Pluto Dinerama Coming To Kickstarter

Frank Spiro is a Hollywood screenwriter whose credits include the Emmy nominated comedy series Bridesman, and his fiancé Jesse Shamon creates sci-fi and fantasy design for Tor Publishing, but in between all that, the pair found time to collaborate on a new tabletop card game called Pluto Dinerama. The crowdfunding campaign for the game launches soon on Kickstarter.

 

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Pluto Dinerama Overview and Game Setting

So you’ve decided to open a diner on Pluto. Well, you’re not the only one! Two to five other people just constructed restaurants on the same dwarf sub-planet at the same time. And THEN the growing market wound up attracting Big Oppressive Business, as it usually does, and the giant conglomerate Rival Diner opened a huge attractive branch on Pluto to suck in all the dollars (or whatever currency they use on Pluto)! How will you survive?

Pluto Dinerama has a unique gameplay strategy that is both cooperative and competitive. The tabletop card game played in rounds. Each round is comprised of a Morning, Day, and Night. During the Morning, players will line up customers and discover their needs, abilities, quotes and requirements to meet in order to seat them. In the Afternoon, players will install ambience, add to the menu, and hire employees during their turn for a chance to seat the first customer in line. During the Night, players will draw a strategic, creative or game event and compete in a social game that will build out their unique world.

The Cooperative Game Twist

Early on in the game, you’ll need to work with the other players to take down Rival Diner. Once they’re gone, your only competition will be each other, so you have to fight for singular dominance. There are only a finite number of customers and they’ll head to the place they like the most. The first player to successfully seat ten customers at once is the winner.

Frank Spiro and Jesse Shamon bring a wealth of creative experience to Pluto Dinerama. Spiro’s background in screenwriting and Shamon’s expertise in sci-fi and fantasy design have combined to create a game that promises both strategic depth and imaginative world-building. Their collaboration on this project reflects their shared passion for storytelling and game design, making Pluto Dinerama a highly anticipated release in the tabletop gaming community.

Pluto Dinerama is for two to five players ages 10 and up. Each game takes 60 to 90 minutes to play. More to come when the Kickstarter launches. Sign up on the Pluto Dinerama site to reserve your Kickstarter launch invite. Follow along with the game’s journey on Instagram.