Monday, August 18, 2014

Drinkline Makes its Debut on My Birthday

My 31st birthday was on Saturday, and even though my 30th was the "last hurrah", I still decided to hold a small party in my favor.  You only get one day a year to celebrate yourself, so I guess you should try to. :)

For my birthday, I invited people to come over to my place to play a game I thought up with my friend Tyler and that I've been creating over the past couple weeks.  It's called "Drinkline" and it's based on the card game Guillotine and is an extension of King's Cup, with some original content and pop culture references thrown in.  The goal is to make it as popular as Cards Against Humanity, so you have some idea of how big I'm dreaming right now.

Before Drinkline was debuted, I got a taco bar catered from Micha's in Tucson.  About 15 people showed up for dinner and luckily I had enough food for everyone without being short or having an excess of leftovers.  Afterwards, it was time to unveil Drinkline!  Here are some examples of the cards: 

Card Backs:
Character Cards (these represent players playing the game):
Drinkling Cards (these move your Character card in the Drinkline):
Action Cards (these are played on other players to get them to drink):
Rule Cards (these are bestowed on other players to get them to act in a funny behavior):
The alpha test group provided a lot of feedback and results.  We played 3 games of Drinkline, altering the game each time and I took down several suggestions.  Already Drinkline v2.0 has been printed and is ready for testing.  I've lined up my friend Sam from college to prepare artwork and designs for the final product.  After a few more test runs with Drinkline, I will eventually get it officially printed and published!

Drinkline is a game created by Andy Lin.  Copyright 2014.

The rest of my birthday was great and about 20 people showed for it.  One of them is this girl named Heather from Phoenix who I've been dating since June.  She's pretty, awesome, and pretty awesome to me.  Thanks to everyone who made it a wonderful birthday!