"I originally saw this game as having turns, but as soon as we started
play-testing it I realized it needed to be a realtime game. I love games without
turns - the entire Looney Pyramids system began with my vision
for a game without turns, which became the first game for the system,
Icehouse. I was inspired to go turnless again with another
Pyramid game called IceTowers, but otherwise
it's not a concept I've used very much. Then again, it's always a challenge to
make turnlessness work; one of my favorites is James Ernest's game
Falling, but there are very few realtime games on the market.
Anyway, as soon as we started playtesting, it became obvious that this was a
game that needed to be turnless."
"Loonacy features 30 Keeper images - several from each themed
version of Fluxx. But my original version was more like
original Fluxx - I used the same set of Keepers as appear in
basic Fluxx, plus a few other random choices. But as
playtesting continued we decided it would be more fun to choose a few favorite
images from every version of the game. We pulled all the Keepers out of every
version and dealt them all out on the floor of our new office suite, and
everyone voted on their faves.""Loonacy is set to be published on March 28, 2014, which is just 9-months after I started building my first prototype. We fast-tracked this game into production, which made some of my unpublished game designs that I've been sitting on for years quite jealous, but this was a no-brainer. Everyone who plays it loves it - we definitely have another hit on our hands!"
-Andy Looney, founder of Looney Labs and creator of Loonacy
Loonacy is a rapid-fire, maniacal matching card
game where players race to be the first to empty their hand of seven cards by
matching one of two images with the images on the open piles in front of
them!
Speed of the hand and luck of the draw determine the winner in
this frenzied free-for-all! Plays great with 2 to 5 players and features images
from all of your favorite Fluxx games.
