Our very first game will be a live Kickstarter campaign soon. Once a launch date is set it will appear on this page.
What is Kickstarter?
Kickstarter is a crowd-funding platform. This means that a community of people can pledge their support to make a project happen. In this case, the project is our hilariously fun game Can’t Go.
What is the game Can’t Go?
Can’t Go is the game of poop, points and pandemonium. In it you will play as an ultra competitive toilet, aiming to be the one to claim four hundred poop points or the most points when one of the two card decks runs out and all players can’t take a turn. It’s a game for between two and six players and is suitable for anyone over eight years old.
How does the game play?
The game is a mix of putting points out onto the table, and then trying to claim them. And also potentially sabotaging others plans, or helping others.
In Can’t Go these two aspects of put down / pick up points make up ‘Pooping turns’ and ‘Finishing turns’.
The game play area has four toilet cubicle cards, with space to their right for cards to be played, along with a water direction card to show the direction of game play.
In Pooping turns players play Poop and Points cards next to one of the four toilet cubicle cards of their choice. Once a poop is finished with an end tip, then Finishing turns begin.
In Finishing turns players try to claim the poop points on offer in the cubicle with the finished poop. In Pooping turns players always draw back to a hand of five cards at the end of their turn. In Finishing turns players do not draw up, so there is a need for strategy to determine whether you try to claim the current poop, or try for a different one later.
What sort of game experience is in store?
Can’t Go is a fun, sometimes frantic game that is an ideal warm-up for a games night, or a one-hit joy on its own.
There are two draw decks of cards in the game; ‘Poop and Points’ and ‘Pandemonium’. The starting hand is a fixed mix of these cards, but as the game progresses each player can choose from either deck. In this way a player can choose whether their hand is weighted towards adding points onto the table, or towards claiming points and creating chaos.
The key unique and potentially chaotic part of the game is when claiming points – Finishing turns – begins. Once a poop is finished with an end tip all players must try and resolve that poop.
If the next player, after the finisher, can’t go, then the person who finished the poops wins the points. But in Can’t Go, if a player plays a card on their turn, then the next player gets a chance to play. If they can’t go, then the finishing turn stops and points are claimed – or other actions are resolved.
The Wipe card is one of the Pandemonium cards, which allows a player to steal the poop in play from the previous player. This is shown in the UKGE show reel video above.
But there are other Pandemonium cards too.
As an example, there is a ‘Stack’ card in the Pandemonium deck. If a player plays this on their finishing turn then all poop points in that cubicle are stacked on top of each other and the Finishing turn ends. Now, there are poop points clogged in the cubicle. When the next poop in that cubicle is won, those clogged points are claimed too.
There are a mix of cards in the Pandemonium deck to ensure that players always have something to do, whether they are winning or losing, whether they want to help other players or sabotage their plans. Tactics change depending on player count too which adds even more fun into the game.
What do players say about it?
Since 2017, when the game design began, it’s been important to gather real, honest feedback. This has been fundamental to develop and refine the game into the chaotic delight that it is today!
Below are a snapshot of the quotes we’ve gathered along the way:
“It’s funny and easy to play” Emily A
“A perfect game to start a gaming session with new friends!” Mark P
“The comedy element – it’s very silly and you end up saying some absurd things” Nicola R
“It reduced a bunch of uni students to children laughing about poop jokes” Alex F
“Pooptastic” Alex C
“Very funny – lots of laughs. Playing flows very well” Gemma
