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Roll Camera!: The Filmmaking Board Game

Roll dice for camera, sound and actors, and save a failing film studio with one last movie.

You are producers at a film company on its last legs, with one final shot at a successful movie. Bring it in on time and under budget, keep the quality up and somehow make the story make sense, or the studio collapses. Roll Camera! is a cooperative (or solo) dice worker-placement game where you throw custom Crew dice, each face a production department such as camera, light, sound, actor, design or effects, and assign them to actions on the main board or your own player board. Your board represents a head of department, and the shoot itself becomes a geometric puzzle you arrange on a grid. One to six players, around ninety minutes, with a very funny sense of filmmaking chaos.

Crew dice for every production departmentShooting arrangement as a grid puzzleCooperative or solo play

Who it's for

You love movies and want a cooperative game where the theme really shapes the puzzle, something like a producer simulator with dice.

Not for you if…

You want a quick filler or a competitive game. This is a ninety-minute team puzzle.

Vibe's take

Busy, funny and puzzly. You juggle dice, a budget and a schedule while arguing like a production team about what to shoot next.

#1,414 on BGG

of over 30,000 ranked board games

Published 2021 Β· 5 years ago

newer than 63% of games

In 5,967 collections

collected more than 65% of games

1–6 players Β· ages 10+

Best with 3 Β· publisher: 11+

45–90 min

longer than 77% of games Β· typical 30–90 min

Complexity: medium

One warm-up round Β· 2.2 out of 5 Β· heavier than 58%

Opinions: broad agreement

Most people rate it similarly

Language: lots of text

Lots of text, fluency helps

Play style: cooperative Β· solo too