until next time, may all your hits be crits!