Mostly Game

Finally got to play Fight Klub a couple times with Bman. We both enjoy it – it hits the target of being a light CCG with some depth. I don’t want to rehash it all here as I’ve already written a review on BGG for it – check it out.

TGIF, but we have a ton of housework to do this weekend. My parents are driving in from CA next Thursday through Tuesday, along with two aunts who are visiting them from Korea (actually, the same ones who escorted Caroline home in January), plus a family friend will be coming down for the same weekend from St. Louis. Full house, anyone?

We were hoping to squeeze in a trip to the Philbrook Museum tomorrow and maybe Watchmen on Sunday, but that’s starting to look like a long shot. We went to the Philbrook when our friend Marty was visiting last weekend and found they have a free kids program. Ryan got a little plastic box with some art supplies in it, and each month he brings it they give him another item for his box. In addition, the second Saturday of each month is a family day with free admission for everyone (we’re not members (yet?) so that’s $7.50 per adult in savings) and some sort of family oriented programming. Ryan has really taken an interest in painting with his water colors lately, and his drawing ability continues to improve. I’ve been trying to teach him to “draw what you see” sometimes instead of just making up his own (largely scribblicious) pictures, so it’s been fun.

And of course I’ve stayed up way late like a dumbarse, playing COD:WAW and now screwing around here and working on card images to upload to Artscow before the “$5.88 and free shipping” per deck coupon expires this weekend. *sigh*

Yes indeedy, Fight Klub is here. This is an interesting move by Decipher. The game is designed as a sort of filler CCG: games are supposed to last 15 minutes or so, small deck size, pseudo-fixed booster collation (three boxes should yield a complete set), one-of-each-rare deck building limit. Plus, it is grass-roots marketing with no middle-man: you can only order direct from Decipher, you must enter a referring member’s name when you enter the site, which yields the referrer (mentor) 10% commission on your purchases.

I signed up when they first announced this last year, so I am a Founding Mentor. FK went live in the last couple weeks, so I’ve been randomly assigned two players in my area, plus had a blog created over on Tumblr, which I’ve creatively called Fight Klub Lite. I wish I had more time to really dig into this, as it’s an interesting opportunity to network with gamers as well as get some rewards for doing so. As it is, I’ve ordered one box of One (the base game set) to try it out and demo with friends and the Green Country Gamers, and see where it goes from there.

If you want to check it out, head on over to www.Decipher.com — and tell them that Siddgames sent you, hehe.