Chamelee-Yum!
- Players: 3-6
- Age: 8+
- Duration: 15-30mins
- Complexity: 2/5
Interactive, family-friendly boardgame with special twist for people who enjoy esthetic, cute set collection games.
Most similar games: Sushi-Go!
Summary
Gobble, grow & glow! Be the first little, lousy lizard to blossom into a dazzling chameleon.
Gameplay
Game Description: Every player begins as a tiny, plain (chameleon) hatchling. Through hunting and munching, you’ll grow bigger & and gain all the colors to be the radiant chameleon of your wildest dreams!
Gameplay:
- Each round, available „snacks“ spawn in the midst of all players.
- All players simultaneously & secretly decide on which one they want to target.
- All choices are revealed at the same time and clashes resolved.
- Then, based on the food the chameleons grow, get faster or gain more pigments.
Winning Condition: The first chameleon to shine in all colors wins immediately. (On a tie, the group decides which chameleon looks the absolute bestest!)
USP
You really „design“ yourself (as chameleon) while playing by stacking unique transparent pattern-cards on top of each other.
Target Audience
Family, Casual Players, Taste in aesthetics
Status & Playtesting
Performed playtesting with friends and children, as well at game club in Zürich, at boardgame designer meetup in Zürich & Luzern, and at hexcon game festival in Trondheim.
Game mechanics work very well.
Design and print artifacts to be optimized (note: the transparent cards can hardly be tested for a prototype before final production – therefore handmade cards)
Material / Components
- 72 standard playing cards (foods, fallback-snacks, powers)
- 36 tiny cards (6 for each player, for food selection)
- 6 tokens or mat (representing surrounding area where food spawns)
- 60 transparent cards (pigments/patterns)
- 6 player boards (chameleon stats & place for chameleon pattern stacking)
- 6 cubes