Foul Play
A downloadable goose-playing game
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⭐ Honorable mention for the Gold Explorer Award ⭐
Be a naughty little goose
In this pick-up-and-play roleplaying game, 2-4 mischievous geese are out to ruin someone’s day. Scratch that: everyone’s day.
- Play as one of four spite-fueled birds—Shifty, Rowdy, Phony or Chonky—each with their own unique way to wreak havoc.
- Annoy your victims and evade your rivals by misusing a measure of items: Spray people with the hose! Distract them with the radio!
- Players sneak, honk, charm, and scrap—all in their pursuit of some spiteful little goal: Steal a jar of juicy jam, or humiliate the hipster that looked at you the wrong way.
- Easy setup: play either out of the booklet, or by using the 20-card print-at-home deck.
Physical Edition
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Looking for more locations to ruin?
Check out the submissions to the Foul Play Location Jam!
Purchase
In order to download this goose-playing game you must purchase it at or above the minimum price of $3 USD. You will get access to the following files:
Development log
- Relaunch: Foul Play digital zine available nowAug 01, 2023
- Off to a start!Jul 01, 2023
Comments
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Hello! Question for you: There's two #3 cards for Blowback. Is it just an accidental extra duplicate or is there a #4 Blowback card?
O look at that. That's confusing. Don't mind it, it's indeed a duplicate.
Hello, I love this little game. I had a lot of fun playing! Do you think it would be possible to offer a print option that can be folded like a mini zine?
https://www.readbrightly.com/how-to-make-zine/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBGm85tw_3g
it already has 8 pages per print paper, it just needs to be ordered and flipped correctly for it.
Hi Derpy! I'm so glad you had fun with our geese. I see what you mean, but we really like our deck of cards! Feel free to bash something together your own use, of course. (I can see about a printer-friendly version of the booklet though, if that is of any help?)
I did mean print option to be able to print at home. :)
You meant adapt the sheets of cards to fit the eight page mini-zine format, right? I'm propsing to release a black-and-white version of the A5 booklet.
Yes I was.
That would also be great.
Congrats on the Slugblaster shoutout!
Thanks! I'm still a little flabbergasted, but it's so cool how many people have found the game since.
Hi! I just bought the print and play, I have doubt about the cards. Are they all just one side or should I paste some of them together? And… can I buy an extra file for the card box I see in the photo for the physical version?
Hi Luciana! Thanks for asking. You only need to cut out all the cards of the print-at-home deck. No further assembly is required.
I'll look into putting up a blueprint for the box. It closed with velcro, which is not that DIY friendly—so we're hesitant.
A crackerjack premise, brilliantly executed.
Easy to learn, evocative, and fun as heck. My players really enjoyed being teribble geese.
Played an absolute blinder of a game which ended up with the horrible geese burning down the community gardens! We ended up with eighteen out of ten honks, which just goes to show how much goosery you can get up to.
The most fun you can have being a terrible goose. Yes, even more than that OTHER goose game.