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18
Apr 2013

Gambling Lambs #45: The One With Gentlemen Thieves

Not real ones! Neither thieves that steal gentlemen, nor thieves that happen to be gentlemen, but the game themed on characters like Arsène Lupin and Raffles. Though regarding the latter, it doesn’t involve bloodlust or bashing your own head in to fool the police. Just bluffing and tricking the other players.

If it arrives in time, we’ll also have Skull & Roses, which is an excellently simple bluffing game in which you can all really mess with each other. Two points to win sounds almost as simple as the game is to explain, but it really isn’t.

We also have 2 new games fresh from the Orc’s Nest (a wonderful little board games/comic shop in the heart of London). Joining our game selection is 7 Wonders and Village.

So: four new games, tea, bluffing, and not murder. Downstairs at Lee Rosy’s, Broad Street, Nottingham, from 18:00 on Thursday the 2nd of May. If you happen to like Facebook, there’s an event page here.

(CC photo by Ian Eure)

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02
Nov 2011

Gambling Lambs #28: The One With Johann Sebastian Joust

Hey! We had a marvellous time at GameCity, thanks for coming. Hopefully get some photos up soon. For now, the next Gambling Lambs is tomorrow, and we have something very special for you.

You see this?

Johann Sebastian Joust in Death Valley! from Die Gute Fabrik on Vimeo.

That Johann Sebastian Joust, that is. It was developed by a lovely man called Doug, from Die Gute Fabrik, along with his friends Nils and Niklas. He’s sent us a copy, and we’ve piled up the PS Move controllers so you can play it, tomorrow, from 21:00 at Lee Rosys. Before that, from 18:00, we’ll have all the usual games too. See you there!

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09
Apr 2011

Gambling Lambs Minecraft Server

Quick Shot of the Server Spawn!

You’ll be pleased to know that the Gambling Lambs Minecraft Server is now up and running and ready for people to log on to!

Massive apologies that this has taken so long to set up, I’ve been really, really busy this week and I’ve just not had time to test the permissions and get everything sorted.

There’s a whitelist in place, so you’ll be able to log on, but you won’t be able to build until you contact us first. This can be done by emailing myself (rossaluss[at]gmail[dot]com) mentioning you’d like to be added to the whitelist. You’ll receive an email when this has been done.

Everyone who took part in the GameCity Nights Mega Minecraft Marathon is already on the whitelist, so you need not email me, just go ahead and start playing.

Item genning is turned off for everybody by default. We’d like to keep it that way, however if you really *really* want item genning enabled, let me know via email (as mentioned above) and I’m sure you’ll be able to twist my arm.

Finally, you can connect to the server by typing the following in the IP Address Box on the client;

m.gamblinglambs.com:29265

Unfortunately you still need the port number after the address because we’re not hosted on the default port (using a game server rental place).

I look forwards to seeing you all on there and everything we can build together!

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02
Apr 2011

Gambling Lambs #21

Gambling Lambs #21 will be next Thursday. David will be in Edinburgh that week, but fret not, Ross will not be.

This month, there’s a bunch of links for you.

First, for those of you that haven’t heard, there is another Dixit coming in a few months.
It’ll have a box big enough to hold all of the cards from the previous two as well.

Also, not sure if we’ve pointed out Robert Florence before. He did a lot of videogames stuff (Consolevania, Videogaiden), and now also writes about boardgames. His own site is Downtime Town. He also writes Cardboard Children for Rock Paper Shotgun.

If you’re interested in the kind of longer session games that we tend not to have at Gambling Lambs, he does good write ups about them.

 

On another note, just to pre-warn everybody, May’s Gambling Lambs is again being usurped by the Government and it’s love of holding Public Referendums & Elections on the first Thursday of the month of May.

Due to this, we will be holding May’s Gambling Lambs (NOT April’s) on Wednesday 4th May.

Please don’t turn up on Thursday 5th May as we won’t be there. Instead, please take this opportunity to place your vote on AV.

 

Finally, as mentioned in the previous post, Gambling Lambs is getting a Minecraft server. It was hoped we would have it up and running by today, however due to Notch releasing the 1.4 update recently, the Mod the server is running is likely to be out of date until Monday. We didn’t have time before it updated to conduct proper testing to ensure the permissions are all working correctly, therefore due to this, it is likely that the server will now not be up and running until Monday/Tuesday. Details (including the address to connect to) will be announced around this time.

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25
Mar 2011

GameCity Nights Mega Minecraft Marathon Update

Hello everyone!

The Gambling Lambs GameCity Nights Mega Minecraft Marathon finishes today at 6pm!

World editing will be turned off at this time so as to not allow any further edits to be made whilst we judge!

You will still be able to log on and wander around whilst we judge though/show us things if there’s something you want us to see, however there will need to be at least 2 of the 12 spaces free for myself and David to log in to.

We will be judging live throughout the night on one of the screens in Antenna if you’d like to watch and then revealing the winner towards the end of the night on the main screen, so you will all know who won!

So make those finishing touches and we will see you tonight!

Thanks =)

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