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Rob Cramer

@robcramer.bsky.social

Board game designer (The Grand Carnival, Turbo Drift, Zebra) in SLC, UT. (he/him)

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Rob Cramer@robcramer.bsky.social · last wk.

Small Islands is the Game of the Week! Each island has its own quirks, but you gotta spread out to make the most of them. Make many little islands, or crank one up shine above the others. It looks great, but I need to play it more to get a feel for what it offers.

A collage of images of the game Small Islands, designed by Alexis Allard and illustrated by Aurélie Guarino: a single red home on a peninsula; a purple home on an island; a sticky note doodle of the title "Small Islands" as little islands in the ocean, surrounded by other islands and a flying bird; the box of the game showing a bird flying over a bunch of islands; a single red home on a tiny island
Rob Cramer@robcramer.bsky.social · last wk.

So my work has AwardCo, basically meaning I have 200 virtual bucks that can't earn interest because I can't just turn it into straight cash. So I want to spend it on something sooner rather than later. What would you do with 200 bucks right now?

Rob Cramer@robcramer.bsky.social · 2w ago

Ratzia is the Game of the Week! This cheese spends like money in the dank underground world of the Rat Mafia. Can you get what you need before the cops bust up the party?

A collage of images of the game Ratzia, designed by Reiner Knizia and illustrated by Sarah "Freedz" Conlon: a sticky note doodle of a wedge of cheese on a vaporwave background; a bid card and the "Cheese Gratest" marker, a golden box grater; some police cards featuring two policemice; a mouse getaway driver fleeing in a pink sports car with a bag of money flying out the side window; the scoreboard showing markers with different 80s icons (Polaroid camera, cassette, shutter shades); the box showing police busting up a mafia hideout
Rob Cramer@robcramer.bsky.social · 3w ago

Fliptown is the Game of the Week! To mark my finishing of Blood Meridian or the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy, I'm playing a game that has less blood, depravity, and piss & sulphur black powder. But it is as cute as a button, boy howdy!

A collage of images of the game Fliptown, designed by Steve Armani and illustrated by Naomi Ferrall: two playing cards lie above a player board; the Badlands area of the board with different robbery targets circled; a bot cowgirl and a player power card; a sticky note doodle showing a desert scattered with cards, desert plants, and animals; the western town with different buildings marked.
Rob Cramer@robcramer.bsky.social · 4w ago

Finally feeling better after throwing up so much yesterday. AND I just finished reading Blood Meridian. It's like I've been wrung out physically, mentally, and emotionally all at once.

Rob Cramer@robcramer.bsky.social · last mo.

Ubungo is the Game of the Week! Race to solve your own polyomino puzzle! That's it! You aren't solving the same puzzle, so the race aspect is kinda weird. Not my favorite, but I liked making this week's sticky note!

A collage of images of the board game Ubungo, designed by Grzegorz Rejchtman: the box for the game showing many polyomino pieces floating into an arrangement in the center; a solved player puzzle made out of 4 different polyomino pieces; the die which is rolled to determine which puzzle players are solving; a different solved player board; a sticky note collage with wrinkled polyomino pieces glued onto it.
Rob Cramer@robcramer.bsky.social · last mo.

Yura Yura Penguin Mini is the Game of the Week! It's heating up in Utah with multiple wildfires, so I'm cooling down by building a home for these adorable penguins...whose ecosystem is collapsing due to climate change...huh. It's almost like "politics" are inextricable from the world we live in!

A collage of images of the game Yura Yura Penguin Mini designed by Ryoko Yabuchi: the box cover with blue and white ice rock pieces scattered in front; a penguin chick laying down on a piece of ice; a tower of icebergs and cards surrounded by facedown cards that look like ocean; a sticky note doodle of the box cover showing a stack of cards, ice, and penguins collapsing; a selection of cards used to stack on the iceberg
Rob Cramer@robcramer.bsky.social · 2mo ago

WHOZIT? is the Game of the Week! Is Godzilla more likely to go to the spa frequently than the youngest player in the room? Can Abraham Lincoln assemble IKEA furniture? Both very relevant and normal questions!

An array of pictures of the game Whozit? designed by Romaric Calonnier: orange Cards reading "Count Dracula" "youngest player in the room" "farmer" "Godzilla" "Abraham Lincoln" and "archaeologist" each assigned a different number between 1 and 6; a scale where players can rank characteristics from "definitely" to "definitely not"; a sticky note doodle like the box; a red pawn on a score board; the box for Whozit? showing silhouettes of people's side profiles among bars of colors.
Rob Cramer@robcramer.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The Choice is the Game of the Week! Quite the name for a pretty unassuming roll 'n' write where you roll dice and use them as colors OR numbers. Such agonizing choices! My heart cannot handle it! AAAAAAAAAAAAA

A collage of images of the game The Choice, designed by Reinhard Staupe: the player sheet which has a grid of hexes filled with numbers surrounded by a belt of colored hexes. Some color hexes are crossed out, and the number hexes have a path traced through them; the box that tells players, "You have the choice!"; a tricolor sticky note doodle mimicking the box; three dice with numbers 1-6 and 6 different colors on them
Rob Cramer@robcramer.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Wallamoppi is the Game of the Week! Think Jenga isn't stressful enough? How about if you have a marble clanking down some ramps while you stack and you have to catch the marble before it falls into a pit? That's Wallamoppi, baby!

A collage of images of the game Wallamoppi, original concept and prototype by Garrett J. Donner and Michael S. Steer: a stack of dark and light wood disks that start as a narrowing wall at the bottom, but then are topped by a tower of alternating discs; a wooden box that has a marble track in the inside, a black marble is pictured running down the end of the track; a sticky note doodle of two long neck birds stacking discs on top of each other.
Rob Cramer@robcramer.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Polyominoes til I die. Probably from getting run over by a car getting this picture taken, but at least there's a crosswalk here now! Incredibly grateful for the Love Your Block program for helping us make this happen.

Two people and a dog walk across a newly painted crosswalk that has two white lines hugging a 4x15 grid of pentominos in greens, blues, and yellows.Me (mustache) and my wife (total hottie) laying down on the finished crosswalk.
Rob Cramer@robcramer.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Cascadito is the Game of the Week! I really enjoyed Cascadero, so seeing it reimplemented in a dice game is definitely right up my alley. But can it create enough contrast to stand out? I'm excited to find out!

A collage of images of the game Cascadito, designed by Reiner Knizia, illustrated by Ian O'Toole: 6 black dice with different icons representing mining, manufacturing, agriculture, trading, and education; a doodle on a sticky note showing a castle on a hill; the box cover showing a bugeler bugeling; the player sheet showing a kingdom made up of hexagons.
Rob Cramer@robcramer.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Fairy Trails is the Game of the Week! Two players carve secret paths through the forest, each trying to find homes for their gnome and fairy families. Uwe Rosenberg goes small!

A collage of images of Fairy Trails, designed by Uwe Rosenberg and illustrated by Nicolas Demers: a forest made out of cards with neon green and purple stone paths running through it. Green and purple plastic pieces mark some spaces; a doodle on a blue sticky note of the title and two intertwining paths; the box art showing a fairy and gnome walking in front of a forest home; a top down view of the forest cards showing homes that will have pieces placed on top of them when the paths are completed.