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Camel Up Review

  1. Was it fun? Yes, it was. This game is super unique and I really like the mechanic of rolling the die from the pyramid to move the camels. 
  2. What were the player interactions? This game involved betting on what camels that you think would win the race. If you bet first, it reduces the amount of points that other players could potentially get from betting on that same color. Players could also place spectator cards on the track to influence how the camels move. For instance, if a camel moved on the space, it would either move forward or backward, hence influencing the outcomes of the race and player’s bets. 
  3. How long did it take to learn? I thought that this game was fairly simplistic to learn and it didn’t take us very long to get a hang of it. 
  4. Would you play it again? Yes, I would. I don’t typically play games like this, and it was different in a good way. 
  5. Analyze the game using the 3 act structure. The first act of the game involved the set up and the first leg of the race. At this point, we were beginning to learn what actions we could take on our turns and generally how the game worked. The second act of the game would involve the following legs of the race, except for the last one. This is when we started figuring out how to strategize. We started getting invested in which camel we thought was going to win. The third act of the game would have been the final leg of the race when the camels were nearing the finish line, at this point there were only a handful of camels that looked like they would potentially win and it became evident that the yellow camel would. When the yellow camel won, we counted up the final bets, received and counted our coins, and determined a winner. 
  6. What are the collaborative and or competitive aspects of the game? This was definitely a competitive game. Players want their camel to win and not everyone else’s camels. On each leg, you could see what each other player bet on (but not the bet for the entire race) and you could place spectator tiles accordingly. Everyone was competing for the most money at the end of the game. 
  7. What is the game’s metaphor and which of the game’s mechanics standout? The game’s metaphor is about betting on racing camels in Egypt. Besides the rolling of the dice from the pyramid that I already mentioned, another standout mechanic were the crazy camels that when their die was rolled, they moved counterclockwise and could potentially carry the other camels with them.

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