{"id":7639,"date":"2022-03-14T08:37:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-14T12:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/?p=7639"},"modified":"2022-07-01T16:29:55","modified_gmt":"2022-07-01T20:29:55","slug":"cartographers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/2022\/03\/cartographers\/","title":{"rendered":"Cartographers"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Hopefully the recommendation is not that useful for much longer, but Cartographers<\/em><\/a> is a great boardgame that also works well for remote play.<\/p>\n

It’s mechanically simple and fun (you draw stuff!), with only a very small amount of direct player-on-player conflict, so it’s accessible to more casual and non-gamer friends. But it has a lot of planning, rough probability estimations, etc. for players that want to get more serious.<\/p>\n

Everybody does their turn simultaneously so it can scale up to a large number of players—the game’s officially listed for 1 to 99 players… I’d say up to eight players remote over a telecon or such is very feasible, more in face-to-face.<\/p>\n

There are some virtual implementations around, but you can easily play over a telecon with a single copy of the box and sending a PDF of the map board (there’s an official one and others) to everybody to print out for themselves. I’ve played remotely in a couple different fashions and the latter was actually easier than the virtual implementations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hopefully the recommendation is not that useful for much longer, but Cartographers is a great boardgame that also works well for remote play. It’s mechanically simple and fun (you draw stuff!), with only a very small amount of direct player-on-player conflict, so it’s accessible to more casual and non-gamer friends. But it has a lot … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7640,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[404],"tags":[275],"class_list":["post-7639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games","tag-boardgames"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7639"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7641,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7639\/revisions\/7641"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}