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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[–] 10 points 1 day ago (1 child)

That's rough. I'm not sure if meetup is popular in your area, but reaching out to a few and having them set it up as a "joint event" or something might be helpful. All that being said, is there a possibility you can set it up at the college town and have people commute to that instead of maybe college students commuting?

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  • [–] [S] 4 points 23 hours ago

    Yes there's three other locations in that area including one on campus but I'm starting it off at my location as a proof of concept with the hopes of building a wider video gaming community around the whole state/country. It's a veterans organization and the thinking is that video gaming can help with ptsd and isolation.

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