BOARDGAMES AND OTHER PLANS: A REPORT FROM A FUGITIVE.

I entered a competition.
   And now you know that I had other plans.

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For a million years I've been planning more content. This involves writing. But the content is visual. Yes, I'm making videos. And yes, I'm using a lot of silly voices in populating those videos with characters.

   I decided I could do something vague in the area of boardgames. Boardgaming is about telling stories by hurling plastic cubes across cardboard maps...

Or hunting Dracula across Europe...

  
 Trying to track the Whitechapel murderer to his lair...
   Assisting Sherlock Holmes in curious investigations...

 Monopoly it ain't.

   Setting up a small film studio, I went about the daunting task of assembling a system, a machine, for churning out videos about games. Yes, I had to buy in a load of games of all shapes and sizes. In all sorts of price-brackets.

  

Occasionally, I backed a KICKSTARTER. One game arrived. And with it, thanks to the makers, came a chance to win a prize if I did an unboxing video.

   This marketing move put me under the gun. I had a time-limit, and brought my video plans forward.

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What will this boardgame channel, on the YouTube, bring to the audience? Silly voices, of course.

   I have no interest in acting. However, down the years people kept telling me I should be one of those actors, dahling. Not having any interest in that area, I stuck to writing stories.

In writing stories, I read my work aloud in the different accents of the characters passing through semi-imaginary worlds.

   Now I plan to inflict those silly voices on a bewildered public. But there's more to this than hijinks and low comedy.

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One offshoot of boardgaming, with its own playlist on the YouTube channel, will be BOARDGAMING WITH TOURETTE. I'll host games internationally, with Melissa C. Water in Canada.

We'll explore the idea of running games with someone who faces more than a few difficulties in getting through play. This includes Tourette tics, Coprolalia, and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder.

   Just typing COPROLALIA TOURETTE into the search engine throws one of Melissa's videos at me. For the purposes of this blog, I searched for BOARDGAMING TOURETTE.

   I discovered one game on the boardgaming database, BGG, about shouting a word as you turn a card over. No videos found. Smjj from Sweden doesn't like it. Thanks, boardgame database. Hardly inspirational stuff. Leaving the database for the wider world web, I tried again.

   BOARDGAMING WITH TOURETTE threw the same vague card game at me. Surely we can do better than this. There are many hurdles to blast through. Blasting through them, we'll find that we can do better than this.
   As with everything else, these plans take a million years and a million more. But I am under the gun, and must away to unbox a game in front of several cameras.

Pictured above: Pandemic Legacy, with 12 mm dice replacing stickers. Fury of Dracula, 3rd edition, receiving an undead helping hand. Sherlock Holmes, Consulting Detective: Whitechapel/West End adventures.
   Deep Sea Adventure with a playmat replacing the submarine token. Pandemic: Reign of Cthulhu. A cluster of ships spilling across the board of Black Fleet.
   Melissa C. Water appears by kind permission.