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Travel the world taking photographs of amazing animals to gain fame and be crowned the Wildlife Photographer of the Year in this set collection race for 1-5 players!
In Photographic World, you are racing to gain the most fame points before all the Best in Class certificates are claimed. These certificates are awarded to the first player to collect a set of 3 unique photos in the indicated class (mammals, birds, etc.) and are worth 7 fame points. Increase your set to 5 unique animals in that class to upgrade your certificate, making it worth more.
Additionally, each unique photograph you take increases your fame, as does becoming a world traveler and fulfilling commissions. You can also specialize in one or more continents to increase the value of the photos you take there.
On your turn you will assign an assistant to 1 of 3 actions (photograph, travel, or market). Alternatively, you can choose to take a rest action and return all your assistants to your supply.
Every photographer starts out with very basic equipment, training, and connections. This limits how much each action can do. Players will be working to upgrade these throughout the course of the game, making every action they take more efficient and powerful.
Will you become the Wildlife Photographer of the Year?
- The artwork is really nice and colorful.
- It's a pretty quick solo mode.
- It's pretty easy to pick up.
- I kind of wish there were some scenarios or other kind of challenges to change the difficulty level.
- Traveling the world and taking photographs of animals
- The world
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- action selection — Dice rolling tells you what you can do, such as moving, picking up an animal, picking up an assistant, or traveling to a specific spot.
- Dice Rolling — You'll be rolling some dice which are going to tell you what you can do.
- Movement — Moving to an adjacent space on the board.
- Resource Management — You have a limited amount of time to do this and you'll be cycling them, discarding one card at the end of every turn.
- Set Collection — Trying to get three of each different type of animals, like mammals and birds and fish.
Video topics + discussion points
Quotes (from this video)
- Hello I am Jessica and I am here today to talk about a preview of photographic World Ed covered the multiplayer and I am here to talk about the solo mode and how that plays.
- So I should first note that everything here is a prototype component so is subject to change all that fun stuff just to get that out of there up front.
References (from this video)
- It works as a game.
- Simple action selection with dynamic choices.
- Felt like chasing different things.
- Great art and animals.
- Streamlined once you figure out how to play.
- Plays very quickly around the table.
- Great family game.
- Could use a little more information about the animals.
- Action selection compass needs a little work.
- Rule book needs a little work.
- Being photographers and taking pictures of animals
- Traveling the world
- Trekking the USA
- Pandemic
- Ticket to Ride
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- action selection — The dynamics of play come from competing for different action spots that allow players to move and take pictures.
- market — There is an option to go to the market to buy photos from other players.
- Route Building — Players travel around the world to different locations to take pictures.
- Set Collection — Commission cards give bonus points for specific animals to take photos of.
- Worker Placement — Players use meeples as action tokens to perform actions on the board.
Video topics + discussion points
Quotes (from this video)
- it is live on uh Kickstarter now
- this is a uh Gateway game that's a little bit of a cross between like trekken the USA and pandemic
- the Dynamics of play here really come from the action selection
- if they do what they get is not money but they get two extra meeples for actions to play which is super cool
- I felt uh it it just works it's in that it's in that trekking USA again uh whether it's Ticket to Ride Panda uh pandemic where it's like it's action selection it's simple there's some Dynamic choices and you feel like you're chasing different things it works and the art uh and animals is great
- I do think the action selection Compass here needs a little work and the rule book needs a little work
- the game itself once you figure out and understand how to play is is pretty streamlined and going going around the table very quickly as folks travel around
- I think it's it's a great uh family game uh and this is photographic world