Mapmaker: The Gerrymandering Game available in alpha

[gkz]

Mapmaker: The Gerrymandering Game is available in alpha.

This is a game where you place district borders and compete to gerrymander the map to your advantage.
All players start out with the same number of votes -- the winner is the one who can gerrymander the most effectively!

Reviewer link: https://boardgamearena.com/reviewer?game=mapmaker

If you are not already a reviewer, let me know and I can add you to the Alpha testing group. Thanks for testing!

[SteveV]

Please add my non-reviewer friends:

chuck_d perigee madmoxxi rhejinald ted_not_ed "Asparagus Rex"

I'd love to add this to my group's repertoire...

Mapmaker: The Gerrymandering Game is available in alpha.

This is a game where you place district borders and compete to gerrymander the map to your advantage.
All players start out with the same number of votes -- the winner is the one who can gerrymander the most effectively!

Reviewer link: https://boardgamearena.com/reviewer?game=mapmaker

If you are not already a reviewer, let me know and I can add you to the Alpha testing group. Thanks for testing!

[gkz]

Added! Enjoy!

[JesterTDA]

Game totally works from what I can tell. Only wish is that it had an undo button.

[Rooster6975]

This game is terrific. Such a simple concept, yet so much strategy! As far as I can tell, the release on BGA works perfectly in all but one small aspect; it does not respect the colour choices of Premium users. As a result, the first couple of game I was green (the colour I usually play), but then when we played our third game, I was yellow without realizing it. I thought I was doing really well, little did I know that 2 of us both thought we were green! Since then, I have never been green nor have my other friends had their preferred colour respected. Other than that, great game!!

[paramesis]

...it does not respect the colour choices of Premium users. As a result, the first couple of game I was green (the colour I usually play), but then when we played our third game, I was yellow without realizing it...

If this is the table you are referring to, you can see at the very beginning of the replay that every player had a color preference (which is pretty rare). When multiple players express conflicting preferences, the framework does the best it can to give everybody their first choice, but it's not always possible.

[Rooster6975]

Yes!! That is precisely the table I was referring to! Wow, that's cool, you can pull that up from the history. OK, I understand. So if the colour of our preference is not offered by the original game, then the framework does its best to match the chosen colours to the available colours. Makes sense. I can clearly see that the colour preference was taken into account in the gamelog, so I guess Fromir's preference was not available which made it a toss up between his colour and mine (green).

Thanks for the reply. I thought this game just neglected to take the preferred colours into account because I am always green, but I can see how that might be a problem if, for instance, green isn't an available colour. Then I might end up with someone else's preferred colour. Well, at least now I know to check my colour each game and not make assumptions. Tks!