hatman: HatMan, my alter ego and face on the 'net (HatMan)hatman ([personal profile] hatman) wrote in [community profile] scans_daily,
@ 2010-07-17 04:28 am UTC
Entry tags:char: the tick
From The Tick (New Series) #4. It's board game night at Arthur's place. (Outside, unnoticed, an epic underwater battle is taking place in the flooded streets of The City as all sorts of wacky parody creatures fight for dominance of the world's oceans.) As our heroes discuss which board game to play, Tick proposes his favorite - CONFECTIONER TYCOON!

Behold the majesty of a board game of the Tick's own creation:



Someone make this already! I want to play!

(Only one existing - and woefully underused - tag seems to fit, and I know we're near, if not already at, the limit, so I left off a few. Possibilities for del.icio.us, if you feel like it - publisher: new england comics, title: the tick, char: arthur, char: bumbling bee, title: the tick)


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freezer: (Kasumi)


[personal profile] freezer
2010-07-17 09:00 am UTC (link)
So basically... Cake Tycoon: The Board Game?

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hatman: HatMan, my alter ego and face on the 'net (HatMan)


[personal profile] hatman
2010-07-17 09:05 am UTC (link)
If, by that, you mean Cake Mania, then... No. Not really.

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icon_uk: (Sonny Strait Nightwing)


[personal profile] icon_uk
2010-07-17 09:11 am UTC (link)
I have no idea what Candyland is beyond the fact it's an American boardgame. It was certainly never a seller over here when I was young, or even now come to that, but it looks like it would have been a little too twee for my tastes,,, ever.

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[personal profile] jlbarnett
2010-07-17 11:40 am UTC (link)
well it is designed for little kids

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hatman: HatMan, my alter ego and face on the 'net (HatMan)


[personal profile] hatman
2010-07-17 12:49 pm UTC (link)
It's supposed to be. As mentioned in the reply above, it's for little kids. As in 3-year-olds. It's candy - all sweet, no substance. On par with Chutes & Ladders or Hi-Ho Cherry-O.

You roll the dice, move the correct number of squares, maybe (but usually not) follow a single special instruction (go back three spaces or what have you), and then wait for your turn to come around again.

Still, it's a classic. Fun when you're that age. And, if you did spend hours playing it with friends at that age, then it can bring a brief nostalgic smile to your face years later.

Which is why it's perfect that Tick is so obsessed with it as to have remade at least two other (somewhat more grown-up) board games in its image.

There's just something about the mixed-up childish glee here. Monopoly has been redone more times than I can count, but this is the first time I've actually seen it improved.

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fleur_de_liz: (adorable booster is adorable)


[personal profile] fleur_de_liz
2010-07-17 06:38 pm UTC (link)
Candyland is even simpler than that. No dice involved. On your turn, you pick up a card, and it has a colored square on it. You move to that colored square. If there are two colored squares, you move ahead two squares of that color (i.e., two purple squares).

Sometimes there are cards with characters on them, and you move either forward to the character square or backward to it, depending on where on the board you are. Sometimes you get "stuck" on a square and have to draw cards until you get a color match and can move again.

I once babysat a kid who cheated at Candyland.

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darklorelei: (pic#431086)


[personal profile] darklorelei
2010-07-17 11:41 pm UTC (link)
I totally cheated at Candyland when I was 3-4. NO SHAME.

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fleur_de_liz: (adorable booster is adorable)


[personal profile] fleur_de_liz
2010-07-18 02:50 am UTC (link)
This kid was like eight.

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cainofdreaming: b/w (pic#364828)


[personal profile] cainofdreaming
2010-07-17 03:51 pm UTC (link)
I'm rather intrigued by this stabbing and setting on fire idea. I think I'll steal it and market it under the name "Care Bears' Happy Fun Hour."

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blake_reitz: (pic#370899)


[personal profile] blake_reitz
2010-07-17 05:05 pm UTC (link)
I like the scratched out attemtpts to spell "licorice."

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[personal profile] jlbarnett
2010-07-17 08:31 pm UTC (link)
so... just thinking here... if someone tried to suggest this as a kids game called Candopoly would they own money to the writer?

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silverzeo: (pic#368449)


[personal profile] silverzeo
2010-07-18 12:41 am UTC (link)
I think the AVGN has something like it.

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[personal profile] psychopathicus_rex
2010-07-18 04:16 am UTC (link)
I feel for ya, Tick ol' buddy - the innovators are always the ones to suffer. I had similar problems when I invented a version of chess that incorporates playing cards - I still think it was brilliant, but I couldn't get anyone to play it.

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icon_uk: (Sonny Strait Nightwing)


[personal profile] icon_uk
2010-07-18 07:16 pm UTC (link)
Innovation is fine, something quite so completely derivative... not so much.

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[personal profile] psychopathicus_rex
2010-07-18 10:24 pm UTC (link)
I take umbrage at that! It wasn't derivative, it was a whole new game! True, it was still basically chess, but it added an element of luck to the proceedings that made things much more dramatic - ones whole strategy could change at the pull of a card; you needed to be able to think fast. I'm still proud of that game, dammit. *sulks*

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icon_uk: (Sonny Strait Nightwing)


[personal profile] icon_uk
2010-07-18 10:29 pm UTC (link)
It was "Confectioner Tycoon" I was referring to, rather than your chess related notion.

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[personal profile] psychopathicus_rex
2010-07-18 10:35 pm UTC (link)
Oh - OK. Excuse my oversensitivity.

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valtyr: (Pajamas of death)


[personal profile] valtyr
2010-07-26 09:55 pm UTC (link)
Pretty sure that was marketed as Knightmare Chess. I played it a good ten years ago.

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[personal profile] psychopathicus_rex
2010-07-26 11:14 pm UTC (link)
Question - did this 'Knightmare Chess' use original cards, or the standard ones that you'd play 'go fish' with?

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strangething: Twilight Sparkle, from My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic (Twilight)


[personal profile] strangething
2010-08-16 12:59 am UTC (link)
There was an official Tick board game, as a tie-in to the cartoon. It's weird.

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hatman: HatMan, my alter ego and face on the 'net (HatMan)


[personal profile] hatman
2010-08-17 02:38 am UTC (link)
But is it a good weird? I remember there was a video game released as a tie-in to that cartoon, and it was... incredibly monotonous. Found pictures and instructions, but... doesn't really give a sense of playing the game. Ah well. Still, cool to know about it. Maybe I'll get/find it one of these days. Thanks. :)

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