{"id":14906,"date":"2017-11-01T09:00:22","date_gmt":"2017-11-01T16:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=14906"},"modified":"2017-11-08T09:40:24","modified_gmt":"2017-11-08T17:40:24","slug":"camosun-video-games-club-gives-students-a-chance-to-unwind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2017\/11\/01\/camosun-video-games-club-gives-students-a-chance-to-unwind\/","title":{"rendered":"Camosun Video Games Club gives students a chance to unwind"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Camosun Video Games Club creates opportunities for students to unwind, meet, and greet over the great equalizer: video games. The club\u2019s activities, which include getting together to play on consoles like the Nintendo 64 and Game Boy, are low-key and relaxing\u2014not to mention entertaining.<\/p>\n

\u201cLots of people might want to play soccer, or they might want to play football or something, but you need a lot of stuff to do that,\u201d says Camosun College Student Society (CCSS) clubs and events coordinator Tagg Kelt, one of the club\u2019s founders. \u201cYou need to be outside, you need people who understand the rules… whereas, video games, all that stuff is built into it.\u201d<\/p>\n

The club is one of five student clubs promoted by the CCSS. Kelt says the student society picked some areas they thought people would be interested in and started clubs, in conjuction with Camosun International, that would have a guaranteed number of events or meetings. Those clubs are the Activities Club, the Karaoke Club, the Board Games Club, the Adventure Club, and the Video Games Club.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were going for something with a broader appeal than macrame or sewing, for example,\u201d says Kelt. \u201cThey were ones we thought people would be interested in, and we paid people to run them.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Camosun College Student Society clubs and events coordinator Tagg Kelt (photo by Adam Boyle\/Nexus<\/em>).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Kelt says that students come and go and get busy and forgetful, so club administration and activity tends to ebb and flow, which is why the CCSS decided to start up a handful of clubs that will be run by someone who will keep the club active. The plan is working so far, as evidenced by the Video Games Club numbers.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are about 100 people signed up, and then on any general event day, depending on what we\u2019re doing, we expect anywhere from 20 to 50 people, and that\u2019s not just all at once,\u201d he says. \u201cSome people come for a little bit, then they leave. Some people just stand around and watch others play.\u201d<\/p>\n

Second-year Biology student Adam Caflisch says that the club is a \u201cfun little community\u201d; he regularly attends the club\u2019s events.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it\u2019s cool that someone has taken the step forward to allow students to just come together and form those memories right then and there,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

The club aims for multiplayer games that will interest a group of people.\u00a0Kelt says that during the CCSS\u2019 Clubs Day, they had Mario Kart<\/i> out with inflatable chairs for people to sit on (\u201cIt was awesome,\u201d he says). The club mainly plays party-style games.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnything where you could have a group of people playing together, competitively, co-operatively\u2026 having the group dynamic was important,\u201d says Kelt. \u201cIt was sort of low-barrier.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kelt says that the CCSS saw video games as an activity that people could jump into and out of freely, without a large commitment of time or mental resources.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs far as I know, people like video games,\u201d says Kelt. \u201cI certainly do. It seemed like a fit.\u201d<\/p>\n

The CCSS has two students organizing the Video Games Club events; they schedule everything and pick what they\u2019re going to do and where it\u2019s going to happen, says Kelt. The club currently runs at both campuses and gets together on Monday afternoons at Interurban and Friday afternoons at Lansdowne. (Locations vary and are posted on the CCSS website.)<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s been pretty tough to find space,\u201d says CCSS student services coordinator Michael Glover, who was the one who originally came up with the idea for this club. \u201cThat\u2019s been the biggest challenge, but doing it out in the open means that students have been able to drop in.\u201d<\/p>\n

Glover says that the club is part of the CCSS\u2019 efforts to create social activities on campus for students.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s something that people can do that gives them a little bit of a study break,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

A previous version of this story identified CCSS student services coordinator Michael Glover as CCSS\u00a0website manager and secretary Michael Subasic. We apologize for the mistake.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Camosun Video Games Club creates opportunities for students to unwind, meet, and greet over the great equalizer: video games. The club\u2019s activities, which include getting together to play on consoles like the Nintendo 64 and Game Boy, are low-key and relaxing\u2014not to mention entertaining. \u201cLots of people might want to play soccer, or they […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14907,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,201],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus","category-november-1-2017"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14906"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14958,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14906\/revisions\/14958"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}