Cancel Me! - Devlog #1

It’s been roughly three weeks since I began work on the prototype for my social media-themed turn-based card game, Cancel Me! The game is centered around influencers and controversies, and uses Drama, Response, and Chaos cards.

It’s a cozy game to be played by 4-6 people. You take a turn and play a Drama card, targeting a player to use it against. The card could be titled “Oh, come on”, and the description would be: “Made the mistake of showing the URL of a gambling site while condemning the habit.”

The player you target then gets to play a Response card, which could be titled “It was satire” with the action being “Drama card works anyway.” 

At the start, all players would pick from a shuffled deck, two Drama cards, two Response cards, and two Chaos cards. I don’t have any artwork for the Chaos cards yet, but they’re supposed to introduce an element of randomness to the game. They could force players to swap decks with each other, skip their next turn, or grab new cards from the deck.

The ruleset is still “fluid” and not strictly defined for me. The goal for the prototype would be to have a sort of playground or sandbox to test the ideas and iterate over them. I will release each version of the game in print ‘n’ play form for you guys to check out on Itch.io, and plan on getting a physical version of the game sometime this year or the next.

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