It may have been “Game Over” during the COVID-19 pandemic, but the Keene State Gamer’s Guild is hitting “Play Again” this semester thanks to the effort of a group of first-year students.
“We like to teach a lot of new games,” first-year and Gamer’s Guild President Quinne Richard said. “Board games, video games; we’re going to create games at some point, we’re going to manage D&D stuff and we’re working with the new Magic: The Gathering Club that wants to start up.”
“Every week, we have a theme or type of game that we want to show off, and then we’ll teach it to the group,” they added.
Richard said they had many ideas for the club, including a game borrowing system.
“[If] other clubs or people want to borrow a game for a day or a couple of weeks, then we’ll have that as an option for them,” they said.
According to Richard, the club is not strictly focused on certain games and is open to new suggestions.
“You don’t have to play the game that we’re teaching,” they said. “Just intermingling with people who are open-minded and want to get more into gaming.”
For future semesters, Richard said they want to lean more into Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) content.
“I know there’s been a lot of talk that people want more D&D,” they said. “I have hopes for the future to do a sort of monetary type thing, because DM’ing is a really hard thing for D&D.”
Richard said the Gamer’s Guild also hopes to collaborate with more organizations.
“In the past, other presidents have done a collaboration with the Pride Club and called it ‘Gay-ming Night,’ they said. “And then there’s been times where they combine with the [Global] Cultural Club. I know that I want to have them teach us some different cultural games. I think that would be very fun.”
First-year general member Amber Suarez said that they originally joined the Guild for video games, but they enjoy the variety the group brings.
“It’s a good opportunity to learn some new things and have some fun,” they said.
Suarez said that their favorite part of being part of the Guild has been “getting to have more interaction with other students and just having fun playing games.”
First-year Anthony Rich, secretary of the Gamer’s Guild, said that he joined the club originally for the social opportunities.
“I think games are a really good bonding activity,” Rich said.
Rich’s advice for anyone thinking about joining the Gamer’s Guild is to “try it out. It’s just playing games, it’s not competitive at all.”
The Gamer’s Guild meets every Friday from 4 to 7 p.m in the L.P Young Student Center.
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