How do you schedule your game-time?

[penk]

From a conversation at work about how to allocate time... a poll!

[Poll #1652125]

Comments

[penk.livejournal.com]

One thing I probablyt should have added is 'iPhone gaming' - which I find myself doing a heck of a lot of.

[blk]

My total is probably around an average of 5, but it can vary quite a bit depending on whether I attend a games party that week or not. I also play games on my phone (not an iPhone) on the bus ride to and from work, and occasionally before bed, which is probably a half hour a day or so, max.

[qwrrty.livejournal.com]

I initially filled this out with "5-10 hours" for iPhone gaming, but then noticed "paper/cards" along with "Desktop." Quinn has been playing so much Go Fish and Pass the Pigs and Battleship with me that I surely have to bump that up to 10-20 hours.

When Portal 2 comes out you can expect to see that bump up to 20+ hours :-)

[tamidon.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure where I come into this. I often play solitaire,peggle,snood ,or something like that while watching telly or other stuff, it keeps my distractedness and fidgeting down, but I don't think that counts as gaming. If so it would probably be at 5-10 hours a week

[etherial.livejournal.com]

Tuesday: Babylon 5 card game, 7-12
Wednesday: Earthdawn RPG, 7-11
Friday: misc. gaming, 7-1

And, of course, Air Traffic Control on my cell phone whenever bored or waiting in line, as well as my daily killer sudoku.

[weegoddess.livejournal.com]

I WISH we could find a D&D group to game with around here. :-(

[dbang.livejournal.com]

Yup, that's me. 100% of my gaming time is sort of random free-time filler with little casual iphone games like angry birds or bookworm.

[geekchick]

I absolutely love Echo Bazaar, I've been playing it for months. Since it's turn-limited, I don't spend hours at a time playing it as I probably would otherwise. That and Bejeweled Blitz on Facebook are my current time wasters.

[soong.livejournal.com]

Starcraft 2!
Quit wow. Quit Eve.
Occasional android game. Occasional board and card gaming.

[penk.livejournal.com]

I have a whole list of iPhone games that I'm constantly chewing through. Currently I play Crosslogic pretty much constantly, with forays into sudoku, simcity, Ragdoll 2, and an occasional Cut the Rope.

Still haven't seen the draw of Angry Birds.

[penk.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah. Portal 2 is so there. I should probably chalk PTO now.

[pulito.livejournal.com]

Most recently I've been playing poker, Escape games (I recently discovered Bonte games and Neutral), Dominion, Magic, board games of all sorts.
~Becky

[inahandbasket]

Long story short, I used to play a lot of everything from FPS to MMORPG, but am the definition of a casual gamer these days.
What happened? ENSMB got busy, we bought a house and I have a woodworking shop in my basement now, working longer hours. Life's very different.

Quit WoW (probably 20 hours a week at peak).
Tried Eve, never stuck.
Tried other MMORPGs but most were casual flirtations.
For a year or two I played a lot of console games, haven't even unpacked it since moving two years ago.

Flash games: Lots.
Currently SuperCrateBox (not technically flash, but same concept).
Others that have sucked my time:
The PopCap arsenal of games
Defense games (tower defense, castle defense, etc.) and clones.
Lots more I can't think of off the top of my head.

Other:
Torchlight, a Diablo clone. Fun game, not enough content to keep me super hooked, as it was more or less a tech demo.
Diablo2 back in college. I shudder to think how much of my life went into that game. Made for a good thesis though, I graduated...
Diablo3 will definitely get some screen time on my computer when it drops.

Phone:
I play a LOT of solitaire on my phone while waiting for things or while... indisposed. In the bathroom. I didn't count this time in my poll response.

[catya.livejournal.com]

I'm including D&D in that...

[nchanter.livejournal.com]

Boardgames, anyone? Also, wasn't sure what category BSW (portal for playing online version of boardgames) should go under. So that went under "Other" though technically it's an MMO because there is a silly meta-game to it too.

[maebeth.livejournal.com]

I'd swear that last month the answer would have been 2 hours a month.
But now it 10hours a week. Yikes!
Pandemic and Iphone apps --mostly card games.

[keyne.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah.

"Gaming" to me doesn't include iPhone fiddling or playing cards or board games with the kids, so I initially put zero. Then I remembered how much time I rack up in Solitaire on the phone, then I remembered my sessions of Rummy 500 and Life (the Milton-Bradley version), ...

Sigh.

[harimad.livejournal.com]

Icon love.

[cos]

I picked "yeah, I've heard of that" because I currently spend an average of less than an hour a week gaming, but there have been times when I've gamed a lot more, and I'm sure there will be again. It fluctuates from year to year.

Edit: In the past decade, I'm sure the following have, together, accounted for a solid majority of my gaming time:
- nethack
- civilization
- board games of the settlers of cataan/pandemic/carcassone sort.

If I were talking about the 90s, I'd add more computer video games, like Frac (that simple 3-D Tetris that Caro was also obsessed with for a while), and LARPs.