At a communal Friendsgiving party two years ago, I played a prototype of a card game called Pitch, Please! and it was so much fun I interrogated the artist/game creator Carolyn Main afterward about where I could get such a game. At the time, Main was about a third of the way through conceptualizing and making the cards that comprise Pitch, Please!’s game deck. Now, FINALLY, her Kickstarter is upon us. Starting Monday, June 5, she began to raise the funds she’ll need to print and ship the decks to fans and game lovers around the world! (The world? She swears she worked out the math.)
Pitch, Please! benefits from Main’s talent as an artist—her illustrations and comics have frequently appeared in the Mercury—as well as her humor. In her own words, Main has “identified and illustrated 52 movie clichés—like Vaguely European Super Villain, Sexy Hackers, Sport Dog” on cards that players draw from to create one-minute elevator pitches for imaginary movies. Pitch, Please! is heavily reliant on cleverness, but could be won with sexiness, camp, or just plain gross-out factor/wrongness.