Funding new and original card games has never been easier thanks to crowdsourcing websites like Kickstarter. With recent successes being found in the college-party staple Cards Against Humanity and the adorable yet disturbing Exploding Kittens, it was only a matter of time before the twisted minds of Cyanide & Happiness decided to get in on the sweet card game action.
The group, which is renowned for its politically incorrect comics and web shorts, took to its social media this morning to announce its new card game, Joking Hazard, which would be crowd-funded via Kickstarter. Its rabid fan base wasted no time shortly after the announcement, as it quickly reached its $10,000 goal in less than half an hour, and is well on its way to reaching its first stretch goal.
Comic creator Rob DenBleyker stated in the announcement video that the inspiration for the game came from the Random Comic Generator, which, as the name suggests, randomly generates three Cyanide & Happiness comic panels. A few weeks after the launch of the random generator, many of the creators printed off every single panel and created the basics of the card game that would become Joking Hazard.
Our Kickstarter is up and running! Check it out here: https://t.co/mrEYvqvqQB pic.twitter.com/YCkn7Qm2Hl
— Joking Hazard (@CnHJokingHazard) February 9, 2016
Those familiar with the rule set of Cards Against Humanity will instantly recognize the game’s familiar layout. However, instead of combining black and white cards to make outlandish sentences, each round of Joking Hazard has the players creating their own Cyanide & Happiness comic. The game starts with a “judge” drawing a card from the deck that will represent the middle comic panel. From there, the judge will look at his or her hand of seven cards and choose what will be the first panel of the comic. After these steps, each of the respective players will give what card they think fits best in the last panel, and the judge decides who wins that round. The game continues until one player has won three rounds.
Those who may not want to back the game financially can still have fun nonetheless in the form of the stretch goal system, which asks fans to do incredibly odd things from tweeting comic strips to Donald Trump with the tag #MakeComicsGreatAgain, to even making videos of elderly people reenacting Cyanide & Happiness comics.
The campaign is set to go on up to March 10, and you can find a link to the campaign here.
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Source: Kickstarter
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