With three weeks to go to reach the goal of $20,000 on Kickstarter, it’s not clear if the card game created by Lancaster, Pennsylvania-based design firm The Infantree will see the light of day. That would be a shame, since the game for two to four participants that plays in 20-45 minutes seems at least mildly amusing, providing as it does ‘a humorous commentary on the unpredictable events of the creative industry.’ It’s true that the laffs are a mile a minute these days, despite AIGA’s recent confidence index for creatives dropping slightly in the third quarter of 2013. But let’s all sing that timeless refrain from the Depression of the 1930s while we wait for the return of Clinton-era prosperity: Just around the corner, there’s a rainbow in the sky, so let’s have another cup of coffee, and let’s have another piece of pie.
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