New Drinking Board Game Uses Memes as Spaces
もしあなたがネットミームとお酒、どちらも好きならぴったりのゲームがある、それがミームドリンキングボードゲーム(Meme Drinking Board Game)だ。それぞれのマスにはネット上で有名なミームが描かれ、サイコロをふって指示に従う。
このゲームがアップされてまもなく、熱心なミームファンによりオンライン有料版も作成されたという。このボードゲームを作成したMarc Sloanは予想以上の反響の大きさに驚きを隠せない。
飲み会用ボードゲームの他にも、ミームをベースにしたボードゲームがソーシャル資金調達プラットフォームのKickStarterからファンドを提供されたり、ミームのオンラインカードゲームが作成されるなど、ネットミームを題材にした様々なゲームが開発されている。(要約)
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If you like memes and alcohol, you’ll love this new drinking game that uses 24 memes as spaces of a board game. Cheers to that! Reddit‘s kc_sharky unveiled the game Thursday on the popular news aggregation site.
“Meme Drinking Board Game” starts with the Rent Is Too Damn High meme and ends with the Success Baby meme. Sandwiched in between are memes such as Lazy College Senior, Annoying Facebook Girl, Scumbag Steve, Philosoraptor, Angry Ass Wolf and more. To play, roll dice and follow the instructions on each meme.
In less than day, a fan of the game has already created a playable online version of it after seeing the original.
“I’m genuinely overwhelmed at the response it’s gotten online,” game creator Marc Sloan (a.k.a. kc_sharky on Reddit) told Mashable. “As my flatmate pointed out, I am probably going to be partly responsible for some battered livers and heavy headaches this weekend.”
The eight playing pieces for the game are memes, too, including Nyan Cat, Nigel Thornberry and Snowy Owl.
Sloan and six friends tested the board game Tuesday while drinking Peroni beer at the University of London before unleashing it to the world Thursday. The session prompted Sloan to tweak a few things.
“Play testing was the best part,” Sloan said. “There was actually about four iterations of it. A group of us played it on Valentine’s Day — forever alone indeed — while it was very rough, and I found a whole load of problems.”
From that point to now, Sloan fixed the pace of the game, made some text funnier and made the game less “brutal” so players could last longer.
The Rage Face Drinking Game inspired Sloan to whip up Meme Drinking Board Game. Sloan and his buddy John Angelcurse used to bring a laminated copy of Rage Face Drinking Game to pubs.
“After the game, and in a rather inebriated state, we couldn’t help but think of drinking challenges for other memes and we eventually thought of enough to warrant trying to make a game ourselves,” Sloan said.
Earlier this year, an unrelated meme-based board game was successfully funded on Kickstarter. Another Kickstarter project for Internet meme playing cards fell short of its funding goal. The cards would have featured 52 memes, including Y U NO Guy, Sad Keanu, Hipster Ariel, Futurama Fry and Pepper-Spray Cop.
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