Farplace Animal Rescue is an animal rescue charity that also grants grants to small rescue groups. Game designer Gareth Edwards founded it.
Farplace has a Kickstarter campaign about cats and poo to raise money for the charity. They’ve done this before, helping to rescue animals in the Ukraine, the UK, France and Romania. You can see progress and clean-out litter trays on the pitch page.
The Kickstarter video pitch is a full demo by a reviewer of the Litter Tray prototype.
In essence, you let your army of cats fill up litter trays with poop until you dare not risk a mess. It’s a push-your-luck game, and that feels in keeping with the theme.
Weirdly, though, it’s the player with the most poo at the end of the game who wins. If only life was like that.
Different cats are played either from a small hand or from the top of a blind deck, dice rolled and how much and where the poo is decided. A litter scoop token is one use but can keep you in the game.
Backers get a copy of the game for the low price of £6 and that seems incredible.
Two copies of the game are available for £12, and I might just do that; poop for me and a second for a good half-joke half-sincere birthday gift for an as-yet-to-be-decided friend.
At £30, backers get Litter Tray and the original Farplace The Game board game. Alternatively, £30 could also unlock all the previous card games such as Dungeon Days.
Then at £40 the rewards become a copy of Litter Tray, Farplace the Game and its expansions.
The higher tiers have more restrictive shipping, but £55 gets backers to all Farplace games. £120 isn’t marked retailer only but does get you 40 copies of the game!
The estimated delivery of the Litter Tray tray is in November, and the Kickstarter runs until September 14th.
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