About Hooza

The Game Lore: "You are a raccoon. But it’s a hard life, being a raccoon. You have to eat trash, fight cats and dogs, and deal with rabies. All while maintaining your rascally-cute charm, which is actually really, really difficult to pull off. People don’t give you enough credit for that. 

Then you have an idea. You will escape this hard life by opening a restaurant! (As smart as you are, you are just naive little critter.)

But there are three problems. 

The first is that every other raccoon has the same idea, and there’s only enough room for ONE restaurant in this town. 

The second is that you don’t have all the trash you need— you’ll need to trade with your rivals! 

And the third is that all raccoons, including yourself, are cheats. 

So you must trade, you must lie, you must accuse; you must discover hooza liar, hooza fool, and — finally— hooza winner."

 

The real life story of Hooza:

I was the self-appointed social chair for my school newspaper (go Badger Herald!) and part of my self-appointed duties was creating party games. Among them was Cheerio Chomp, Extreme Bingo, and Hooza. 

Cheerio Chomp and Extreme Bingo are a little too wild to play regularly. But Hooza was fun. In its first version, players just traded cards to get 4 of a kind, all at once. But then one player (Aiden) kept breaking the rules and lying about what card he was giving me, and that's pretty much how Hooza started. 

Although Hooza is a game where you lie to friends and strangers, its secret purpose is to bring people together. Right now Hooza is just a prototype of a party game, but I dream that one day anybody, anywhere, can walk into a bar and play hooza and meet some cool folks. 

But first, I need to make it a party game. And before that, I need crowdfunding to make my first big order :P

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Thanks,

Phoenix