Critter Fluxx: The Unofficial Official Endangered Species Card Game!


Do you like critters? Do you like card games? Would you like to learn more about endangered animals and how you can help them through a competitive yet educational means? Introducing…CRITTER FLUXX!

Inspired by Looney Labs’ vast series of Fluxx games, Critter Fluxx takes the basic template of the “Card Game With Ever-Changing Rules” and focuses on endangered species and how YOU can help them, aiming to foster not just competition but education in the process! Printed on Forest Stewardship Council-certified recyclable cardstock, Critter Fluxx consists of cards separated into Keepers, Creepers, New Rules, Goals, and Actions. These different card types affect the game’s progress differently, either helping or harming you, other players, or everyone playing! Just follow the specific instructions on each card to play them and see how the game progresses!
 

Looney Labs | Board Game Publisher | BoardGameGeek

Confused? Visit Looney Labs’ website for an overview of Fluxx!


Will you gather the requisite Keeper cards to win the Goal in play, or will the dangers of bycatch foil your plans? Will you draw 4 cards and play 2 or draw 2 and play 4? How will you use the Action cards to further your chances of winning? Beware the Creepers! You cannot win with them! Will the rules suddenly revert to Basic or will the Ungoal abruptly end the game for everyone? Everything can change at the play of a card in Critter Fluxx!

                                     Children not learning enough environmental science in America's lackluster schools (Funk & Goo 2015)? Critter Fluxx can teach all about endangered animals and the threats they face, how Hunting, Deforestation, and Disease harm species, the confidence to Advocate or Volunteer to save animals in need, and how environmental communication elements such as Agenda Setting and Apocalyptic Rhetoric work!

Got friends or family who don't agree with the game's politics? Maybe player groups contain both liberal Democrats and conservative Republicans? Watch as Critter Fluxx bridges the environmental partisan divide by making players who don't agree with certain things support them through winning the game (Anderson 2017)! 

 In testing, players initially found some cards confusing until they gained a better understanding of, and the process of communicating, the issues the cards represented. Once players comprehend the intricacies of Critter Fluxx, the game reveals the depressing realities about conservation of endangered species and becomes more than a game. 

Rating of challenges to environmental conservation | Download ...This game proved extremely hard to win in test rounds. Many species are severely threatened by anthropogenic actions such as pollution, deforestation, overfishing, and disease. These endangered animals need our help now more than ever, as they are not just the most important environmental issue to me, but also critical to ecosystems and the general function of the world. Therefore, the difficulty of winning Critter Fluxx is purposeful, meant to symbolize the interconnected complexities of endangered species conservation itself.

Like an actual Fluxx game, Critter Fluxx starts out simple, but becomes increasingly complex as cards are played, rules change, and goals are suddenly altered. More elements will work against the very creatures that need to be saved in the game than for them, reflecting the immense real-world challenge of protecting them in a world mined for unsustainable use.

The 'Theatre' of Wildlife Decimation | IWBAs the game continues, you will see why certain cards impact the game in certain ways, why the deck contains more negative cards than positive ones, and ultimately why the game is so difficult to win. Can one win? Yes, as testing proved, but the road to winning is fraught with obstacles that may never be fully overcome in the real world.

The conservation battle is a game played all across Earth, and the hands are stacked against you.

Learn how to play and download the cards for Critter Fluxx!

Use password "boopthesnoot"
                                                                                                               
                                      References

 Card info from World Wildlife Fund

Card images from Google

Blog images from Google and taken on my phone

Printed by FedEx Office Print & Ship Center, 5225 Wisconsin Ave NW, Washington, DC 20015

Anderson, M. (2017, April 20). For Earth Day, here’s how Americans view environmental issues. Retrieved May 6, 2020, from https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/04/20/for-earth-day-heres-how-americans-view-environmental-issues/

Funk, C., & Goo, S. K. (2015, September 10). What Americans know and don't know about science. Retrieved May 6, 2020, from https://www.pewresearch.org/science/2015/09/10/what-the-public-knows-and-does-not-know-about-science/ 

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