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I set up a game night and nobody came (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 hours ago by PriorityMotif@lemmy.world to c/gaming@lemmy.ml

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I set up a public game night for a non profit organization. The event space has a bar on one side and Pizza and snacks are available. All ages are welcome as the bar side is segregated from where the gaming area is. We posted it in some FB local groups and I found some local subreddits and discord servers. I even made an Instagram account but it flagged my flyer as spam. It's a smallish town with about 14k people but near a much bigger college town by about 30 minutes. I'm at a loss as what to do since I'm going to give it a go this week too. We discussed having a vintage video game competition such as an old arcade game. Am I missing something or are game nights just not that popular?

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[–] verdigris@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

Yeah I think the sheer open-endedness is actually harming you here. I would narrow down to the point where you have some sort of concrete theme or intention beyond "come play any type of game". You might even want to start with one specific game that's somewhat flexible in terms of player count, at least in your promo material; you can always have backups and other options on hand in case more or less people show up than you were planning for.

Once you have a few regulars, you can start expanding. I think this sort of catch-all approach is better when you've already got some regulars and are starting to regularly get new people who express interest in other things.

Kind of unrelated, but are you cross-posting to places like Meetup? That's how I found my old board game group, though that was years ago so it might be less active these days.

[–] PriorityMotif@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago

I think I'm going to push pacman tournament this week since that seemed to be a hit with the older crowd. It's pacman championship edition dx+ so I think is more accessible than other pacman editions.