Designer(s) Elan Lee Publisher(s) The Oatmeal Genre(s) Card game | Illustrator(s) Matthew Inman Publication date June 2017 Language(s) English | |
Bears vs Babies is a card game created by Elan Lee and Matthew Inman, who also created Exploding Kittens. Inman is also the founder of the website The Oatmeal.
Contents
Gameplay
The deck consists of two types of cards: bears and babies. Bears are built; they come in the form of heads, torsos, arms and legs. The player can connect the cards where they fit to form an army of creatures in front of them. Babies are played immediately into the center of the table. They form a baby army, which must be stopped by the players bear creatures. War is initiated by provoking the babies with a provoke card. The babies attack all of the players' creatures at once. The player wins or loses the round based on the strength of their creature compared to the strength of the baby horde. Strength is determined by the number of cards. A baby army of three cards will lose to a creature built of three or more cards, vice versa. The main strategy is to provoke the baby army before your opponents' creatures are strong enough to win. There are additional cards in the deck to help the player strengthen their army, or attack the others players' creatures. These cards consist of Hats, tools, and weapons. The winner is determined by the player that has (b)eaten the most babies.
Background
Although it is the second game released by Lee and Inman, Bears vs Babies's earliest stages date back to 2012. Lee told VentureBeat in an October 2016 interview that they began working on the game together within two weeks of the initial shipments of Exploding Kittens.
Kickstarter
Proposed as a Kickstarter project seeking $10,000 USD in crowdfunding, it far exceeded the goal within the first day of the campaign. The campaign is running from October 18, 2016 until November 17, 2016, and is currently more than 25643% funded with over 68,000 backers on November 15, 2016 at 1 PM CET.
As the project is already funded, the backers can expect to receive their delivery in June 2017.