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Schlock! is a resource and word game, in which players assume the role of a B-movie producers during the golden age of Hollywood. In the game, players race to create outrageous films and release them to hungry audiences.
At the beginning of each round, players will bid cash for turn order. Then, in turn order, players buy word and picture tiles and dice agents from the Backlot planning board, to build their movie titles and accumulate dice agents to raise cash and unlock cards.
During the Development phase, players spend their cash to promote their upcoming movie and attract an Audience, as well as spend their dice agents to trigger powerful card effects.
Finally, in the Entertain phase, players release their completed movies to theatres, scoring Fame and Cash for the size of their movie, their matching Genre icons (Horror, Syfy and Western) and their audience attendance.
When a player releases their third movie, the end of the game is triggered. Players complete their remaining movies and the player with the most Fame wins.
—description from the publisher
- pretty neat
- looks cool
- running a movie theater
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- poster creation — Players create movie posters to attract customers to their theater.
Video topics + discussion points
Quotes (from this video)
- It's called Schllock. It's pretty good.
- I love Habitats.
- You're making a you have a movie theater and you're making like Bem movie posters to draw people into your theater and uh Yeah. It's pretty neat.
- It's like a poker game where you're trying to predict who wins the wins the hand.
- I had for our quiz today, I had I even showed the three frigin stripes. I'm like, that was way too easy.
- The scammers have figured out a way around my anti-scammers work.
- It's like an arms race.
- It's like, you know, like you you know what you want. You have expressed it. But but when it was like the the fourth and fifth time that he brought it up in the thing trying to get people to to ban behind him that that was that was the you know I I I understood shooting his shot, you know, saying saying what he wanted out of his out of his board game so he could have a really awkward game night.
- It's like, Oh, I want to play X. Well, I've got X. I can bring it. And so, it has matches.
- The thing I couldn't figure out was I finally got it to figure out how to go to the geek and like if your game is like, 'What the hell is this game?' You can click on it, it'll go to the geek, it'll do a search for Ghost Tower.