Since I have never be a card game player, I've wondered that many times myself. This card game was purely an accident that happened while I was working on an educational game to play with my 4 year old son. Most kids games that are out there, are designed for kids to play with other kids. The games are so dumbed down that it never keeps the parents engaged. So I wanted to come up with a game that is not only fun and educational for my son, but it is equally fun for me when I play with him.
After a few days and couple of iterations, to my surprise, I started to realize that developing a kids card game is not an easy task as i had initially thought. Too many variables go into making a game. I was almost about to fall over. I wanted to say FUCK IT.... I stared at the cards scattered on the table and yelled FUCK U. I even scribbled that on the back of few cards. It felt good. Almost like the word "FUCK" has a therapeutic effect to take all the burden off.
Since I had made up mind to quit the kids game, I felt less stressed and I started to have more fun scribbling on those cards. I was watching "Burn After Reading" that night and I picked up the word 'Cluster Fuck' from that movie and scribbled it on another card. I guess the FUCKU card game was in the making...
With some really funny and popular fuck phrases and a simple goal to win (to be the first to make F-U-C-K-U sequence) I had a roughly designed game and a deck printed on my HP printer.
I would go to local bars and approach random tables to play test this game. I would take notes on play time, reactions, moods, how they felt after playing, rules etc... I incorporated feedback and the game got better and better after each play test. People who were play testing were enjoying it even more and having blast of a time and I was enjoying the whole process of developing this game. While all this was happening I still did not have slightest inclination to make a professional deck out of it.
When I started getting pre-orders for FUCKU decks from play testers I knew this game was ready for more people to enjoy. I printed 2,000 decks as limited edition and I have sold a few hundreds.
Though this game was an accident, it was developed with a lot of passion and love... with a goal to help everyone who plays the game to forget any worries, lighten up and have a blast.
I hope you will enjoy playing this game as much I enjoyed developing it . If you know someone who will like this game, please don't hesitate to spread some FUCK'N love.
HB AKA (The FMan)