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• I knew the basics of Dodo when we visited the KOSMOS booth — a co-operative kids' game in which you try to save the dodo's egg — and I assumed this would be a ridiculously difficult game intended to teach children about the meaningless of life and why you shouldn't bother trying to achieve your goals. After all, dodos are extinct, so clearly these children failed.
What I didn't expect was the bizarre, wait-a-sec-is-that-egg-broken-or-does-the-presenter-not-notice-it's-still-OHMIGOD-THAT-EGG-IS-WOBBLING-ALONG-LIKE-IT'S-POSSESSED effect of seeing the dodo egg in action. The gameplay is basic, with players needing to roll a die and find stuff (or remember where they saw stuff previously), with you being to increase the difficulty of the game if needed, but the production quality of the game is astounding, with action that will look like nothing in still images, yet be eye-catching in videos on social media.
The scoring part of the game has a neat twist as you move up four colored tracks as you complete buildings. If you reach the top of a track and score that color again, you don't gain any more points — you being at the top and all — but everyone else is knocked down one scoring level in that color. Keep scoring in that color, and you can knock them off that track completely with no chance of readmittance.
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At some point during the many discussions that Lincoln and I had while rushing between exhibitor booths, I mentioned that I found it surprising that publishers didn't create a set of thumbnail-proportioned images (640x360, 1,280x720, 1,920x1,080) to give members of the press so that videos wouldn't have so many odd-looking thumbnails that wedge a 3D cover in place awkwardly — and lo and behold, Fontanus Center was the first such company to deliver a thumbnail-proportioned image when I requested a 2D front cover for use on BGG. (I'd still like the flat front cover, but at least this video looks sharp!)
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Too many games in too few days perhaps. Time to watch it again to re-learn what's already fallen out of my head...
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Ideally we can shoot a better presented video of this game at SPIEL '20 as we'll then have an overhead camera and can do a better job of keeping things in the frame. Still, I hope you'll give it a look.
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