Breaking the Ice with Codenames

My experience with table top gaming and board games over the years has been limited to mass-market games such as Monopoly, Pictionary, Uno and Snakes and Ladders.

However, I have recently found an interest in Dungeons and Dragons through watching The Oxventurer’s Guild campaign and have since then found myself looking into other groups on YouTube that play games such as this.

Doctor Who 50th Anniversary Monopoly Edition

Through my BCM 300 Game Making subject, I have been able to experience board games that I had never heard of. In our first week of class, we were split into groups and I found myself in a group with three other people whom I had never met before. Introductions and social interactions can be awkward, but with the premise of playing a game it was made easier. The first game assigned to us, Codenames, helped to break the ice between us…