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An Experiment: Gaming Spaces Flickr Group

Thu. April 26, 2007 

Yesterday, two ideas that had been floating around for awhile finally banged together in my head: Why not create a public photo group where gamers all over the world can share photos of the places where they game?

So I did. It’s called Gaming Spaces, and it’s a photo group on Flickr, a nifty (and free) photo-sharing site.

We’ve talked about gaming spaces on TT before, in VV_GM’s guest post Setting Up Your Game Space and in the forum thread on proxemics and gaming environments. It was the collision with Avlor’s Flickr group suggestion for GM’s Day that made me decide to give this a shot.

It’s pretty sparse right now, but I’m hoping that will change. I don’t know about you, but I love seeing how other GMs set up their gaming spaces — it gives me all sorts of ideas for how to improve my own little slice of heaven.

If that grabs you, I hope you’ll join the group and post some photos of your own!

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7 Responses to “An Experiment: Gaming Spaces Flickr Group”

  1. VV_GM on April 26th, 2007 6:46 am

    Great idea! One of these weekends I’ll have to take a few pics and post them to the site.

  2. Gospog on April 27th, 2007 8:06 am

    Ok, I created an account and uploaded my pics:

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/8001646@N02/

    But of course I want my pics to show up in the Gaming Spaces Pool.

    The FAQ says that there should be a “Send to pool” button under my pics. I don’t see one. Anyone have any ideas? I have never used Flickr before.

    -Tom

  3. Martin on April 27th, 2007 9:06 am

    I’m a Flickr noob as well. I found the “send to pool” link just above each of my pictures — click on one of your photos and check the line of stuff right above it. I believe “add note” is the first link.

    There’s probably a batch option, too, if you have a lot of pictures.

  4. Gospog on April 27th, 2007 9:30 am

    Ah, thanks! I was looking for that option from the Your Pictures page instead of opening each picture in turn.

    I did it and it worked and go check it out! :)

    -Tom

  5. Martin on April 27th, 2007 11:48 am

    Rock! Thanks, Tom!

    I felt like a heel doing it, but I had to remove your wargame room photos from the pool. At least to start with, I’m limiting the pool to tabletop RPG photos only to give the group a nice tight focus. (It’s one of the group’s only rules at present.)

  6. DM Setup Photos | D&D Nerd.com on May 1st, 2007 8:24 pm

    [...] Martin Ralya over at Treasure Tables made a post a few days ago about DMs sharing photos of their gaming places. As such, he’s created a photo pool over on Flickr specifically for gaming spaces. So not only can we see how other people do things, we can learn and use some of the methods ourselves. [...]

  7. Martin on May 8th, 2007 9:26 am

    We’re up to 33 members and 48 photos in the pool — not a bad start, and it’s great to see all of the different gaming spaces that folks have shared so far.