You can discover it for yourself today. Polygon can exclusively reveal that Never stop inflatingHunters’ Entertainment’s homebrew version Children on bicycles system that Mulligan et al. created is now available for free on the official Dropout store.
“We are not game designers,” Dimension 20 producer Carlos Luna told Polygon via email, “This is not a system that will stand the test of time. You’d be lucky if it lasted an entire session. But I will say that I think this would be a really fun session.
Luna told Polygon that the priority behind the Never stop inflating The rules were more about good television – simplicity, entertainment – than about game balance. But it was all in service of creating “a love letter to all those games we made up on the spot as kids. The things you invented on the spot when you and your friends were bored.
The game was tested twice before production of the season, Luna said, “and those tables were so rowdy and had some of the most insane gameplay. We knew the system would be great for filming. Then we asked for feedback and a game designer suggested adding some rules that would balance the game and slow down the pace. I just remember thinking, ‘That would be such a great and reasonable addition, and I’m sure it would lead to a more balanced and cohesive game, but it would keep us from blowing up and this system gives but for one thing: NEVER STOP BLOWING UP!’”
The free PDF contains rules and descriptions for character creation, skills, group suites, tokens and of course blowing up, and is available now at store.Dropout.tv.
“We’re extremely excited to share the Never Stop Blowing Up system with the world,” game master Brennan Lee Mulligan told Polygon via email, “and we can’t wait to see what everyone does with it!”