Burano

Background

Burano, also known as the lace island, is an island in the northern Venetian lagoon. The island extremely famous for its brightly colored houses, those square-shaped houses of a riot of colors along the water channels make it like a fairy tale land. A favorite vacation spot for people all over the worlds. Burano is EmperorS4’s first large scale game that is distributed internationally. Designed by our chief designer Eros Lin and partner Yu-Chen Tseng, making it our first game to debut at Essen Spiel.

Highlight

Players represent a family leader on this little island. They can send men to fish for the main source of income, or send women to lacemaking to sale abroad. Making a good living and making Burano world famous, you have to figure out how to organize family members to their suitable work. The most intriguing aspect of Burano is the multi-level houses that all the players built together during game play, each time the board looks different.

Game Play

Burano is played over four seasons, 14 rounds altogether. Through the novel "cube pyramid-driven" mechanism, players take turns paying coins to operate their cube pyramid during each round. The operation of the color-coded cubes would trigger certain actions, such as fishing, lace making, and house roofing, which will earn players victory points (VP). At the end of the game, whoever has earned the most VP wins.