Cartographers and Popular Roll & Writes (ft. Jay Cormier)
Today we discuss bevy of Roll & Writes with Jay Cormier founder of Off The Page Games and designer of games like Akrotiri, In the Hall of the Mountain King, Junk Art and many more! Roll/Flip & Write as a genre are (usually) small and portable games that involve players interacting with some sort of randomizer (e.g. cards, dice, ect.) and marking the results on sheets of paper or erasable boards. Another common factor is that marking choices made in previous plays limit a player's marking choices in future plays. In the episode we talk about all things surrounding Roll & Writes, but we focus specifically on That’s So Clever, Patchwork Doodle, Cartographers, Welcome To and Rajas of the Ganges: The Dice Charmers. We cap the episode off by breaking down the history of the genre and what innovations influenced its modern day implementation.
Learn more about Jay Cormier and Off the Page Games here.
Learn more about The Pitch Project here.
Learn more about the games here: That’s So Clever, Patchwork Doodle, Cartographers, Welcome To, and Rajas of the Ganges: The Dice Charmers.
Should we play it again? Bring it to the channel? Never touch it again? Let us know in the comments!
-Time Stamps-
8:26 - What is a Roll/Flip & Write?
12:11 - Overviews
25:36 - That’s So Clever
28:04 - Jay’s First Impressions
28:53 - Jesse’s First Impressions
30:09 - Jan’s First Impressions
33:50 - Patchwork Doodle
34:09 - Jay’s First Impressions
35:33 - Jesse’s First Impressions
38:25 - Jan’s First Impressions
39:52 - Cartographers
40:52 - Jesse’s Thoughts
41:12 - Can Cartographers be an introductory game into the hobby?
42:51 - Jay’s First Impressions
45:33 - Jan’s First Impressions
47:31 - Welcome To
47:50 - Jay’s First Impressions
50:39 - Jesse’s First Impressions
52:29 - Rajas of the Ganges: The Dice Charmers
55:05 - Jay’s Thoughts Around Design in the Dice Charmers
59:16 - Jesse’s First Impressions
1:00:06 - Jay’s First Impressions
1:00:38 - Jan’s First Impressions
1:01:51 - Should Roll/Flip & Write based around existing games be reinterpretations or completely new titles?
1:05:38 - Is there space for heavy (weight complexity) Roll/Flip & Write?
1:12:17 - Brief History of Roll/Flip & Writes
1:20:16 - Off the Page Games