From the creators of Cyanide & Happiness comes a card game where players compete to finish an awful comic strip.
The creators said:
"Someone on the Internet once told us that making stick figure comics is easy as hell, and that we were ugly and stupid.
They were right on all counts. So, after crying for a few hours, we created the Random Comic Generator which since its inception in 2014 has entertained millions with its computer-generated comedy.
After a few weeks of playing with the Random Comic Generator, we started to wonder if its hundreds of random panels might lend themselves to a card game, where you compete against your friends to finish a comic with a funny punchline. So we printed out all of the RCG panels and started playing with them."
Draw 7 cards. The deck plays the first card, select a Judge to play the second, then everyone selects a third card to create a three panel comic strip. The Judge picks a winner.
The game includes a deck of 350 unique panel cards - that’s 15.4 million combinations of comics!
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- creative twist on party games
- less offensive than Cards Against Humanity
- humor can be divisive
- humor and joke construction
- party-style card game aiming to build a three-panel comic strip
- panel-based storytelling
- Cards Against Humanity
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- card play and panel alignment — players contribute cards to complete the three-panel comic; judge decides the funniest/most interesting
- judge-driven comic strip creation — a judge reveals one card and must also play a card from their hand to form the first two panels; others pick a card for the third panel
Video topics + discussion points
Quotes (from this video)
- this is a 4X Style game that plays in 60 to 90 minutes
- you never actually occupy any of the space between the planets you just use that space to figure out how far you have to actually travel in one shot to get from one spot to the other
- the judge they reveal one card into the middle of the table and unlike every other of these types of games that I've played the judge now actually has a decision to make they have to play a card from their hand as well
- it's a party style game where everybody has a hand of cards one person is the judge
References (from this video)
- funny prompts and accessible premise
- creative prompt randomness
- humor can be offensive to some
- quality of jokes depends on group
- dark humor and irreverence
- panel-card humor game based on webcomic panels
- comedic, cartoonish
- Exploding Kittens
- The Worst Card Game
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- panel-card storytelling — players place cards to construct humorous or shocking punchlines.
- party game dynamics — competitive rounds centered on humor and timing.
Video topics + discussion points
Quotes (from this video)
- board games are not about having fun they're about getting it right
- cooperative game of adventure exploration and survival for up to 4 players
- one to five player semi-cooperative sci-fi horror where you and your friends try to survive while attempting to fulfill your secret objectives
- panel cards... we can't even show them on Kickstarter without censoring them
- it's actually a green screen yeah it's always the one i almost choose instead
- exploding kittens it was nice the beginning of a potentially beautiful friendship