Is there a play oracle you’d recommend with
- cards with text on them
- somewhat accessible vocab
- flexibility in use (i.e. not cards with rules text on them or too narrow a scope, so no Dialect/TQY)
It’d need to be easy to pick up without prior knowledge (no tarot). Any tone or theme is fine.
Waiting to hear back from a Thing but once I do I'm gonna post some devlogs I've been queuing up >:)
I've never had so many projects mid-chrysalis at the same time before. Doesn't look like much from outside the cocoons but I promise there's a lot of work happening in there
magenta and teal. both about 3/4 dark value, both maximum saturation.
i love you hand limits. i love you irreplicable miracles. i love you sub-optimal moves. i love you end of the rope actions. i love you imperfect tools. i love you bad cards. i love you characterization arising from doing the best you can with what you have
I thoroughly enjoyed my time playing Spindlewheel, and Sasha is wonderful. I particularly enjoyed the opportunity to look at both sides of each card for inspiration in terms of the communal writing of the story. Looking forward to picking this one up in the near future!
Spindlewheel was a great time, starting with the minigame Detective, which saw us creating an amazing rollercoaster of a crime drama. Also, the worldbuilding potential for those who want a creative boost in designing their next world or even next NPC makes this a great pickup for GMs of all types!
And that's a wrap!
Huge thanks to @22to22.bsky.social for showing off Spindlewheel to @markdc.bsky.social and @twenty20sight.com this evening! That was a really cool session!
Before I continue, here's where you can find the game:
www.teacabbage.com/spindlewheel
Tuesday is for Twitch!
At 5 PM Eastern, join us as @22to22.bsky.social joins @markdc.bsky.social to talk about their tarot-based storytelling game, Spindlewheel! Learn how you can weave together a story from just a deck of cards over on our Twitch channel!
Get into it!!
Ten of swords reversed more like "hey, they can't all be gems"
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i'm looking for a sensitivity consultant with experience/knowledge base wrt limb prosthetics for an upcoming project! happy to compensate for your time with cash or skill trade (illustration, graphic design, layout work, etc.) @ or DM me! :)
A discord screenshot of 22to22 saying "I think maybe this game development was a cognitohazard posing as a monetizable hobby designed to make me crazier"
How it's going:
What's a machine game? Is a book a machine game? It's certainly more machinic than a movie is. But is interpreting a movie through a certain lens machinic? Is this post machinic? Maybe not, but is reading this post machinic? Is asking "is this machinic?" machinic?
less than 48 hours in the spirit swap campaign! we're so close to @crislv.bsky.social working her magic on the zine!
I also talk about Spindlewheel (@teacabbage.bsky.social) and Wickedness (@nightlingbug.bsky.social) and how I'm balancing interpretive storytelling and card/board game elements!
if you have a tumblr do me a favor and vote in this poll. with your heart. whatever that may mean for you www.tumblr.com/22to22/80929...
@teacabbage.bsky.social As it turns out, I wasn't wrong about getting friends introduced to Spindlewheel by sharing my article and my thoughts around!
One thing I heard was "I can't believe I haven't heard of Spindlewheel and the community around it" and I went, I know, right?! What a hidden gem!
This is such a lovely and welcoming overview of Spindlewheel!!
the Fool Spindlewheel card
With perpetual gratitude to @teacabbage.bsky.social for the ongoing inspiration that Spindlewheel has been to me
a card-tree example, lain out in stalks with explanations of what different cards serve as which parts of the tree
Build suited Card-Trees to explore facets of worldbuilding or shared themes that spark interest! Grow the tree over a year of ritualized card-writing seasons.
Then curate the collection you've written together over the winter, deciding which cards are drafted into the deck--and which are composted!
Psst, what's this? A new tabletop roleplaying project from me? It's only been what, three-odd years...
Welcome to GARDENLOOM, a collaborative oracle deck generating game for the whole table!
Compatible with Spindlewheel. Undergoing continued development.
oracle-engine.itch.io/gardenloom
can I humbly request one (1) additional follower on itch dot io? i've been teetering on 699 for daysss 22to22.itch.io thank you happy new year!!
Dancing: all in step, we align, lest we fall, out of time / misplacement, eyes turn to see who doesn't know this
And one for me from @angels.bsky.social , for posterity ☺️
Queen Bee: go go go go fly fly fly fly find find find find eat eat eat eat / why must you be in charge? A convenient fire late at night
Orders from the top ( @angels.bsky.social ) for you!
Hourglass: a mad scramble, a present savored, a memory preserved/a silent deadline, a dismal future, a moment missed by marn @corpserevivers
A trickle of sand from @corpserevivers.bsky.social ! Yours to spend however you wish :)
Blacksmith's Hammer: fissures widened, iron bent and broken by heavy hands/cold steel turned hot, something new shaped from old scrap
A heavy tool courtesy of @corpserevivers.bsky.social .
The loop: memorized steps to a dance you've done one thousand times before / gotta get out gotta get out gotta get out by marn @corpserevivers
Couldn't have picked a better card for you if I combed the deck. Happy New Year 🔁
Susan's gift: an ivory horn, a blessed present, a reward for gentleness/how will you call to me when i have gone and grown and you are gone, by Weaver Walker (old @ censored)
Take this from @weaverswork.bsky.social and see how you feel!
This New Year's Eve, I'm cracking open my favorite kind of Spindlewheel deck--those written by other designers of their own accord--and will be drawing portents from the far-flung years of 2019/2020. passerines.itch.io/exquisite-wh... passerines.itch.io/luminous-knife comment to receive one!