Frank Carter announces new card game ‘Halves’
nme.comCarter & Richardson, the minds behind Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes, have launched a Kickstarter campaign for a new card game called Halves.Halves utilises the player’s “superior intellect” to win points by guessing the word on their opponent’s card and stopping the opponent from guessing theirs.
An arsenal of Trap cards designed to “deceive, disrupt and derail” players adds a twist to the game, and it’s described as “unfun for all the family”.During Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes’ first tour in 2016, Frank Carter and Dean Richardson came up with Halves on a plane to Ireland.
They’ve been perfecting it ever since, alongside releasing four critically acclaimed albums, touring the world as headliners and supporting the likes of massive acts such as Foo Fighters and Biffy Clyro alongside Richardson’s work as a graphic designer and Carter’s tattoo shop, Rose of Mercy.On the creation of Halves, Richardson said: “We sat next to each other on the plane and by the time we landed, we had drawn most of what the game is now.
So then we went into WH Smith’s at the airport, bought a deck of actual cards, some kids’ coloured stickers and a Sharpie, and just got full tunnel vision.“I would say 90 per cent of what is in the game now came from that one flight, which is quite a common thing for mine and Frank’s partnership.
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