Turns Out Lots Of People Want To Play The CIA's Card Game
from the collect-it-all dept
Well, it appears we can both confirm and acknowledge that lots and lots of people want to play the CIA's in-house training card game. As we announced on Monday, we've taken the available details of the internal CIA game Collection Deck, and are in the process of turning it a version you can actually play, which we're renaming CIA: Collect It All. To see if anyone else actually wanted it, we put it on Kickstarter and set what we thought was a fairly high bar: $30,000. And yet, we hit that in about 40 hours and we still more than three and a half weeks to go. We're a bit blown away by how many people are interested, and we're committed to making the game as awesome as we can possibly make it. We recently posted an update to the campaign concerning questions around international shipping, since that's been a big topic of conversation, so if you're interested in that, go check it out.
Either way, thanks to all of you who quickly jumped in and backed the campaign (and told others about it). As we've noted in the campaign, the idea here is to do this as a one shot deal, not to keep making the game. So, while anyone can download the FOIA'd release of the rules and make your own, if you want one of our versions, you'll need to back this campaign.
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https://www.copyright.gov/help/faq/faq-general.html
And don't think that living in another country is any protection. as the DMCA has been enforced in Australia, the UK, and perhaps other countries that arrest their citizens and ship them off to U.S. prisons for something that may not even be a crime in their own country.
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I have the Hunt for El Chapo game on my computer, maybe I should put that one together?
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Anonymous Coward, 25 Apr 2018 @ 10:19pm This game will be available for free right? I don’t feel like paying for the Kickstarter but I want the game, so you’re going to let me have it, right?
The FOIA files are free for everyone. Have at it. Isn't the public domain wonderful?
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It'd be great if you helped enlarge it. Maybe voluntarily limit your copyright length on the polished game?
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Why do you want a card game if you can't read?
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'So... check our site often?'
That might be a tad awkward, given who it originally came from.
As we announced on Monday, we've taken the available details of the internal CIA game Collection Deck, and are in the process of turning it a version you can actually play, which we're renaming CIA: Collect It All.
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restriction to US
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