The Bridges of Shangri-La

Mechanics (from transcript analysis)

• abstract strategy — A pure strategy game with no luck and perfect information.
• Area Control — Players aim to have the most masters on the board by the end of the game.
• Bridge building/removal — Bridges are placed to connect islands and are removed from the game after use, limiting future connections.
• Movement — Masters and students move between islands via bridges.

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Quotes (from this video)

• this is a paid preview for the Play for Keeps crowdfunding campaign where they are remaking four classic games.
• This is a super mean game, and it reminds me a lot of uh the king is dead, kind of that idea of I don't own any of these, but I'm kind of invested in a bunch of them, but with a really simplified, really smooth rule set.
• So, this is a super mean game, and it plays actually quite a bit different.
• This is just going to feel very different each game because of like the tiles and how that whole map builds out.
• Bridges of Shangri-La, I would say, is the most.
• This really feels like a classic game.
• If you told me that this is a game that has existed for like 300 years, I would believe you.
• So, I think the big thing here is that there are very few rules. There's no luck and you have perfect information.

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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)

• domain/enclosure via walls — Players place walls to enclose domains (areas with a single castle).
• economic/market value and oracles — Cities have market value; oracles point to cities; end-game scoring based on market dominance.
• multi-turn planning with knights and expansion — Knights allow expansion into other domains; interactions include blocking and domain contest.

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Quotes (from this video)

• the rules are super simple
• it's a mean game
• a dynamic economy where everything that you do will ripple out and have positive or negative effects on everybody else
• it's a 60-minute game
• I wrote the rule book
• this is an incredible design and it deserves a reprint

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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)

• Area Control — An area control game where you are going across crumbling bridges.
• map manipulation — Cutting off pieces of the map.

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Quotes (from this video)

• Yeah, my man [laughter] loves paths.
• You're going to be going across crumbling bridges, but beware each bridge crossed will collapse behind you, changing the landscape.
• They're going smaller. We're going to be able to fit all these on your shelf, yeah.
• Now, this one before you get to what it's about, I had it myself a shame for a while only because the components were so nice, right?
• Beautiful editions of those games, right? Now, this looks very nice to me.
• Our focus has been in ensuring that it's the definitive version, including a visual over overhaul.
• When you compare against any of those three Super Meeple games, those are stellar productions.
• It's more portable. It's a little easier to bring to the table cuz you need less footprint, you know, things like that.
• Now, that I'm I'm intrigued by making this game a little bit shorter.
• It could be very mean like uh all of these games kind of could be.
• I do worry that they're kickstarting or crowdfunding, I don't know how uh all of these at once in the same project.
• Roll and write, flip and write.
• Smack and write.

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