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

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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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[–] mctoasterson@reddthat.com 6 points 1 hour ago

Good point. Ambiguity isn't your friend here.

I threw a LAN party or two back in college (faculty sponsored gaming club). We actually got Bawls Energy and some now-defunct PC peripheral companies to sponsor. I designed and hung posters, put an ad in the student paper, did some word-of-mouth adverts in classes.

The first event had what I thought at the time was good turnout of about 30 people. Most people were OK with mainstream LAN multiplayer games of the time, but there is always that one dude who wants to play Hello Kitty Island Adventure or whatever.

In other words, maybe be somewhat specific and name games that are likely to be played.