Rob Cramer

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Board game designer (The Grand Carnival, Turbo Drift, Zebra) in SLC, UT. (he/him)

A collage of images of the game Ratzia, designed by Reiner Knizia and illustrated by Sarah "Freedz" Conlon: a sticky note doodle of a wedge of cheese on a vaporwave background; a bid card and the "Cheese Gratest" marker, a golden box grater; some police cards featuring two policemice; a mouse getaway driver fleeing in a pink sports car with a bag of money flying out the side window; the scoreboard showing markers with different 80s icons (Polaroid camera, cassette, shutter shades); the box showing police busting up a mafia hideout
A plate of dark brown cookies filled with pecans and dark chocolate
A brown cavapoo lying on his back in a dog bed.
A brown cavapoo wearing a red harness sitting on an outdoor bench
The last four movies I watched and logged in Letterboxd: One Cut of the Dead (Four stars), The Invite (4 stars), Hoppers (2.5 stars), Now You See Me, Now You Don't (1.5. stars)
A sequence of images of a brown cavapoo licking an empty container of sour cream, sticking his whole head inside, and wandering away with the container on his head
A collage of images of the game Fliptown, designed by Steve Armani and illustrated by Naomi Ferrall: two playing cards lie above a player board; the Badlands area of the board with different robbery targets circled; a bot cowgirl and a player power card; a sticky note doodle showing a desert scattered with cards, desert plants, and animals; the western town with different buildings marked.
The posters for the last 4 movies I watched and the ratings I gave them: Ricky Jay and His 52 Assistants (4½ stars) Now You See Me 2 (2 stars) Now You See Me (2 stars) Backrooms (4 stars)
A game design note from a very sleepy me that reads "Each die can only be used for one thing. Strengrh or number of things fron a location like Las Vegas"
Two wooden cart pawns in the medieval city of Lübeck, with blue beans ready to be purchased.
The baffling poster for The Hudsucker Proxy featuring wild haired Tim Robbins holding a hula hoop and looming over the floating smiling faces of Jennifer Jason Leigh and Paul Newman.
A screenshot of text bubbles that says: i don't understand all that i'm happy for u tho or sorry that happened
A little brown dog being held in my wife's arms like the little baby he is
A collage of images of the board game Ubungo, designed by Grzegorz Rejchtman: the box for the game showing many polyomino pieces floating into an arrangement in the center; a solved player puzzle made out of 4 different polyomino pieces; the die which is rolled to determine which puzzle players are solving; a different solved player board; a sticky note collage with wrinkled polyomino pieces glued onto it.
A few board game boxes spread out on a bed: Catch the Moon, Karuba, Sushi Go and Mage Wars. Oh, and my dog is asleep in the background.
A brown cavapoo on his back, sleeping with teeth showing.
A comic depicting Remy the rat from Ratatouille visiting his brother Emile in the hospital as his dad says "Pilot the Frenchman, Remy. Or Emile will have to do it again."
A terrible 4-panel comic I made about a robot powered by a hamster that I used to draw in college: I once made a comic about a robot. They were powered by a hamster inside. And they uh...they...in the comic...it was like... Ok, fine. I drew these figures because I couldn't focus in college and I wasn't a good student and these were a fixation that got my mind off how little I actually drove the direction of my life. Things are better now!
A collage of images of the game Yura Yura Penguin Mini designed by Ryoko Yabuchi: the box cover with blue and white ice rock pieces scattered in front; a penguin chick laying down on a piece of ice; a tower of icebergs and cards surrounded by facedown cards that look like ocean; a sticky note doodle of the box cover showing a stack of cards, ice, and penguins collapsing; a selection of cards used to stack on the iceberg
An array of pictures of the game Whozit? designed by Romaric Calonnier: orange Cards reading "Count Dracula" "youngest player in the room" "farmer" "Godzilla" "Abraham Lincoln" and "archaeologist" each assigned a different number between 1 and 6; a scale where players can rank characteristics from "definitely" to "definitely not"; a sticky note doodle like the box; a red pawn on a score board; the box for Whozit? showing silhouettes of people's side profiles among bars of colors.
A collage of images of the game The Choice, designed by Reinhard Staupe: the player sheet which has a grid of hexes filled with numbers surrounded by a belt of colored hexes. Some color hexes are crossed out, and the number hexes have a path traced through them; the box that tells players, "You have the choice!"; a tricolor sticky note doodle mimicking the box; three dice with numbers 1-6 and 6 different colors on them
A collage of images of the game Wallamoppi, original concept and prototype by Garrett J. Donner and Michael S. Steer: a stack of dark and light wood disks that start as a narrowing wall at the bottom, but then are topped by a tower of alternating discs; a wooden box that has a marble track in the inside, a black marble is pictured running down the end of the track; a sticky note doodle of two long neck birds stacking discs on top of each other.
Two people and a dog walk across a newly painted crosswalk that has two white lines hugging a 4x15 grid of pentominos in greens, blues, and yellows.
5 cardboard squares (27x27 inches) arranged in a pentomino on a driveway
A collage of images of the game Cascadito, designed by Reiner Knizia, illustrated by Ian O'Toole: 6 black dice with different icons representing mining, manufacturing, agriculture, trading, and education; a doodle on a sticky note showing a castle on a hill; the box cover showing a bugeler bugeling; the player sheet showing a kingdom made up of hexagons.
The render for the new Star Fox design. His upper 2/3rds is torso and he's got tiny little legs. He's my hero.
A collage of images of Fairy Trails, designed by Uwe Rosenberg and illustrated by Nicolas Demers: a forest made out of cards with neon green and purple stone paths running through it. Green and purple plastic pieces mark some spaces; a doodle on a blue sticky note of the title and two intertwining paths; the box art showing a fairy and gnome walking in front of a forest home; a top down view of the forest cards showing homes that will have pieces placed on top of them when the paths are completed.
A few cards from Stellarion, illustrated by Élise Plessis. The cards have a pitch black background with celestial bodies like planets, stars, and nebulas in purple and red.
A collage of images of the game Urbion, designed by Shadi Torbey and illustrated by Élise Plessis: A dream card featuring creatures that look like pink elephants with multiple eyes along their trunk; a postcard showing a blue creature jumping between roofs; a purple dream card showing a creature that looks like an angry volcano; a sticky note doodle divided into yellow and purple along the diagonal to mimic the box cover; the Emptiness figurine on a city card. The Emptiness looks like a giant black and white swirl with 4 legs and 8 eyeballs along the rim; the box cover showing the Incubi (sad, negative dreams) and Sognae (happy, positive dreams) facing off against each other.
A slide showing a satellite image of a proposed crosswalk painting made up of 12 pentominoes packed into a rectangle.
A deck of cards from the game Sprint!
A collage of images of the board game Sprint! , designed by Sébastien Decades and illustrated by Stivo: tortoise and hare standees are racing along a track; a doodle on a yellow sticky note of a hare running past a tortoise; sprint cards, with one showing the number 22, which is how many cards you need to pick up from a deck; the box for Sprint! showing the hare and tortoise racing in an arena; a deck of 32 cards, the main mechanism of the game.
A pink Kaiju with a giant bladed head and spikes on their back. The card is crudely drawn.
A collage of images of the game boop. designed by Scott Brady and art by Curt Covert: orange and grey cats and kittens spread across a blue quilt-top board; a blue sticky note with a doodle of a fat orange cat peeking out of a circle surrounded by paw prints and fish skeletons; the box cover showing a cat peeking out of a circle.
Two packs of Fruit Stripe bubble gum that feature a soccer playing zebra with multicolor stripes. The unwrapped gum sticks are shown off to the right and are striped like zebras.
A collage of images of the game Machi Koro, designed by Masao Suganuma: a blue sticky note doodled with the title, forest, mountains, and radio tower; a player's array of cards that will earn them money during the game, these are titled Bakery and Convenience Store; two six sided dice, one green, one blue; an array of cards players can buy during the game; a small pile of copper-, silver-, and gold-colored coins; the box cover showing a city in front of a mountain range.
A screenshot of my chat with a GFiber agent as I try to cancel my Internet. Instead of attaching an email saying I'll be charged money on April 13th, I attach a screenshot of an audience review of Teen Titans GO! to the Movies that says "Horrible movie this is worse than the show I freaking hate it. DISCUSSING!" Underneath that I've written "Whoops, not that" For the record, Teen Titans GO! to the Movies rules. That screenshot was someone else.
The last four movies I logged in Letterboxd: Picnic at Hanging Rock, My Scientologist Movie, Project Hail Mary, and Nirvana The Band The Show The Movie
The neglected drowning child meme where the loved child (labeled George, Ringo, and John) is playing with their attentive mother, while the painted head of Paul McCartney is drowning in the foreground.
The neglected drowning child meme where the loved child (labeled George, Ringo, and John) is playing with their attentive mother, while the painted head of Paul McCartney is drowning in the foreground.
The Jaws poster, but instead of a shark rising up from the depths of the sea to devour a swimmer, it's my dog George showing his teeth and the title has been changed to Paws. It's a masterpiece.
A doodle on a pale yellow sticky note of an embroidered patch of a koala and the title "Koala Rescue Club"
A bastardization of incredible eye sketches where two completely different eyes somehow belong to the same derpy face and the face is saying, "Eyy...."
A collage of images of the game Koala Rescue Club, designed by Phil Walker-Harding, illustrated by Meredith Walker-Harding, and published by Postmark Games and Joey Games: a 6-sided die and wet-erase marker beside a player sheet with circled trees with koalas in them; the circle shape patterns and volunteers; the merit badges that earn you points for completing tree areas; a sticky note with a merit badge illustration; an array of veterinary hospitals.
A print of a poster that says "Abolish ICE". The image is a melting block of ice being busted up by flying angel eyes, surrounded by a ring of people locking arms
Figures on a river showing a government spectrum from democracy to dictatorship.
A red fox squirrel spread-eagle on the top of a shingled roof, looking down upon their kingdom.
A computer mouse resting on an unopened mouse pad in a cardboard sleeve
A screenshot of a post on the Clue: Conspiracy Board Game Geek page titled "HAS ANYONE PLAYED THIS WHILE NOT HOPPED UP ON GOOFBALLS?" A user named Alex posted this shortly after midnight: WE DIDN'T LIKE THIS VERY MUCH CUT NO ONE COULD TELL IF WE'D LINE IT BETTER HD WE AREN'T ALL HAVING A REALLY FAST TIME 🖤🖤🖤 🦆 A second post by the same user, later that day: Thank you, I'll be fielding no questions about this post.
A collage of images of the game Ishtar: Gardens of Babylon, designed by Bruno Cathala and Evan Singh, illustrated by Biboun: the box cover showing a blooming orange flower; a watering can token in front of a three space garden tile with grass and a flowerbed on it; a paint doodle on a brown sticky note that mimics the box cover; a tree card; the board showing a purple fountain, a blue gardener, and a tree token; 4 plastic gems on a player board
A brown cavapoo with short hair lying in grass and weeds.
The terrifying handmade clown bed from The Simpsons that Homer makes for young Bart. The clown has hollow eyes, gapped teeth, pig nose, and razor sharp collar around the neck.
A collage of images of the dice game Easy Come Easy Go, designed by Reiner Knizia: a purple-felt-lined cup with 4 dice falling out. the dice have the 6 replaced with a zero; an orange sticky note with the title doodled on it; a placard showing a woman standing outside a private jet and the tile says "13 exactly"; a placard that has a guy sitting on top of a pile of gold coins and money bills. The tile says "STRAIGHT"; the box cover
A wooden token from Fearsome Floors. The girl looks like Wednesday Addams and she's standing in front of a pool of blood.
A screenshot of Sardegna's rulebook published by playte: Designed by Stefan Dorra. Illustrated by Wanjin Gill. Published by Gameology Inc. playte. www.playte.com ©Stefan Dorra, Gameology Inc., All rights reserved. 'Sardegna' is a product of a licensing agreement between Stefan Dorra and Gameology Inc. The rules and artwork may not be copied. The illustrations on the game box and some of the cards were generated by AI, and the illustrator adjusted and finalized them. The functions of Sardegna's game board and box (L BOARD) are patent registered.
A black and white collage of images of the game The Game of Coda: the box; a set of 4 black and white tiles with numbers arranged from low to high; a doodle of the game on a black sticky note; a pile of black and white tiles face down.
A brown cavapoo looking calm and sweet in one photo, and then screaming (yawning) as the flash accidentally goes off
A collage of images of the game Railroad Ink, designed by Hjalmar Hach & Lorenzo Silva: a red sticky note doodle with a train, volcano, and meteor; a player board at the end of a game showing highways, railways, and a giant lake of lava; 6 dice showing pathways and lava lakes; the box.
A ink doodle of a wrinkly pug nestled in the folds of a blanket
A collage of images of the game Rumis, designed by Stefan Kögl: a pyramid of player pieces at the end of the game; the box of the game; a sticky note doodle of the title; a selection of player pieces, which are polycubes.