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SeabassDebeste 01/02/20 5:14:44 PM #78:	117. A Fake Artist Goes to New York (2012) Category: Team vs Team Genres: Party game, art, hidden traitor Rules complexity (0 to 7): 1 Game length: 10 minutes Experience: 10+ games over 4-5 sessions (2018-19) with 5-8+ players Previous ranks: NR (2016), NR (2018) Summary - There is a secret word that everyone knows except a hidden traitor. Everyone then draws one stroke of a common picture in a differently colored pen (so you can identify who drew which stroke). Once everyone has contributed to the drawing, everyone looks at the completed product and tries to identify the fake artist. Design - One of the most important things in a hidden roles type of game is being able to analyze the evidence - i.e., telling apart who drew which stroke. Fake Artist's differently-colored pens take care of this nicely. There's a reasonable amount of novelty in the mechanic: how do you make it clear that you're not the traitor (with the stroke you're drawing), but without revealing what the word is? Even the same word can't be played the same way twice with the same group. Experience - My experience with Fake Artist has been... lukewarm. Sometimes you find the perfect stroke that will signal what the image you've drawn is, but if your "clue" goes over the head of others and you're picked as a traitor, it kinda sucks. Similarly, in making the picture too accurate, you can be accused of tanking the game. While I love drawing and I enjoy hidden roles, I think I'd prefer a game that was a little stronger in one category or the other. The best comparison for Fake Artist might be a game I decliend to rank since I haven't played the physical copy really - Spyfall. Spyfall has the same one-guy-in-the-dark mechanic, but it distills the experience into pure question-and-answer instead of having the goofy art mechanic. That might encapsulate the issue - I had more fun with a pure deduction game than the hybrid found in Fake Artist, even though Fake Artist undoubtedly has "more" that's going on. Future - Honestly, it's fairly harmless, but the experience isn't great. I'm hoping for no. --- yet all sailors of all sorts are more or less capricious and unreliable - they live in the varying outer weather, and they inhale its fickleness <cite>SeabassDebeste posted [p:932376416] in another ye... [t:78284791]...</cite> <quote>117. A Fake Artist Goes to New York (2012) Category: Team vs Team Genres: Party game, art, hidden traitor Rules complexity (0 to 7): 1 Game length: 10 minutes Experience: 10+ games over 4-5 sessions (2018-19) with 5-8+ players Previous ranks: NR (2016), NR (2018) Summary - There is a secret word that everyone knows except a hidden traitor. Everyone then draws one stroke of a common picture in a differently colored pen (so you can identify who drew which stroke). Once everyone has contributed to the drawing, everyone looks at the completed product and tries to identify the fake artist. Design - One of the most important things in a hidden roles type of game is being able to analyze the evidence - i.e., telling apart who drew which stroke. Fake Artist's differently-colored pens take care of this nicely. There's a reasonable amount of novelty in the mechanic: how do you make it clear that you're not the traitor (with the stroke you're drawing), but without revealing what the word is? Even the same word can't be played the same way twice with the same group. Experience - My experience with Fake Artist has been... lukewarm. Sometimes you find the perfect stroke that will signal what the image you've drawn is, but if your "clue" goes over the head of others and you're picked as a traitor, it kinda sucks. Similarly, in making the picture too accurate, you can be accused of tanking the game. While I love drawing and I enjoy hidden roles, I think I'd prefer a game that was a little stronger in one category or the other. The best comparison for Fake Artist might be a game I decliend to rank since I haven't played the physical copy really - Spyfall. Spyfall has the same one-guy-in-the-dark mechanic, but it distills the experience into pure question-and-answer instead of having the goofy art mechanic. That might encapsulate the issue - I had more fun with a pure deduction game than the hybrid found in Fake Artist, even though Fake Artist undoubtedly has "more" that's going on. Future - Honestly, it's fairly harmless, but the experience isn't great. I'm hoping for no. --- yet all sailors of all sorts are more or less capricious and unreliable - they live in the varying outer weather, and they inhale its fickleness</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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