The Game Makers

Players inherit a factory and convert it into a board game manufacturing operation, hiring staff, expanding assembly lines, and investing in factory upgrades. Each turn players select components from a central warehouse rondel and decide how to allocate multi-use pieces—stockpiling plastic, workers, dice, punchboard, and cards to meet the requirements of real-world game contracts. Components can be added to the factory to unlock abilities, workers can be deployed to produce parts or activate specials, and dice are rolled to boost marketing for endgame scoring. When a player assembles the required resources for a contract they add that game to their display case and score points from produced titles and marketing performance.

Players: 1–6 best 3
Playing time: 60–90 min
Age: 15+
Complexity: 2.9 / 5

7.2 on LudoyaEconomicIndustry / ManufacturingWorker PlacementRondelContracts

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About the game

Design: Ben Rosset
Art: Bima Kusuma
Zane Huss

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3
Plays logged: 3
Players: 7
On wishlists: 2
Pre-ordered

7.2/10

from 5 Ludoya reviews

Fun10.0
Interaction8.0
Replayability10.0
Uniqueness10.0
Looks10.0
Accessibility10.0

Balleflass3.0
Not for me. One of (if not) the most multiplayer solitare game I have ever played. Extremely overproduced with a ton of plastic for a game that even has big environmental gameplay element of "Go Green". I understand that the game draws a lot of attention because it has a bunch of cards with cover art from known games, good production and simultaneous turns though.
Merguer9.7
Muy entretenido. Aunque no ganes se disfruta bastante intentando conseguir bonificaciones y llenar tu estantería. La puntuación final resulta una sorpresa al no ponerte a contar lo que llevan los otros jugadores. Muy original la ruleta de jugar turno. Me ha gustado mucho 😻