A Brief Introduction and History...
So some of you who've been around for a while might remember OI Plays, which was a short lived but well received weekly community event, where members of the community got together in #orangeislands and Skype to play a Pokemon game together. It ended up falling through due to Deinosaur, who was running it, getting too busy. Later it was briefly revived for a single session before yet again falling through due to the leadership getting busy.
Well, I have a bit of a history of hosting regular events here in the Orange Islands, and I love hanging out in Google+ Hangouts (which are better suited to this than Skype ever was). So I think it's time we brought back OI Plays, and hopefully this time it can stick around for good! There'll be a few tweaks to the format to make it open to more people, but I think I should be able to keep the spirit of the original event intact.
What it is and how it works
Basically, every Sunday at 2pm EST we get together in a Google+ hangout and play games (mostly Pokemon games) together until everyone has to go. If you don't know, Google+ hangouts work kind of like a group Skype call, only it has easier screensharing and doesn't require a big download and signup. Every week I'll have a certain suggested challenge for people to tackle; this challenge is replaced with a new one every few weeks. You don't have to play my challenge if you really don't want to though; there's always a few people just doing their own thing, myself included sometimes . The main idea of this is just to get everyone together for a bit of community bonding! In order to join the the Google+ hangout you should just join in the #oi IRC channel and watch for myself or others to post a link to the hangout room. You just click on that link and if you have a Google+ account, all you need to do is quickly download the hangout plugin if you haven't already and click to join. Alternatively you can follow my twitter account, since I'll usually tweet out when hangouts have started. Everyone is free to join in; don't worry, we won't bite!
Next Hangout details
See this post for details: http://www.smogon.com/forums/threads/orange-islands-plays-the-rebirth.3511760/page-3#post-5868049
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