Canvas Critters

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• one of the best parts about board game conventions is you get to see games that aren't out yet
• I'm excited to play more in canvas Critters
• you draft little animal meeples and use them to create mosaics based on a theme
• birthday cake landmarks is a word game where you are trying to direct an expedition across the map by giving clever word clues
• play as researchers who have to hire crew clean the ocean and work to restore and save Coral Reef
• in dicey devices you play as a mad scientist it's an engine building game where you use your laboratory robots and assistant eigor to build a death ray
• Cafe Baris is a card drafting Tableau building game about Kappy bars running coffee shops
• Nuna attack is really cool

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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)

• Guessing Game — Players guess what object another person is trying to make.
• Pattern Building — Players use the drafted tiles to create pictures.
• tile drafting — Players draft animal shape tiles.

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• We are going to get another copy so we can experience some of the other parts of it that we couldn't finish.
• I didn't think I was going to like this game. I really didn't.
• It's a game of chance. If cheese is needed in two of your dishes and cheese never comes up, you never get that bonus for the perfect plate, which is kind of irritating and aggravating, but it's a game of chance.
• Easy keep that one. It's one of our favorites.
• This one's hard.
• It plays better with more than two people because you don't have that dummy character that's just blocking stuff.
• It's one play like the cafe might be a maybe for me.

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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)

• Card Drafting — Players choose a theme card at the start of a round.
• End-to-end — The first player to finish their art triggers a timer for others.
• Push Your Luck — Players must decide how much time to spend on their art before the timer runs out.
• Set Collection — Players collect critter tokens to place on their canvas.
• Voting — Players vote on each other's art using ribbons.

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• It's not being creative. It's being a ding-dong.
• Canvas Critters is published by Third World Studios who very kindly sponsored today's video.
• I really wish I had taken more time, cuz mine sucks.
• This is systemic hate towards me.
• I'm genuinely concerned about Jamie's safety and I'm not close enough to get there quickly.

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