The Ugandan Village Boardgame Convention

Today marked the arrival of the container after three month of delays and difficulties. It also marks the end of this first chapter in boardgaming in Uganda's rural areas and the start of a new chapter, we are calling Gamechangers. Here's the container moving into its temporary resting place.  At this…

On Friday we launched our new project - Gamechangers.  This is a project to build on the Ugandan Village Boardgame Convention and turn it into something permanent that young people can visit every week to play their favourite boardgames.  We hope to set up two boardgame clubs, one at our…

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It's been a fairly frenetic few weeks and we've been discussing our future plans in new ways.  The fact of the matter is that, without our new boardgames arriving yet, we don't have enough material to put on Kampala Games Day and, while we are hopeful that everything will…

Thanks all who contributed to this project.  The boys have really taken to the idea of being the ones to develop boardgames in Uganda and last Sunday, we filmed their first "review-style" podcast and they say they'd like to do more of these in the future if you like them.…

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I thought a few might be interested to know that some of the kids who were organising were interviewed by Ben Maddox on his podcast Infoperfected, which you can see here.

You'll hear Arnold and Beckham and later, Patrick's views on how the event went, what they did there, what…