Meme-Based Board Game Uses Kickstarter For the Win ~ Pare News

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The interpipes are leaking thanks to For the Win, a new, meme-based board game that’s hit Kickstarter in the hope of getting funded. The game, created by Michael Eskue and developed by Tasty Minstrel Games, is a tile-placing game featuring lite memes such as zombies, pirates, ninjas, monkeys and aliens.

The game is pretty simple: Get cards featuring the five different characters to touch each other and you win. Each of the cards has a special ability: ninjas can teleport to open spaces, monkeys can flip cards face-down. And, of course, you have to deal with the player sitting opposite you.

For the Win is looking for funding on Kickstarter after more than a year spent in development. The bigger question is why should you buy the game at all? The team behind For the Win has posted the entire rulebook online and basically given you templates for what the characters should look like. Why shell out cash for something you could make at home with your printer? (The final game will come with specially-printed plastic tiles.)

It’s a testament to the nature of crowd-sourcing, and perhaps a pure example of the honor rule, that people are willing to pay cash to the team to make their game a reality. So far, For the Win has more than half of its $15,000 goal with more than 22 days still left in the project.

The game also shows that memes aren’t just limited to the Internet. To be fair, the game uses the term “meme” pretty loosely. Don’t expect cards featuring Rebeca Black, Sad Keanu or the Forever Alone Guy. Still, it’s clear meme themes and Internet lingo are major selling points of the board game.

Do you think For the Win will get to production? Do you want to see memes in other board games such as Monopoly, Risk or even a quiz game like Balderdash? Sound off in the comments.

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