<\/a>Eric Moots and Jacob Babb carefully strategize over a game of SHŌBU on Saturday at the Douglas Public Library as part of Platypus Gaming’s two-day mini-convention. (Jonson Kuhn \/ Juneau Empire)<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
Josh Warren, a lifelong Juneau resident and president of Platypus Gaming, said he started the organization nearly nine years ago as a way of bringing similar gaming convention experiences he had found in the lower 48 to Juneau.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t
“I knew it was not terribly affordable for everyone to go to them down south, so I wanted to provide some more local experiences and sort of mirrored it here in Juneau,” Warren said. “We try to have our convention every year, COVID did push us out of one of them.”<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t
Warren said Platypus Gaming typically holds its convention, which is its biggest event, every year in late January, however, due to the renovations at the group’s usual venue at Centennial Hall, Platypus Gaming will be hosting this year’s convention Sept. 8-10. More information about the September convention or upcoming library events can be found at facebook.com\/PlatypusBoardGaming<\/a> or at the group’s website at platypusgaming.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t Additionally, Warren said he tries to stay on a quarterly schedule with smaller gaming events at the Juneau Public Libraries to give people more options and a slightly less intense version of the conventions.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t “Normally, in January we start at 6 p.m. and go until 2 a.m. and then similar schedules the next few days, so it’s a lot more time,” Warren said. “This weekend would be our normal weekend every year and so we wanted to mark it in some way, so we decided to have our library game days on the whole weekend.”<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t