Hoy se salout
is a Spanish card game set on a night out.
The player who gets the most anecdotes wins: from tattooing a buttock to ending the night flirting with a man dressed as SpongeBob.
It was financed through a
crowdfunding
campaign
that began on June 9, and its patrons received it at the end of October.
This is what happens when you receive a game about partying, called
Hoy se sal,
just in the week that the curfew is established and you cannot go out:
Just in time for the confinement of the confinement, and complying with the legal maximum of friends to share it!
I'm looking forward to the weekend #HoySeSale pic.twitter.com/2LRErSQuOO
- Pilar R. (@lalalapilara) October 26, 2020
For the new normal it is necessary that the spirit of the old party is not lost.
Good thing this has come to me. # HoySeSale pic.twitter.com/ntjAVC40OR
- Save 10 (@mrzephaniam) October 27, 2020
Although it may seem that the game has had a super timed schedule to be able to enjoy a placebo of going out during confinement,
Hoy se sal was
born long before the pandemic.
"We started to prepare it in 2015," he tells
Verne
Xabi Tolosa, co-creator of the game with Pablo Hernando
, by phone
.
"The idea came about because we both like board games a lot, and we started with the joke of making a kind of Monopoly in which the boxes were floors where we had been partying," he says, "although the idea has changed a lot since then. "
The game, which needed 8,000 euros of financing to be viable, achieved more than double, 18,500, and can be found in specialized stores and large supermarkets since last November 6.
The mechanics of
Hoy se departs
is simple.
The game humorously recreates a night of extreme revelry, in which the participants go through different scenarios, represented in cards, and each one with specific rules.
They can be from places where a party normally starts, such as a brewery or a cocktail bar, to surreal places like the sewers, the racecourse, the opera or a funeral home.
Through the action cards and the event cards, we have to try to be the player who ends the night with the most anecdotes, trying to stay alive.
Tolosa has summarized the rules in a three minute video:
"Due to the theme, the illustrations by Paco Alcázar [cartoonist and author of cartoons like Silvio José] and the dynamics of the game, can quite remind us of what it was like to go out before the pandemic," says Tolosa. "One of the things that What was liked a lot is that although the situations that occur in the game are obviously jokes, very exaggerated, people make references to things that have happened to them, remember and comment on anecdotes ... beyond what is happening at the table of game, there is a social act ".
Tolosa says that "although now it seems that the publication schedule has been perfect, we have not always had it so clear: when we launched crowdfunding in June we did not know if it was a good idea to launch it in the middle of the pandemic, because it is a game with great social component and designed to spend the afternoon playing at home ”, he explains.
Laugh while playing
Xabi Tolosa explains that since they conceived the game five years ago, they had a clear premise: it had to be a game of humor.
"We wanted it to be funny from the beginning," he says.
"In fact, as we tested the game and polished it, we eliminated many letters that were winks and references to things that had happened to us so that, within the comic and surreal that many situations are, anyone can feel identified," he explains.
enlarge photo Some of the scenarios in which the action happens in 'Hoy se sal'.
Click to enlarge.
Courtesy of the authors
Although all board games - and leisure, in general - are designed to have a fun and entertaining time, there are many titles that go further and, among their pretensions, is to make you laugh.
On Board Game Geek, the largest digital database of board games, there are more than 5,000 titles tagged in the humor category.
Many of them are true
best sellers
within the board game industry.
For example,
Explodings Kittens,
a card game co-created by comic book artist The Oatmeal, remains one of the highest grossing projects in the history of crowdfunding platform Kickstarter.
More than 200,000 people bought the game in advance, and it raised more than 7.5 million euros.
In addition to The Oatmeal (which has illustrated more successful board games, such as
Throw Throw Burrito
), there are more cartoonists and humorists who have released their comic games.
Apart from Paco Alcázar himself and
Hoy se sale,
in Spain there are published several games dedicated to the universe
of Cels Piñol's
Fanhunter
comics
(and co-created by Piñol himself).
This year,
Tranvía Mortal,
a comic adaptation of the philosophical dilemma of the tram by the creators of the black humor comic strips Explosm
, has also been published in Spain
.
It also raised over a million euros on Kickstarter.
Also some games that were not originally born as comic games have published official satirical versions or expansions.
In the popular card game Magic: The Gathering, there are two collections of comic cards.
Also the game inspired by the universe of HP Lovecraft
Arkham Horror
has an expansion that was born as an April Fool's day joke and that, after being well received, became a reality:
Barkham Horror,
in which the researchers are dogs that have Than to stop a cat cult.
In case you want to try a comic game that will cheer you up these curfew weeks, below is a list of some of the most popular and fun titles:
Today it leaves
Letters Against Humanity
(free to download and print)
Interference
Secret Hitler
(at the moment, only edited in English, but has hardly any text. Can be downloaded and printed for free)
Exploding kittens
Throw Throw Burrito
Gloom
Munchkin
Team 3
Yes dark lord
Fanpiro
(role)
Fanhunter
(role)
Brick
Chez geek
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