Game Day #2 at The Humming Tree: Closing Notes
Firstly, a big thank you to everyone who attended!
We didn’t expect this big a turn out! We had almost a hundred people who show up for a board games event — in Bangalore — on a Sunday — in the afternoon.
Games List
Here are the list of games we played at the event, with some crude descriptions incase you don’t remember the names:
- Ca$h n Guns (Foam guns, bluffing about whether your gun is loaded, scrambling to grab loot)
- Citadels (card game with characters and colour-based districts, played in order of character number)
- Saboteur (Card game with dwarves mining for gold with one traitor)
- Codenames (Pictionary-esque with code words on cards. Led by spymasters of red/blue teams)
- Age of War (dice rolling game to conquer Japanese castles)
- Spaceteam (the cooperative shouting card game with a 5-minute timer)
- Takenoko (Tending to the emperor’s bamboo garden and feeding the panda)
- Pandemic (saving the world from 4 diseases)
- Jaipur (trader selling various precious goods in the market)
- Coup (bluffing card game with influence of duke, captain, contessa, etc)
- Resistance: Avalon (A few hidden traitors sabotaging missions but secretly voting ‘fail’)
- Dixit (abstract picture description guessing game)
- Love Letter (card game where you are trying to get your love letter to the princess)
- Sushi Go (Pick a card from a hand of cards, then pass it on. Kawaii art :3)
- Bang, the dice game (You shot the Sheriff, the Deputy/Vice, Outlaws and/or the Renegade)
- Machi Koro (dice rolling city building game)
- Greed (Holdings, guns, cars and henchmen. Pick a card from a hand and pass the rest on)
- Welcome to the Dungeon (push your luck game with a hero entering a dungeon full of monsters)
If you are looking to buy any of the games, and find the prices online too expensive, please fill out this form and we’ll see what we can do.
Tickets and Pricing
If we keep saying that our goal is more to build a community than it it is to build a business, then it is only fair that we be transparent with our ticketing and pricing. The Humming Tree handled all the ticketing for us — both online and offline — leaving us in charge of just running the event.
Some (legitimate) early concerns we got was around why the tickets were more expensive than last time (Rs. 500 this time vs Rs. 300 for the previous event).
The first time was just an experiment — we had no idea how we were going to run this thing, how many people would come, whether they would even have a good time. We didn’t make any money in that event, and we brought all the board games(worth ~60k). Any damages, wear and tear, loss, etc was entirely on us.
It went much better than expected, with around 80 people showing up to play, and our online tickets selling out a few days before the event.
This time around, we wanted to at least cover some of the wear and tear costs of the games and also make a margin so we can buy new games for future events, else it is just not a sustainable system — and we’d just keep losing money.
We made roughly 8k from this event (after spending ~1k for the film for the polaroid camera — yeah they are expensive!)
We’ll report back on what new games we purchase. We are currently looking for someone who is coming back from the US to bring them over, else we’d waste almost half the money on shipping. If you(or someone you know) can help with that, please get in touch.
The Thanks Yous
We are fortunate enough to have a lot of great friends and well wishers to help us out, for this event we’d like to acknowledge:
- Arundhati, Asma, Nemo and Veethika for taking the time out to help us run this. Much ❤.
- Dice n Dine Board Game cafe in Koramangala, who were generous enough to loan us a few of the games.
- And of course, you — for taking the effort to come and be a part of this.
We are Karthik, Kaushik and Mithun — stay in touch!
P.S. — We don’t have date fixed for when we’ll do this again, but it’s definitely happening.
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