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The Producer

Hollywood’s Golden Age

Hollywood from 1940 to 1944 – you have inherited money and some land at the outskirts of Los Angeles – can you turn the shed on it into an important film studio? You try to win with most points; points com from awards for actors and film directing, from developing the studio and the variety of film genres produced. You play three or five rounds for three years, and six event cards per year for intervention by outside professionals or historic events. Production of a film gives you money for actors and scripts, the award ceremony at the end of the year gives you points.

There is a board for each player and also a central board; in the first stage of a round you draft script cards and hire actors, directors or actors/directors; in the Maintenance phase you reset boards, pay maintenance cost and assign event cards. In the Operational Stage you play an event card and use your seven producers by placing them on the central board – casting, party, bank, radio station, motel and café – and then on your own board for construction site, film production or laying off characters.

The Oscars Award ceremony gives awards for films. After the ceremony for 1942 or 1944 in the advanced game you score complete construction and film genres plus other factors according to optional rules.

A short overview over a massive game of many components, long rules and long duration; you need to spend a lot of time to comprehend the rules and that massively damages fun in playing the game, despite the nicely implemented topic and the lovingly incorporated details on actors and in scripts.

Players: 2-4

Age: 14+

Time: 180+

Designer: Manlio Zaninotti

Artist: Maurizio Faleschini

Price: ca. 60 Euro

Publisher: ApokalypseInc 2015

Web: www.apokalypseinc.com

Genre: Worker placement

Users: For experts

Version: en

Rules: en it

In-game text: yes

Comments:

Long rules, difficult to understand

Best with four players

Painstaking details on the theme

Game mechanisms could be improved

Compares to:

Traumfabrik for topic

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 2

Tactic (turquoise): 2

Strategy (blue): 1

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 2

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0