Cite Your Sources!
Cite Your Sources is a party game for 3-6 players. You need to convince your friends to take your side on the real issues of our time, including how to pronounce ".gif" and whether cats or dogs make better pets. No arguments can stand alone, though - once per round, your competitor can demand to see a source, and whatever that source ends up being, you have to work it in. Socrates? Gandhi? Colbert? All possibilities. The judge awards a point to the best argument, and after everyone debates twice, the person with the most points wins.
Made in a day for the Extra Credits "passage" jam. My original idea was dramatically over-scoped and honestly didn't have a whole lot to do with the theme, so I had to revert to my backup. I think it turned out pretty well, all things considered.
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I just want to mention that the way I ended up playing this game, since I was by myself, was to use the "oregon trail method" of filling in all the player names with fictional characters. In this case it was Persona 5. If you have any familiarity with Persona 5, I hope you will find these screenshots as hilarious as I did. If not, well, let's just say this game doubles as a good headcanon fanfic generator one can play as a single-player experience.
I watched a roommate get through Persona 5 off and on, so while I'm not suuuuuper familiar, I love the idea of Ryuji getting super defensive about pineapple on his pizza while Yusuke insists he has no taste.
Really cool concept for a party game that could actually work really well at an actual party with the arguments and quotes printed on cards.
Personally, I already love arguing why X is better than Y with stupid arguments and do it all the time, so gamifying that with the added rule to include a specifc quote only makes it better.