Announce-gamesoc October 2011

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[Announce-gamesoc] Week 6: EGM Results, Mortal Kombat Tournament, Lab Gaming

by gamessoc

Hey everyone, I'd best start off by introducing myself, I'm Craig Gavagan Mac Entee and I'm your newly elected Secretary! [Insert generic slutty secretary joke here]. Now that that's out of the way, I've got some amazing things to tell you! This week we have: - Movie Night | Tuesday 6pm | Henry Grattan Building, C104 - Mortal Kombat Tournament @ Console Gaming | Wednesday 2-6pm | The Hub, Old Bar - Traditional Gaming | Wednesday 6-10pm | Science Building, XG14 - PC Gaming | Thursday 6-10pm | Henry Grattan Building, C204 - Clyde Night | Friday 8pm It's all very exciting isn't it? But first I have to tell you about the EGM! The EGM was held at Traditional Gaming on Wednesday, to elect a Secretary and a PRO. Nominations were given, speeches spoken, questions answered, hands raised and Claire Whitehead and myself were elected as your new PRO and Secretary respectively. We both hope to be able to serve the membership of gamessoc to the best of our abilities this year. - Movie Night | Tuesday 6pm | C104 In order to get you geared up for the big tournament on Wednesday we'll be showing the first Mortal Kombat film in C104 at 6pm. We may have to change the location on the night, but we will make sure to let you know of any changes. - Mortal Kombat Tournament @ Console Gaming | Wednesday 2-6pm | The Hub, Old Bar This week we'll be running a Mortal Kombat tournament at Console Gaming. Entry will be €2 per person with cool prizes for the winner and runner up. Of course if Mortal Kombat isn't your thing, we'll still have the rest of the consoles set up as always. - Traditional Gaming | Wednesday 6-10pm | Science Building, XG14 As it is Halloween this Monday, Traditional Gaming won't be on, but never fear! We'll still have it on Wednesday, and we'll play all your favourites, from Bang and Pit to Family Business. As always, if there's anything you'd like to play, feel free to reply and tell us what you'd like to play. The list of games we have is at http://boardgamegeek.com/collection/user/DCUgamessoc but feel free to bring in anything we don't have if you want to play it. - PC Gaming | Thursday 6-10pm | Henry Grattan Building, C204 It has returned, glorious as ever! Come on back to the cozy confines of C204 and revel in the likes of Counter Strike, Team Fortress 2, Left For Dead and many other PC Gaming regulars. - 40k Tournament Our Warhammer 40K tournament will be starting soon so dust off your models and terrain and let us settle our problems like real men, with lesser men that will do the dying for us. If you don't have an army and still want to take part gamessoc has a spare army for you to use. If you'd just like to learn the game, come to traditional gaming and we'll be happy to give you a crash course. - Dominicon Dominicon is starting on the 11th of November this year in NUIM. Gamessoc are organising a group to go, so let us know if you're interested in going. More info is at http://www.dominicon.info and we'll have pricing info next week. Right, I think that's everything so if you'll excuse me, I have to go finish my renegade Mass Effect run. So I'll see you next week, in the meantime if you have any questions do feel free to email. Craig Gavagan Mac Entee DCU Games Society http://games.dcu.ie/

12 years, 10 months

[Announce-gamesoc] Traditional Gaming tonight

by gamessoc

Hey guys, Just a quick reminder that despite Console Gaming being cancelled, Traditional and Tabletop gaming will still be running after the EGM today in XG15 at 6pm. Come along and torment me like always. - Duff

12 years, 10 months

[Announce-gamesoc] Week 5 Update: EGM, Consoles Cancelled, Film Trip, GaelCon

by gamessoc

Hey folks, Quick update on events this week - EGM Wednesday 6-7pm XG15 - - Console Gaming Canceled tomorrow Wednesday - - Film Trip 8pm Thursday - - GaelCon | 28th - 31st October | the RDS - - EGM Wednesday 6-7pm XG15 - Tomorrow we're having a EGM to elect a Secretary and PRO. The EGM is on in room XG15 at 6pm. There will be pizza for all members. - Console Gaming Canceled tomorrow Wednesday - Due to the flooding of the basement on Monday we'll have to cancel consoles tomorrow to sort out our equipment. Don't worry about a thing we'll have it running next Wednesday. - Film Trip: Real Steel 8:50pm Thursday - We'll be heading to go see Real steel with Strange Things. It'll be €3:50 per person and if you're interested in going just email us back. We'll be meeting in the nubar and leaving for the film at 8. So you can meet up with us anytime from 7-8. - GaelCon | 28th - 31st October | the RDS - The convention will be set up in the RDS due to the D4 hotel flooding. The convention has a huge list of RPGs, card games, war games and special events like the BattleTech Clan war matches or Thud: the musical. If you're going to the convention make sure you keep your receipt. If you email us and bring the receipt to one of DCU Games Soc's committee members, we'll refund you the ticket price. If you'd like to know more about the convention visit http://www.gaelcon.com/gaelcon/ That's all for now. If you have any questions about the above pieces, please email us at games(a)redbrick.dcu.ie Yours Deliciously Oisin Kelly DCU Games Society http://games.dcu.ie/

12 years, 10 months

[Announce-gamesoc] Zombie Week: Humans vs Zombies, EGM and more

by gamessoc

Hey Folks, It's Zombie Week and I hope you're all ready for the big HvZ game this week. Here's the week roundup: - EGM | Wednesday 26th October 6pm | Science Building, XG15 - - Zombies Versus Humans Bandana signup | Monday 24th October | 12 Noon - 6pm - - Zombie Survival Training with Paranormal | Monday 24th October | 6pm - - Traditional Gaming | Monday 6-10pm, Henry Grattan, C165 | Wednesday 7-10pm, Science Building, XG15 - - Console Gaming | Wednesday 2-6pm | The Hub, Old Bar - - PC Gaming | Not on this week - - EGM | Wednesday 26th October 6pm | Science Building, XG15 - This Wednesday we'll be voting on the positions for PRO and Secretary. The Secretary's job is to handle records of meetings and write up the weekly emails. PRO handles the advertisement of the society. That covers posters and any other methods of advertisement. The EGM will begin at 6pm in XG15 and there's going to be free pizza for members. - Zombies Versus Humans Bandana signup | Monday 24th October | 12 noon - 4pm | The Hub - If you're signed up for the Humans Versus Zombies game then you'll need to collect your bandana tomorrow so your in the game. We'll be doing this in the hub from 12am - 4pm so if you're signed up you'll just need to collect the bandana to begin playing. For during the sign ups the Hub is a no play zone. If you haven't signed up yet head to http://games.dcu.ie/hvz/ and register for the site and the game. Also make sure you write down your kill pin when you sign up on a piece of paper and carry it with you for the full duration of the game. - Zombie Survival Training with Paranormal | Monday 24th October | 6pm CG03- Paranormal are having a zombie survival training session so if you've signed up to HvZ then you can attend their training and get the most out of the game. It starts at 6pm in CG03 so head on down for some tips on dealing with the hoard. - Traditional Gaming | Monday 6-10pm, Henry Grattan, C165 | Wednesday 7-10pm, Science Building, XG15 - So with zombies everywhere on campus this week it was only a matter of time before traditional gaming was over run so this week traditional gaming will have a theme of zombie/horror games will you be able to escape to safety in a game of "zombies" survive the terrors of "betrayal on house on the hill" or play some of the normal games with a zombie twist. Can you stop the zombie outbreak in "pandemic" or conquer the world with your legions of the undead in a game of "risk" - Console Gaming | Wednesday 2-6pm | The Hub, Old Bar - Console Gaming is, as always, on in the Old Bar on Wednesdays at 2pm and since 'tis the season to be scared shitless, we'll have games like Dead Space Extraction, House of the Dead Overkill and Nazi zombies on Call of Duty available to play because in case you couldn't tell, we like zombies.....and cakes. - PC Gaming | Not on this week - We're still having some problem chasing down someone at the ISS to get the PCs imaged. I apologise for the delay in PC gaming. That's all for this week. I'm off to a date with the prettiest girl on the block. Here's her picture: http://tinyurl.com/6xqjklj Yours Deliciously Oisin "Spoony Bard" Kelly DCU Games Society http://games.dcu.ie/

12 years, 10 months

[Announce-gamesoc] EGM & Zombies Versus Humans

by gamessoc

Hey folks, Here's a large update on zombie week(that's next week) with Games Soc & Paranormal Society - EGM | Wednesday 26th October 6pm | Science Building, XG15 - - Zombies Versus Humans | Monday 24th October - - EGM | Wednesday 26th October - This EGM is to vote on the 2 vacant committee positions. It'll be held in XG15 in the science building and starts at 6pm. The positions are: - Secretary - PRO If you'd like more info on the positions please email us back at games(a)redbrick.dcu.ie. There will be free pizza at the EGM for every member. - Zombies Versus Humans - There's a sign up site at http://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/~paddez/hvz/game_index.php You can sign up there for the game and we'll be starting the game on Monday 24th. The rules are also there but there's a few changes in this email listed below. We'll be in college to hand out bandanna to the players and start the first mission for the remainder of the day. We'll decide on a place and time to meet up on Monday this week. The game will continue for the rest of the week with special missions each day. The game time starts at 8am and ends at 8pm every day. This is so people can head home and rest at the end of the day. Game Area The layout for the game area is here: http://i.imgur.com/4EBzp.png Be careful along roadside areas. Gear needed: Bandanna (supplied) A weapon (Nerf gun and/or socks) ID card Safety rules: No realistic weaponry No weapons inside buildings No traffic areas Safe Zones: All buildings, lecture halls and bathrooms. Human Rules Headbands are to be on your arm at all times in the play zone and your ID card is to be on you at all times. Your weapons can stun zombies for 10min. If you've been tagged you must give the zombie that tagged you your id card and an hour later change into a zombie. Zombie Rules They need to feed every 12 hours (active game time) or die off. This is tracked by the site. Headbands to be worn on the head at all times in the play zone. You must collect ID tags on tagging and enter them into the site to mark a human as bitten and reset your feeding counter. If hit by a human you're frozen in place for 10 min. Other Rules Banned if they attack a non-player No outside influence from non-players Both feet outside a safe zone to tag someone No shields safety for people at sports training safety for lectures, labs and exams That's all for this email. Hope to see you all next week for some good old fashioned zombie fun. Yours Deliciously Oisin Kelly DCU Games Society http://games.dcu.ie/

12 years, 11 months

[Announce-gamesoc] Week 4: Gears of War 3 Tournament, Zombies Versus Humans & Casual Night

by gamessoc

Hey everybody, We're getting closer to the highly anticipated release of Dance Central 2! Also the greatest Batman game ever made is coming out. I guess that's good too. Anyway here's what's on this week: - Casual Gaming | Monday 6-10pm | Henry Grattan, C165 - - Gears of War 3 Tournament @ Console Gaming | Wednesday 2-6pm | The Hub, Old Bar - - Traditional Gaming | Wednesday 6-10pm | Science Building, XG15 - - PC Gaming | Not on this week - - Clyde Night | Friday 8pm - But first a piece on a Zombies Vs Humans game for zombie week. Zombies Vs Humans is a campus wide game where students fend off a increasing hoard of zombies for the week. It'll take place on campus and will be completely free to play. It'll begin on Monday 24th where we'll be handing out the equipment you'll need and running over some basic rules. Main item you'll need is a weapon, that's either some form of Nerf gun or even balled up socks for defense against the hoard. I'll be sending out a more detailed email on rules later this week. If you're interested in playing just email us back. - Casual Gaming | Monday 6-10pm | Henry Grattan, C165 - This Monday at traditional gaming we'll be playing some of our more social games such as Cranium, Apples to Apples, Monopoly and maybe even a bit of Werewolves too. All are welcome to come along as always, especially our new members and freshers. If these games don't suit you then don't worry, well still be bringing along the classics like Risk, Paranoia and San Juan. See you there at 6pm in C165. - Gears of War 3 Tournament @ Console Gaming | Wednesday 2-6pm | The Hub, Old Bar - We'll be running a Gears of War 3 tournament on Wednesday. These will be 2v2 wingman matches. You can sign up as pairs if you and a friend want to try or you can sign up solo and we'll pair you up. The entry is €4 per person and there'll be prizes for the winners. Sign ups start at 2pm and the tournament begins at 3pm. Of course if you're not interested in the tournament we'll still have some consoles set up on the day. - Traditional Gaming | Wednesday 6-10pm | Science Building, XG15 - If anybody has any requests for what games to bring this week post up what you'd like to see on the forum topic here: http://games.dcu.ie/forums/index.php?topic=2041.450 We have a list of our games here at boardgame geek: http://boardgamegeek.com/collection/user/DCUgamessoc - PC Gaming | Not on this week - Sorry. We're still waiting on the ISS to get the lab PCs imaged. - Clyde Night | Friday 8pm - Hop onto our teamspeak server at clyde.redbrick.dcu.ie and steam on Friday night and we'll be having a few matches of whatever people want to play. Our steam group is here if you want to be notified when clyde night starts http://steamcommunity.com/groups/gamessoc That's all for this week, I'm off to to fling orcs into acid. Yours Deliciously Oisin "Master of Unlocking" Kelly DCU Games Society http://games.dcu.ie/

12 years, 11 months

[Announce-gamesoc] Week 3: Pitfighting, Clyde & Consoles

by gamessoc

Hey Folks, Here's to a new week of brand new games and the steady decline of my bank account funds. Here's the rundown this week: - Traditional Gaming | Monday 6-10pm | Henry Grattan, C165 - - Clyde Night | Tuesday 8pm | Steam, Teamspeak - - Console Gaming | Wednesday 2-6pm | The Hub, Old Bar - - Pathfinder Pitfighting | Wednesday 6-10pm | Science Building, XG15 - - PC Gaming | Not on this week - - Traditional Gaming | Monday 6-10pm | Henry Grattan, C165 - We'll be in room C165 in the Henry Grattan building from 6-10pm for traditional gaming. Here we play games like San Juan, Risk, Paranoia and Pit. Of course that's not all we have. We have a huge list of games here: http://boardgamegeek.com/collection/user/DCUgamessoc If you have any suggestions on what to bring just post here: http://games.dcu.ie/forums/index.php?topic=2041.450 - Clyde Night | Tuesday 8pm - For those who don't know what Clyde night is it's where we all meet up online and play a few PC games. We have a Teamspeak server where we usually meet up for this. The Teamspeak hostname is clyde.redbrick.dcu.ie. We will also be on steam using our steam group so if you haven't signed up yet to the group I suggest you do so now here: http://steamcommunity.com/groups/gamessoc - Console Gaming | Wednesday 2-6pm | The Hub, Old Bar - Console gaming's on in the Hub in the Old Bar. That's the large room directly across from the Venue. It's on from 2-6pm. We'll have 2 Wiis, 2 PS3s and 2 360s set up so there will be something for everyone. We have a large selection of games like Smash Bros, Gears of War 3, Bomberman and we just got a copy of FIFA 12 this week so there's a lot to play. If you've got a PSP or DS bring them too. We usually have a few games of Tetris DS, Mario Kart and take on a few missions in Metal Gear: Peacewalker and Monster Hunter. - Pathfinder Pitfighting | Science Building, XG15 | Wednesday 6-10pm - Just a quick note that while Pitfighting is on Wednesday we'll still have a normal Traditional gaming night on also in the same room. You may be wondering what exactly is pit fighting. Think of it as the survival mode of an RPG where we take all that distracting story and plot and side quest and chuck it in a skip somewhere and focus on combat. So you fight against monsters until you fight till you are the last player standing and then... you fight more until everyone is dead. No experience is needed so if you have ever wanted to give a tabletop RPG a shot now is your chance. Characters will be provided on the day but if by any chance you are familiar with the pathfinder role playing system feel free to bring your own 3rd level character. You can use any class/race from the core rule book only no advance players guide or alternate classes allowed. - PC Gaming - I apologise yet again that PC Gaming will not be on this week. You may strike me with paddles for this insult. That's all this week hope you have a great time while I slowly punish myself playing Dark Souls. Yours Deliciously Oisin "A WINNER IS YOU" Kelly DCU Games Society http://games.dcu.ie/

12 years, 11 months

[Announce-gamesoc] Welcome to GamesSoc & Maynooth MiniCon Trip

by St John Oisin Kelly

My apologies to all who already received this email. Hey everybody! First up I just want to say thanks to everybody who came down to our stall, signed up and played a few rounds. This email is going to be on 2 things: - Welcome to Games Soc! - - Maynooth Games Society Trip - Expect a email this Weekend giving you all an update on what on next week. - Welcome to Games Soc! - Welcome everybody to the Games Society! This is just a little introduction for you guys to check out a few places you can talk and introduce yourselves. First stop is the Website and forums at http://games.dcu.ie. Here's where you'll find all the info you need on weekly events, special announcements and of course general discussion of all things related or unrelated to games. If you've signed up there please feel free to introduce yourselves here: http://games.dcu.ie/forums/index.php?topic=3059.0 Next up is our FaceBook and Twitter pages. You can keep up to date on events here: http://twitter.com/#!/GamesSoc and post on our wall on Facebook here:http://www.facebook.com/groups/107549179282938/?notif_t=group_r2j Like IRC? Joined Redbrick? then just enter in "/join #gamessoc" to hop onto our channel and chat with the rest of GamesSoc. Finally if you have a steam account then you can join our group http://steamcommunity.com/groups/gamessoc and get announcements on online events and matches on our own servers. I'd like to thank you all for signing up for the Games Society and to keep an eye out for future emails on weekly events. - Maynooth Games Society Trip - This Saturday the 8th of October we'll be heading up to Maynooth to meet up with their Games Society for some tournaments, wargaming and plenty of free food. They'll be running all day from 11am onwards with loads of PCs, consoles, board games, card games and war games so there'll be something for everybody. For 40K players the matches will be casual standard 1750pts games. If you're into Magic then bring your deck as there's a good few players in NUI. Tournaments for video games will be decided on the day depending on what people want and all tournaments are free entry and there'll be prizes for the winners. They have a huge selection of board games also so you'll have a lot to play for the day. I'll talk about the travel plans for us here. We plan to get the train from Connolly Station to Maynooth at 9:36am and arrive at Maynooth for 10:16 then walk the rest of the way up. If you're interested in going but want to take the train later or at a different stop then the link for the train schedule is here: http://tinyurl.com/6jovcl6 We'll be meetin up in the Connolly train station at 9:00-9:20. It's €6.20 for a return ticket but the first ten comming with GamesSoc that morning get their ticket paid for. So you'll need to email me back if you're interested in going. >From the Maynooth station we'll be heading to the John Hume Building in NUI if you're with us we'll lead you there but otherwise here's a map to the area from the train station: http://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/~creamygo/files/Maynooth%20Map.png (I apologise for the horrible paint job) Yet again I'll mention if you want to head up with us the first ten to respond to this email will have their return ticket paid for so if you're interested in going just email us back. That's all for now folks! Thanks again for checking us out on the Clubs and Socs days and I hope you all have a great time this year. Yours Deliciously Oisin John St John Kelly Chairperson DCU Games Society

12 years, 11 months

[Announce-gamesoc] Welcome to GamesSoc & Maynooth MiniCon Trip

by St John Oisin Kelly

Hey everybody! First up I just want to say thanks to everybody who came down to our stall, signed up and played a few rounds. This email is going to be on 2 things: - Welcome to Games Soc! - - Maynooth Games Society Trip - Expect a email this Weekend giving you all an update on what on next week. - Welcome to Games Soc! - Welcome everybody to the Games Society! This is just a little introduction for you guys to check out a few places you can talk and introduce yourselves. First stop is the Website and forums at http://games.dcu.ie. Here's where you'll find all the info you need on weekly events, special announcements and of course general discussion of all things related or unrelated to games. If you've signed up there please feel free to introduce yourselves here: http://games.dcu.ie/forums/index.php?topic=3059.0 Next up is our FaceBook and Twitter pages. You can keep up to date on events here: http://twitter.com/#!/GamesSoc and post on our wall on Facebook here:http://www.facebook.com/groups/107549179282938/?notif_t=group_r2j Like IRC? Joined Redbrick? then just enter in "/join #gamessoc" to hop onto our channel and chat with the rest of GamesSoc. Finally if you have a steam account then you can join our group http://steamcommunity.com/groups/gamessoc and get announcements on online events and matches on our own servers. I'd like to thank you all for signing up for the Games Society and to keep an eye out for future emails on weekly events. - Maynooth Games Society Trip - This Saturday the 8th of October we'll be heading up to Maynooth to meet up with their Games Society for some tournaments, wargaming and plenty of free food. They'll be running all day from 11am onwards with loads of PCs, consoles, board games, card games and war games so there'll be something for everybody. For 40K players the matches will be casual standard 1750pts games. If you're into Magic then bring your deck as there's a good few players in NUI. Tournaments for video games will be decided on the day depending on what people want and all tournaments are free entry and there'll be prizes for the winners. They have a huge selection of board games also so you'll have a lot to play for the day. I'll talk about the travel plans for us here. We plan to get the train from Connolly Station to Maynooth at 9:36am and arrive at Maynooth for 10:16 then walk the rest of the way up. If you're interested in going but want to take the train later or at a different stop then the link for the train schedule is here: http://tinyurl.com/6jovcl6 We'll be meetin up in the Connolly train station at 9:00-9:20. It's €6.20 for a return ticket but the first ten comming with GamesSoc that morning get their ticket paid for. So you'll need to email me back if you're interested in going. >From the Maynooth station we'll be heading to the John Hume Building in NUI if you're with us we'll lead you there but otherwise here's a map to the area from the train station: http://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/~creamygo/files/Maynooth%20Map.png (I apologise for the horrible paint job) Yet again I'll mention if you want to head up with us the first ten to respond to this email will have their return ticket paid for so if you're interested in going just email us back. That's all for now folks! Thanks again for checking us out on the Clubs and Socs days and I hope you all have a great time this year. Yours Deliciously Oisin John St John Kelly Chairperson DCU Games Society

12 years, 11 months

[Announce-gamesoc] Clubs and Societies Week!

by DCU Games Soc

Hey guys, It's Clubs and Societies Week! I hope you're all settled back into college and ready for some new GamesSoc members to roll in. Here's whats on this week: - Clubs and Societies Days - All day Tuesday and Wednesday in The Hub - Traditional Games Monday - 6-10pm Building: Henry Grattan Room C165 - Traditional Games Wednesday - 6-10pm, Building: Science, Room: XG15 - Console Games - *Not on due to C&S day" - PC Games - *Not on this week sorry* - Clubs and Societies Days - On Tuesday and Wednesday we'll be set up at the top of the Venue in the Hub for Clubs and Societies week. This is where you can come on over and renew your membership as well as show your support and relax by playing a few games with freshers at our table. We'll be set up all day Tuesday and Wednesday so come on down for some free sweets and fun games! - Traditional Games and a new RPG room - Traditional games for Monday will be in room C165 in the Henry Grattan Building from 6pm to 10pm. On Wednesday we'll be in room XG15 in the Science Building from 6-10pm. We also have room C165 in the Henry Grattan booked from 6-10pm. This room is for RPGs and can be used by anybody from GamesSoc. If you feel like using the room anytime just email us back. As mentioned before our games list is here: http://boardgamegeek.com/collection/user/DCUgamessoc. If you feel like playing with my balls head onto http://games.dcu.ie/forums/index.php?topic=2041.0 and post what game you'd like to see there. That's all this week. Yours Lovingly, Oisin Kelly

12 years, 11 months

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