Carpe Diem

The players slip into the role of rich patricians in ancient Rome. Everyone is trying to build a lucrative city district to score as many prestige points as possible. The novel way to get to the individual buildings of a district combined with a large variety of score cards make for an unusual game with a large number of strategies. From the successful designer, Stefan Feld.

{
  "game_id": 245934,
  "name": "Carpe Diem",
  "core_verb": "pick tile from rondel, place",
  "decision_shape": "combinatorial",
  "reward_schedule": "mixed:immediate+delayed",
  "aesthetics": [
    "Challenge",
    "Expression"
  ],
  "core_loop_pitch": "Move a pawn around the outer rondel, take an adjacent tile, slot it into your district where adjacency triggers fire.",
  "mobile_translation_difficulty": "Easy",
  "translation_difficulty_reason": "Rondel drafting plus tile placement onto a personal grid is touch-perfect and deterministic; available on BGA but no first-party app yet.",
  "direct_digital_port": "Carpe Diem (browser, Board Game Arena)",
  "direct_digital_port_kind": "bga",
  "closest_loop_translation": "none yet",
  "primitive_tags": [
    "rondel_pawn_drafting",
    "personal_grid_polyomino",
    "adjacency_trigger_payoff",
    "scoring_card_milestones",
    "feld_point_salad_endgame"
  ],
  "confidence": 0.7
}