GeekOut Bristol Meet – February 10th: Castle Crashing Gallery

Ah yes, Castle Crashers is truly an awesome game which gave us some truly great ideas. We need to make a theme where people can come along and crash some castles. But how would people do this? Easily: They would simply draw their sword, wield their shields and march into the gate of the castle. This was a relatively quiet month for us, so it was great that we got so many creative entries out! However, check it out for our monthly GeekOut Bristol Meet Gallery!

Ah yes, Castle Crashers is truly an awesome game which gave us some truly great ideas. We need to make a theme where people can come along and crash some castles. But how would people do this? Easily: They would simply draw their sword, wield their shields and march into the gate of the castle. This was a relatively quiet month for us, so it was great that we got so many creative entries out! However, check it out for our monthly GeekOut Bristol Meet Gallery!

They came, they saw, they conquered – People were given a new style of competition: To design the best sword or shield they possibly can… To which people rose to the challenge! People were engrossed in the competition, throughout the entirety of the event. Further to that, we got the Raspberry Pi going once again and people were having a blast on the retro games. All we need now is a screen and blammo, we’ll be on our way to retro glory. As ever, here’s a look at all of the pictures we got during the event.

Our meetup house style – Not quite the same as writing house style, but this is the type of table you’ll always see at our meetup.
More stuff, including our usual tablet
GeekOut regular Jon decided to take a different approach to making a sword, earning him third place!
People got crafty!
In the main area, we begun a series of Chess games
Chess in action (courtesy of our friend Patrick)
Timlah pulls a face, for reasons.
Timlah’s opponent wasn’t so sure about these facey shenanigans!
Even Ben got in on the face pulling
And now an artsy overhead shot. Thanks Patrick!
Back to the shields – These were the first two submitted! The cute D.Va Shield on the left and the awesome Windows Defender on the right.
Age of War in action
Tetris! Everyone loves Tetris
If you can’t make it to our pre-meet, then the Old Market Tavern menu is delicious!
Bomberman?!
And then Super Mario Bros!
The D.Va Shield
Aegislash
The WIndows Defender
The Owowow Sword
The Bloody Bacon Shield
The Buster Sword (Third Place)
The Magical Girl Wand (First Place for using a sword and turning it into a wand!)

With all done, the night was a roaring success. We mentioned this was a quieter GeekOut, but we still managed 45 people, which was awesome. Everyone really got involved with the activities, so here’s hoping next month’s event will be equally as successful, as we’ll be making Cosplay on the Cheap! As ever though, if you were at the event and want to say a hello, drop a comment below, or over on Facebook and Twitter.

Author: Timlah

Certified gaymer with clout. Developing games and writing worlds. Loves people, but loves games and anime a bit more. Sorry people.