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Roll Camera was played on Australian TV with some actual Aussie filmmakers! Very fun ⭐️🇦🇺
Liam has invited three Melbourne based filmmakers to play the cooperative film making board game, 'Roll Camera". Joining Liam are producers Lauren Simpson an...
I'm doing art for Scene cards for the upcoming Spy Thriller Story Pack for Roll Camera! You're allowed to watch.
let’s gooooo!! ⚡️⚡️⚡️
Come hang out while I do some artwork for Power Vacuum!
Power Vacuum is a LIVE WIRE on Kickstarter! ⚡️🔌⚡️🔌⚡️🔌⚡️!! Back it now: https://kck.st/3vIiEFs
Oh man! We got Cole Wehrle (designer of ROOT) to play Power Vacuum, and he said it's "a great example of what modern trick-takers have to offer ... stays simple while consistently offering players novel problems and opportunities to outfox one another." ⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️
He's one of our favorite designers so needless to say, this was so awesome.
We launch TOMORROW!! Kickstarter link: https://kck.st/3vIiEFs
Get ready! Our new game POWER VACUUM launches on Tuesday!! ⚡️⚡️⚡️ Follow it here: https://kck.st/3vIiEFs
Some pics from the shoot for the Power Vacuum Kickstarter video! Nailed the Cold War spy aesthetic I think. It helps that we were in Berlin! 🔌🕵🏻♂️ ⚡️
Ben from Five Games for Doomsday is already excited! ⚡️⚡️⚡️
Ben looks at the games he's tingling for in 2024.Five Games for Doomsday Podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/show/five-games-for-doomsdayThumbnails by the ever...
Happy New Year from Keen Bean Studio to you! 🥂 🥳 ⭐️
Merry Xmas! I hope you catch Santa in the act, the ol’ home invader 🎅👀
Happy Thanksgiving, Keen Beans! Enjoy your food and family ❤️
Some cool insights here into the development process of the two most recent Roll Camera! Story Packs
Happy Halloween, filmmakers! 🎥 🎃 😎 👻 🎬
Power Vacuum will be my next release: it's a competitive trick-taking game where you play as anthropomorphic household appliances jostling for Absolute Power after the passing of the Great Leader - who, obviously, was a vacuum cleaner (all hail his bristlyness - but what a windbag, am I right??)
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Designed by Kaleb Wentzel-Fisher and illustrated by me, Malachi Ray Rempen!
If you’re at Essen, come play POWER VACUUM, a new game coming soon! We’re at 5G124
Some early character art for POWER VACUUM, the Treasonous Trick-Taking Game from designer Kaleb Wentzel-Fisher, which just jumped up my production queue. Come demo it at Essen next month! Booth 5G124
Representing KBS at Ravensburg Spielt today! Spot the bean person
Played a prototype of Power Vacuum (one of my upcoming releases!) with the designer in an Austrian mountain hut this weekend along with a whole stack of other games! It was a blast. My bag was so full of board games I forgot my towel. Travel crime, I know!
We won Best Expansion! 🤩🤩🤩 Presented by Luke (son of Gary) Gygax, as nice as he is muscly. Congrats to all the nominees and winners!!
𝗥𝗼𝗹𝗹 𝗖𝗮𝗺𝗲𝗿𝗮!: 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗕-𝗠𝗼𝘃𝗶𝗲 𝗘𝘅𝗽𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 (Keen Bean Studio)
We originally featured Keen Bean Studio's Roll Camera! on Board's Eye View back in 2020. You can check out our review at https://www.boardseyeview.net/post/roll-camera. Roll Camera! is a worker/dice-placement co-operative game that gets regular re-runs at Board's Eye View, helped by its smooth gameplay and humorous touches. This B-Movie Expansion builds on the base game by introducing some extra elements that help to keep it fresh.
As you might expect, there's more of all the core elements of the base game: additional Problem, Idea and Production Company cards to throw into the mix. There are six new player boards representing more of the personnel involved in putting together a movie, and each player board has three unique dice placement abilities. Two tiles (or stickers for those who prefer to affix them to the board) give us two more actions that can be taken with your dice placement, and the expansion introduces single-use Equipment cards to help film-makers. However, the key change that designer Malachi Rempen and John Velgus give us with this B-Movie Expansion is the addition of Genre tokens. There's a new middle script card that incorporates the requirement in your movie for a specific mix of Genre tokens. The expansion also comes with a thick wadge of new Scene cards and these indicate up to two Genre tokens. Players therefore have the added challenge of selecting and manipulating their Scene cards so that their completed movie fully satisfies the Genre requirements of the script...
As with the base game, players have to complete their movie within budget and the constraints of time, and to win you still need to ensure that your finished product avoids movie mediocrity. In our plays of the game with the B-Movie Expansion fully integrated we found the extra Genre requirements added to the fun but didn't necessarily make the game harder, but perhaps that's because we were relatively experienced players. In any event, one of the key features of Roll Camera! is its facility for making the difficulty level fully customisable, so if you do find the expansion raises the difficulty, you can readily adjust the game by increasing your budget and/or extending your schedule.
If you've enjoyed playing Roll Camera! then you'll certainly want to add this B-Movie Expansion. You'll love the way the expansion builds on the humour inherent in the core game: the B-Movie Expansion even comes with a sheet of cutout props that serve absolutely no gameplay purpose but are intended just to enliven your storyboards! If you've not yet discovered the original and you're looking for a sociable cooperative game, then you should definitely check out Roll Camera! and be sure to nab a copy of the expansion at the same time. Our only gripe is with the expansion's title because 'B-Movie' has a distinctly pejorative connotation. We'd have preferred to have called this a Genre Movie Expansion. And these days, aren't all movies Genre movies?
Hey filmmakers - I'm playing Roll Camera live over at the Silver Medal Tavern, come by and join us! 🎥 🎥 🎥 🎥
Sorta Good at Board Games 🥈 | Editor on TV shows 🖖 | Video Gamer 🎮 | Just a Happy Chill Guy 😉
Quite pleased with how this scene art turned out! For the upcoming Roll Camera: Murder Mystery story pack
Roll Camera! was named 3 Minute Board games' #1 Game of the Year 2022!! 🥹 🥂 🤩 ⭐️ 🥳 🎥 😳 ⚡️
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The French version of Roll Camera is debuting at Cannes! How cool is that?? 🥂 😎 🎥
Ready to start my busy day of game design and drawing bean people with a cuppa from my new office mug ☕️ (yes you can also get one, at my store 🎥)
Box art for my new game!! ⚡️🌏🔥 Watch this space 🙌
In case you don’t follow my web comic Itchy Feet, please consider it! I’m with Tinyview for a good reason ❤️ 👉👉 https://tinyview.com/tinyview/subscribe
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Shout out to my brother Erik (Kainga - Game) on the big launch of his game!! It's been such a long road and it's such a weird cool game, go check it out!
Welcome to the mystical world of Kainga, a unique roguelite village-builder. Discover the lands full of wonder and beauty, where strange beasts roam, and other tribes fight for resources. Take control of a Thinker and, with the help of your people, grow your village into a thriving civilization.
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I'm doing art for Scene cards for the upcoming Spy Thriller Story Pack for Roll Camera! You're allowed to watch.
Come hang out while I do some artwork for Power Vacuum!
Stumbled upon this little test animation I did last year
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