Unpub: The Unpublished Card Game (2015)

About this game

Unpub: The Unpublished Card Game is inspired by the spirit of Unpub, an organization devoted to helping game designers craft their unpolished, unpublished stones into sparkling, publishable gems! The game comes with 54 cards, each featuring a possible game theme, a core mechanism, and game components that the players will use to craft a game idea. Each round, one player acts as publisher and uses an element from one of their cards to inspire the designers to pitch a game using two of the other three elements on cards in their hand. The best game pitch gets a publishing contract!

Does it fit your group?

• Group size. Works with 3 to 8.
• Rules load. At 1.2/5 this is a light game — explain it in a few minutes, good for a table that has not played much.
• Age. The publisher suggests 13 and up. That rates the rules rather than the artwork, so judge the box yourself for younger players.