Meet The Influencers In One Billion Users, The Social Media Card Game
from the back-us-on-kickstarter dept
As you likely know by now, we are running a Kickstarter to fund the release of One Billion Users, our new card game about building the biggest and best social media network. Earlier this week, Mike wrote about the game’s roots in Touring and Mille Bornes and explained some of the new mechanics we’ve added, including the concept of Influencers who move around between the competing social networks and bring their audiences with them. Today, I want to introduce you to just a few of them.
The Investor
Some Influencers just want to chase the biggest possible audience, and The Investor is one of them. You know the type: brimming with advice on how to get rich, and often a lot of other opinions too, which attracts followers who aren’t the most toxic in the world of social media, but hardly the least toxic either.
The Trendsetter
Other Influencers go in the opposite direction, like The Trendsetter, who likes to stay fresh by joining the platform that has the fewest users — with a large and unproblematic following in tow. In the game, this card can serve as a catch-up mechanic when a player is falling behind, but is also a prime target for a well-timed Push card (which allows a player to steal an Influencer).
The Contrarian
Not all Influencers make their decision based on audience size. Some are interested in other things, like The Contrarian, who loves to debate (productively or… otherwise) and thus prefers the network with the most toxic, combative environment. Since The Contrarian’s loyal fanbase is itself pretty toxic, this card threatens to make things worse for players who let their platform’s toxicity get out of hand.
The Troll
And then there’s The Troll, who is a different kind of “influencer”. Rather than bringing a following, The Troll operates alone, counting as only one user (which can do nothing more than break certain rare ties) and yet massively increasing the toxicity of a platform. And since they like to cause as much trouble as possible, they always target the biggest network. A player who is ahead in the race for Users, but struggling to keep Toxicity under control, might find themselves constantly trying to swat away The Troll.
These are only half of the Influencers — in the game you’ll also find The Explainer, The Star, The Foodie and The Comedian. If you want to meet them all, be sure to back our campaign on Kickstarter and secure your copy of One Billion Users.
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This is failing
It looks like you are unlikely to meet your very, very low funding goal of $50k.
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Lots of time yet.
How much did you kick in?
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Daww, you’re so mad there’s no “The dipshit” card with your stupid face on it.
Prefers to piss down its own leg while it says it’s raining.
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Yup! It’s entirely possible that it won’t make that goal!
If that’s the case we won’t mass produce it. That’s kind of the point of Kickstarter. This isn’t “failing” in any meaningful way. The point of using Kickstarter was to see if there was demand before we went to produce it. If there’s not, then we move on. No big deal either way.
And, no, $50k is not “very, very low.” It’s pretty high compared to most games in this category, and we set it that high on purpose, such that we’d only go into mass production on it if it had enough traction to be worth it. If there isn’t enough demand then, cool, we move on and don’t have to go through the production process. The cool thing about Kickstarter is that it lets you test the market like this.
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I’m familiar with kickstarter and how it works (a lot more familiar than you are with section 230, for instance). Yes, $50k is pretty low. Yes, it would be unusual fail that.
No one is buying your shitte anymore.
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Nice gaslighting attempt, Matt. You do know we can just look up campaigns on Kickstarter to see if you’re correct, right?
I just looked at the first 30 card game entries. The most common amounts were $1000 – $1500, some around $5k or $7k, and a few at about $10k; One was at $50k (oh wait, that’s One Billion Users!); and one was $100k (with no backers).
No one is buying your bullshit claims.
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Lol, rofl. “best in class”
Nevermind, you wouldn’t get it. MM did, tho.
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Oh, burn! I’ll have to tell the teacher after recess you were mean to me.
Shitposter
Do shitposters fall within the Comedian’s domain?
Do politicians fall within the Star’s domain?
The Fashionista? Is this still a word that’s in common use?
Not sure how this would play out, but perhaps something for public services? Or the news? Perhaps these are represented by other mechanics in the game, or because they are likely to have a presence on most major platforms they don’t meet the concept of influencer.