Parody RPG Fantasy University Targets Serious Facebook Gamers →
Someone’s finally making a pop-culture-oriented and less crass version of Kingdom of Loathing for Facebook.
With an art style created by Tracy Butler, the artist behind the web comic Lackadaisy, and a plot brimming with pop culture references, the game feels like Mad magazine’s take on the fantasy videogame.
When you create your character you can pick between hairstyles that duplicates Gene Simmons’ heavy metal samurai coif or obscure Saturday Night Live character Ed Grimley’s pointed cowlick. The riffs come relentlessly, stuffed in the flavor text and in the many hand-drawn images that illustrate the game. References to H.P. Lovecraft mix with LOLcats, caricatures of megastars like Johnny Depp rub elbows with television microcelebs like Billy Mays.
