Overview
At a glance
Is this game right for my group?
ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.
Easier to teach
High replayability
Highly interactive
Scales well
Light strategy
More strategic control
How it plays
How does it play?
Help Georges Méliès film A Trip to the Moon by preparing sets, directing performers, shooting scenes, and hand-colouring photograms.
Core mechanisms
Key systems that shape the decisions players make.
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1902 Méliès casts players as assistant directors collaborating on Georges Méliès’s pioneering A Trip to the Moon. Workers enter the studio through paired action strips, where timing determines access to sets, performers, special effects, filming, editing, and hand-colouring. Completed scenes and photograms build prestige, but the production ends as soon as one assistant records a sixth scene, so every ticket and placement matters. The result is a compact worker-placement game whose interlocking actions turn early cinema into a tight scheduling puzzle.
