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In the tile-laying game Sunrise City, players build a city with zone tiles, bid for control of those zones, then place building tiles on the city zones to their best advantage. Each round the players use role cards to grant them special abilities in the various game phases. Points earned during play move score tokens up a ten point track. Players score one benchmark token if their score marker overshoots the star at the top of their score track but earn two benchmarks if their token lands on the star by exact count.
Thus, Sunrise City is not a race to score the most points; it's a contest to grow the city in a manner that will earn you the right number of points at the right time to maximize your benchmarks. After three rounds, the player with the most benchmarks wins.
- Generator feature allows user-created maps
- Light, approachable play style
- Full rules and maps may rely on external files
- City-building, sunshine-themed mechanics
- Resource management themed map-building
- Open-ended, generator-based content
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Resource Management — Map and resource generation with a generator tool
Video topics + discussion points
Quotes (from this video)
- I am a huge fan of Roland rights
- these print and plays that I'll be showing you today are all like roll and write print in place
- lamination for your print in place is like the best thing ever because you only have to print out one of that specific sheet and you can use it over and over again
- I am so excited to dive into all of these and just have them here in this book
- these are three dollars you get three different rolling rights for three dollars which is fantastic
- I will say I do have all the rules on my computer so I will just open that file on my computer
References (from this video)
- eco-friendly delivery via print-at-home
- community-generated content fosters engagement
- digital generator could add a learning curve
- print-at-home rolling-right / flip-and-write with map generation
- city-building in a modular, printable world
- community-driven map creation and scenario expansion
- Voyages
- Aquamarine
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- infinite generator — software that allows user-generated maps to be produced
- roll-and-write with maps — players generate districts and districts-based scoring
Video topics + discussion points
Quotes (from this video)
- it's like the super bowl
- christmas in august for a lot of gamers
- the rolling right experience they've distilled from Twilight Imperium
- the generator is amazing
- you can print at home and play as much as you want