Cards Against Reality is a recreation of Cards Against Humanity inside of Resonite made by Zenuru. The main tray item, which facilitates gameplay, is public and can be found in the following folder: resrec:///U-Zenuru/R-8DCCED4DD5C7ACD23E4CCBE0EDE7F12CEFE10D9002C48EA53E5D700BB60CD037
In addition to the card tray, you can also find the official Cards Against Humanity Game Rules document, as well as an instructional "README" and changelog in the folder linked above.
Loading card decks
At the time of writing, no public card pack/deck items exist. The primary method of loading cards in bulk is by converting them to a TSV format using a script, then use the Protoflux included with the tray item to generate cards from that input. In the future, official Cards Against Humanity decks and expansion packs, as well as some third-party packs, will be packaged as spawnable items in the Cards Against Reality folder linked above.
Automatic card conversion
You can use some Python scripts (with instructions) written by Zenuru to convert JSON files downloaded from either CRCast or JSON Against Humanity.
Manual card conversion
Make a spreadsheet file where each row has the following columns:
| Card type (number) | Card text (string) | Pack name (string) |
|---|
Card type must be one of the following:
- 0: Implicit pick-one black card
- 1: Explicit pick-one black card (Some third-party black cards use multiple spaces but want the same white card read multiple times)
- 2: Pick two
- 3: Draw two pick three
- 4: White card
The difference between implicit and explicit pick-one is that the explicit variant shows "PICK 1" on the card, while implicit shows nothing.
Playing the game
Once cards are loaded to the deck, a [🔀 Shuffle] button will appear. Click it to perform the initial deck shuffle. When the cards are done shuffling, use the [✋ Draw hand] button in the center of the UI to spawn a personal hand of cards and draw 10 cards into it. While cards are in your personal hand, only you can read them. For everyone else, they appear as ???
On the top and bottom of the UI are a [🔀 Shuffle decks] and [📥 Insert to bottom/top] button respectively. Clicking the insert to bottom/top button will switch whether cards dropped onto the tray are placed on the top or bottom of the stack. The direction of the arrow in the icon represents which option is currently selected.
From there, play the game like you would with physical cards! There are no special mechanics or interactions, just grab cards and treat them like a real deck. Have the cardzar pick and read a black card, then have all the other players pick white card(s) and place them near the cardzar. To keep track of scores, have the winning player of a round take the black card and hold on to it since it represents a point. Don't forget to replenish your personal card hand back up to 10 cards by grabbing new white cards off of the tray.
Wednesday Night Cards
Looking for some critters to play with? Every Wednesday Evening (in American time zones), Zenuru hosts a public Cards Against Reality session. The session for mature (18+) audiences only, but all explicit/NSFW content (except for the cards in play) is prohibited. See the table below to figure out when the session starts in your time zone.
| Eastern | Central | Mountain | Pacific | CEST |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8:30 PM | 7:30 PM | 6:30 PM | 5:30 PM | 02:30 |
When the time begins, you may join the public "Cards Against Reality" session. There is no set end time, meaning the game keeps going so long as there are players. On average, they last between 3 to 4 hours.