So, as I am pretty sure I only posted here once in the last year, (and in that post I vowed to try and write here more), I think it’s pretty fair to say I’m bad at this website stuff. It’s not that I don’t have things to say, I just don’t find time to say them. Hopefully, things are on the up on that front though!

Back in the far flung past of 2020 I used to do some videos on YouTube, I did pictures on Instagram and I did blogging both here and over on the Zatu Games website. Up until recently I barely posted to instagram, my YouTube channel is basically dead and like I said, I only posted here once last year so things aren’t exactly rosy. But, and I know I’ve said this before, I’m going to pick it all back up!

As I’ve not been able to play many games as we’ve not been allowed to see many people this last year and my home becoming a building site for 9 months, my shelf of shame/opportunity has grown pretty exponentially. What with the steady stream of Kickstarter projects turning up as well as the odd optimistic purchase, I have a lot of unopened games that I really should play.

I’ve always been pretty awed by some of the challenges I see people in the community taking part in. the ten by 10 challenge, where you play 10 games 10 times each over the course of the year, is always a very popular one. But, my goal is to play more than 10 games. So I’ve decided to try to play 1 new game a week on average. Now, that isn’t quite what I’m attempting, but that sounds more snappy.

The actual rules I’ve made up for what I’m attempting is that I will play either 1 brand new game to me, or a brand new expansion to a game I have played before, or play a game with other people that I’ve only played solo. Those seem pretty sensible to me and will hopefully give me a nice mix of games that I’ve never played before and games which I haven’t had a chance to experience fully due to being limited to solo play. One last rule is that each game can only be featured once. So I can’t solo a game, then play it with friends and then again with an expansion for 3 quick entries. The forms must be obeyed.

After I’m done playing a game for this challenge I will hopefully find a bit of time to talk about it here. I’m not going to be doing a full review as likely I will have only played it once. But I think some initial thoughts could be useful as well as not too tricky to jot down.

I’ve already got 2 games played so I’m slightly ahead of schedule, which is pretty unique for me. Hopefully I can keep it going but as my track record around here shows, I’m not the best at sticking to things. Happy 2022 people, hopefully we’ll be seeing a lot more of each other!