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Grand Lodge - Forest Grove, Ore. Private event for Pacific University staff retreat.
Oaks Amusement Park - Portland, Ore. Our home base. You can find us and play a game here most weekends. Look for us next to the roller skating rink.
NWE Brands - Milwaukie, Ore. A private team-building event. A friendly competition between 4 teams of 7 players each. For this event, we hid 72-hour go bags inside the room that the players got to keep.
OMSI, Portland, Ore. Our very first pop-up event where we offered free 5-minute mini-games.
Pop-Up @ Upper Crust Pizza - Rockaway Beach, Ore. What a fantastic weekend in Rockaway. We absolutely LOVED the owners who were able to host us for a very special weekend.
Pop-Up at High Water Grill in Silverton, Ore. November, 2023
Kite Festival - Rockaway Beach, Ore. A wonderful weekend on the coast where we ran quite a few 30-minute games.
Kite Festival - Rockaway Beach, Ore. Set up among the vendors where I had some fantastic caramel apple kettle corn.
Still putting a bird on it! It was an absolute pleasure to host a game for Fred Armisen, Lance Bangs, Riki Lindhome, Corin Tucker, and special guests. Special thanks to Danger Ehren McGhehey who took this photo.
Pop-Up @ Level Beer - Portland, Ore. A fantastic weekend, with fantastic beers and fantastic friends.
Tualatin Emergency Preparedness Fair - Tualatin, Ore. Tualatin's CERT team hosted a preparedness fair at the community park. We were happy to provide free 5-minute mini games for the public to help spread preparedness awareness.
Still putting a bird on it. Film friends play the Shaky Grounds Cafe.
Our very first deployment in September of 2022 at NET camp. This was our big beta test weekend where we put it all on the line.
Private Event - Mary's Woods Retirement Community - Lake Oswego, Ore. - 10/19/23
We have a New Record! 2/2/24
A great shot from one of our Camas guests!
A group shot from our Pop-Up event in Lincoln City, Ore in March 2024 featuring Cody Miller. Cody is an inspiration and the designer of my favorite board game of all time, Xia: Legends of a Drift System.
Lincoln City Pop-Up: March 2024

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