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Z Photo Game™
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Enter the competitive arena of fine art photography! Will your photos make the cut or end up in the thrift store bin?

Designed by Steve Zmak: https://stevezmak.com

Funded 2024: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/stevezmak/z-photo-gametm/
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The US Patent and Trademark Office has issued our trademark after six months.

In that time, we were able to run a successful Kickstarter campaign and create a limited-run edition of our game.

Pouring one out for all those 🎲✂️ having to pause or cancel their KS. We would have never survived this.
Cover of number 13 out of 100 copies of Z Photo Game.
April 10, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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3. Which photo came from the Curator?

4. The votes are in!

5. Award the points! *

* Yes, those are actual film canisters. #boardgames
The Curator collects all the submissions, shuffles the cards, and lays them out. Then all the photographers except the Curator try to guess which photo was the Curator’s own submission! The Curator gets points for each vote on their photo; each photographer gets a point for guessing the Curator’s photo correctly. But if someone voted for another photographer’s photo, the point goes to the owner of that photo! Award all the points by moving your color’s film canister on the scoring track, choose a new Curator, and deal one new card to all photographers. You’re ready for the next exhibit!
March 27, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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How do you play Z Photo Game™? Glad you asked!

1. Your portfolio has 9 cards.

2. The Curator announces their theme.

1/2 🧵 #boardgames
How do you play Z Photo Game? Each player is a photographer with a “portfolio” of nine cards to choose from when the Curator announces the theme of the exhibit. The Curator announces their theme for the exhibit, and each photographer, including the Curator, choses a photograph from their portfolio that best matches the theme. Your intent? Deceive the other photographers into choosing your photo!
March 27, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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Maybe we should partner and come up with a film canister/ P’kup mash-up! #boardgames
All the players voting with their colored film canisters on the photograph that best matches the curator’s theme.
March 25, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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We’ve already started to lay out and collect the first of many expansion decks. This one will be all black and whites from Steve Zmak’s portfolio. 🧐

ICYMI folks at our pick-up party got a sneak peek and added one to their limited edition game.
Several cards of black and white fine art photographs signed by artist and game designer Steve Zmak.
March 24, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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We just wrapped up a fulfillment party for the successful Kickstarter campaign (www.kickstarter.com/projects/ste...) of our first edition of Z Photo Game™, so let's break some news while we're at it?

🚨 We're already thinking about a second edition. 🚨

#boardgames
Four-person game of Z Photo Game, with nine cards for each player and film canisters for voting and scoring markers.
March 23, 2025 at 3:48 PM