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Overview

The Game Makers is a worker-placement game where each player takes turns gathering components to build the world's greatest games. Along the way, unneeded components can be repurposed to form workers, structures, and other upgrades to increase your factory's efficiency. Fill your display case and become the greatest game maker ever.

End Game and Scoring

The game ends when one player's display case is filled.

How does the game work?

There is no turn order. Each player takes their turn simultaneously, moving their forklifts from the "ready" position to a part of the warehouse. A new turn cannot begin until all forklifts are out of the "ready" position. When all players have finished, the warehouse wheel turns and moves to the next wedge, changing which components are available. You can move your forklifts to any available space, even a space that has your own or another player's forklifts on it.

The Warehouse Wheel

The warehouse wheel is how you control your workers and gain components to build games. When your forklift(s) are in the "ready" zone, you move them to a space to gain that component. After moved, the forklift cannot be moved again until it's returned to the "ready" position. Each component's "quality" (level 3, 2, or 1) is related to its distance from the "ready" position. A level 3 component will be the furthest away, thus taking the most time to get your forklift back to ready after retrieving it.

Components

When you take a resource, you must decide whether to use it as a component or a company asset. Each component serves two purposes. One is as a game part (component). The other is used for upgrading your factory (company asset) and is unique to each type of resource. Once you decide, you cannot switch it back.

Component	Company Asset	What does it do as an asset?
Cards	Contract	Represents a game contract to be fulfilled. Once it's fulfilled (has all its parts), it can be placed on your display case.
Board	Machinery
Wood	Worker
Dice	Marketing Multiplier
Plastic	Structure

Contracts/Cards

Once you have all the parts for a game, you can fulfill the contract at any time and put it onto your display case. You will earn the rewards noted at the bottom of the card. There are four types of games: set collection, war, co-op, strategy.

You can "overpay" for a contract, using components that are "better" than what it needs. For example, if a contract needs a level 2 plastic (white tower), you can substitute a level 3 plastic (black tower) to complete it.

Workers/Wood

When not being used as wood, workers are used as enhancements to increase your factories yields. Workers (as assets) stay in the break room until assigned somewhere. They can be assigned to an enhancement, gain a single resource, or a structure (which is a unique bonus picked before the game starts, displayed in the lower right). Each worker can only be used once and many spaces require a specific level of worker. But when the warehouse wheel makes a full rotation, it's "time for a break"! All workers in the factory are moved back to the break room and can be reassigned. Workers can be moved at any time during your turn, even if you just gained them.

Enhancements

Workers in the upper row (represented by an eye

Icon	Row	Enhancement
	Upper	Draw one more card or tile for each worker placed in one of these slots.
	Lower	Add the number of workers to any Dice actions or Market Advancements. This also applies to spaces moved up in the marketing column (increasing the VP you earn per completed game)