GOOD
BALL

A solo and co-op card game where one defender holds the line against everything else in the candy aisle.

Where defense is the mechanic, not the theme

Working title · A concept by Pamplemoose Games

Your founding story
already has a villain.

Good Candy started with a group of dads flipping bags over in the candy aisle and hating what they read. That aisle is the antagonist in your own origin story. In August you added a co-founder whose entire job is stopping people from getting where they want to go. Those two facts, laid on top of each other, are a game.

So the game gets built out of what you already are. No borrowed world, no mascot invented to justify a license.

Three lanes. Four rows.
One defender.

Junk candy pours down the aisle in three lanes. You hold it back with your squad, and you hunt the quarterback calling the plays.

Red zone reads two ways here. The football one, and the color on the back of the bag.

A turn takes about ninety seconds.

The Spy Rule.

Every turn you want two things that fight each other. Hold all three lanes, and get through one of them.

That single decision carries the whole game. It is why a defense game has offense in it.

Your gummies play defense.

Drawn in the rubber hose style already printed on your bags. Three card families, one shared species.

The MikeThe hero. Every flavor at once, because he plays every position.

Omahard CandyThe quarterback. Never moves, never hurries, calls every play.

RotundoWatermelon defensive line. Nothing gets through him.

Every flavor is a squad.

Three defenders per flavor, slotted by size. Same three slots every time, and each flavor builds its bodies a completely different way.

Blue Razz · one body, scaling up

Grape · a bunch, multiplying: three, six, ten

Watermelon · a fraction of the melon: wedge, half, whole

Nothing structural hangs on the flavor lineup. A new flavor ships a new squad and nothing already printed changes. Squads can ride along as bag inserts or small boosters, which makes your launch calendar the game's release calendar.

The junk runs itself.

Nobody plays the bad guys. The junk deck flips, the quarterback calls a play, and the whole offense obeys it. That is what makes this a game you can play alone or with your kid on the same side of the table.

Running back

Wide receiver

Tight end

Quarterback

Play call

Play call

The tight end is the interesting one. Each turn he chooses whether he is advancing or blocking, so one of your three lanes is always a question you cannot answer before you commit.

One box. Three difficulties.

The rules never change. The junk deck does. That means a seven year old and their dad play the same game on the same table without anyone pretending.

Co-op is the default second mode. Two people splitting a bag and splitting a defense is the same feeling.

The window is open right now.

Micah arrives described as an athlete, a gamer, and a dad. A card game sits on all three at once, and it is the one piece of merchandise that gets played instead of worn.

The concept is done.
The game isn't, yet.

One more thing worth saying out loud. The junk candy in this game are cartoon idiots and the tone stays there. Nobody gets lectured about sugar, including you, because your own copy is careful about that and we would keep it that way.

You own Good Candy.
We design it.

Every character, name, and piece of art created for this becomes yours. The brand, the flavors, the gummies on the bag, all of it stays where it already is. We bring the design work and hand over the finished thing.

This is already the start
of a character universe.

Sixteen characters exist now. They share a species, a construction rule, a naming grammar, and two factions that read apart at a glance. That is more than a card game needs. It is roughly what a brand world starts with.

The card game stands on its own and does not need any of this. But if you want the bigger version, we would rather build it with you from the start than bolt it on later.

Two designers who do
exactly this.

Zack Howe and Cole Beardsley. We take a brand, a world, or an idea, and turn it into a card game that came out of the thing itself.

Money is a conversation, and it comes after you decide whether you like the game.

Twenty minutes,
and we walk you through a turn.

If it clicks, we build the prototype. If your gut says this is not for Good Candy, that is a completely fair answer and we would rather hear it early.

Zack Howe & Cole Beardsley · Pamplemoose Games · zack@pamplemoosegames.com

Concept pitch prepared by Pamplemoose Games LLC for Good Candy. All Good Candy brand assets, names, and imagery appear solely to demonstrate this concept and remain the property of their owners. Junk candy characters are original parody creations and reference no existing product. Game mechanics and designs are original work of Pamplemoose Games LLC. Concept art only; final art would be commissioned. AI never touches the game design. Not for distribution.