Each year, the GameRT holds an evening of gaming and learning entitled ALAPlay. This year, we will be adding titles to ALA's collection of games. I wanted to share with the group the list of titles that we are looking to add to the list and welcome any suggestions from the community for other titles to consider as we have a little room on the list to add.
The games we are looking to add generally are shorter in length and higher in accessibility to allow for easy entry and sampling by those coming to the event. Many of us, myself included, love big, meaty games with teeth, but they don't work for the venue and are not the best use of funds for the game library. For those titles, we welcome people to bring them along to the event and serve as host for that game.
Here is our current list of game we plan on buying:
1x Cheaty Mages - Fast, fun microgame from Japan put out by AEG in their Big in Japan Line
1x Dixit - Going with the base game as it has storage for other decks which we can pick up.
1x Space Cadets Dice Duel - after writing up Escape, I realized that the soundtrack is not going to work well in the space and that Dice Duel captures much of the same elements without the issues of making sure the soundtrack is heard.
1x Forbidden Desert - The evolution of the refinement of Pandemic. Good Co-op.
1x Going, Going, Gone! - Scott's design for library/game groups in mind. Fast, Frantic Auctions.
2x Hanabi - SdJ winner and great deductive co-op.
2x Love Letter - The micro that blew up micros
1x Pick a Pig - Cute, fast card game.
2x Rampage - massive destructive monster mayhem
1x Smash up and each expansion - Deck Shuffling fun
1x Resistance Avalon - the components in this version make play easier to track
1x Timeline Diversity - easy to play history date game
2x One Night Werewolf - Refines werewolf into a single night for fast, large group play.
2x Loupin Louie Outstanding and very accessible children's game. #1 Kids game on BGG for quite a while.
The following is what is currently in the collection:
- 10 Days in the USA (1)
- 10 Days in Europe (1)
- 7 8 9 (1)
- Awkward Family Photos (3)
- Backseat Drawing (1)
- Backseat Drawing Junior (1)
- Blurt (1)
- Can't Stop (2)
- Cranium (1)
- Dancing Eggs (1)
- Dungeons & Dragons Roleplaying Game Starter Set (1)
- Get Bit (1)
- Giant Blokus (1)
- HamsterRolle (1)
- Ingenious (2)
- Jungle Speed (1)
- Labyrinth (1)
- Liebrary (1)
- Likewise (1)
- Loaded Questions (3)
- Loaded Questions Junior (3)
- Magic the Gathering Two-player Starter Game (1)
- Ninja Versus Ninja (1)
- Parsely (1)
- Patch Words (1)
- Pictureka! (1)
- Rummikub (1)
- Say Anything (3)
- Say Anything Family Edition (3)
- Settlers of Catan Junior (1)
- Story Cubes 1 & 2 (1 each)
- Super Circles (1)
- Swish (1)
- The Greatest Day Ever! (3)
- Tapple (1)
- Telestrations (1)
- Telestrations Party Pack (1)
- Toc Toc Woodman (1)
- Transamerica (1)
- TransEuropa (1)
- Tsuro (1)
- We Didn't Playtest This at All (1)
- We Didn't Playtest This Either (1)
- Wits & Wagers (1)
- Word on the Street (1)
- Word on the Street Junior (1)
- You've Been Sentenced (1 + 3 expansion packs)