Spindlewheel is THE project I've been most excited about in the last years, not just a game but a TECHNOLOGY.

It makes Tarot-like games accessible and immediate: rather than knowing/looking up what the Ten Of Cups Upright means, the meaning is *on the card* in words and art~ https://twitter.com/teacabbage/status/1314249710606020609

~and each card is so well-designed that you can have a wealth of authentic inspirations from each one, meaning the deck never gets stale or runs out of replay value.

I played one of the simpler microgames, using one card at a time to build areas in a world, for FOUR HOURS and~

~only wanted to keep playing and keep exploring the places we were making together! It's capable of the sort of fractal, endless narrative that I've only seen in games like Microscope (and some of my stuff that isn't out yet, of course). Creating a alchemist's tower and then~

~zooming in to it and drawing cards for each floor and the staircases connecting them and the items in each room felt MAGICAL, each person's contributions building on what came before and inspiring what came after, and I know that everyone in that game still has a place in their~

~heart where that little world still lives: the foolish inventor who was deceived by his lover, the stained glass windows that turned out to be advertisements for shitty factory-made swords, the unfinished construct that tried steadfastly to maintain the lighthouse without hands~

~and the horrible city where a sinister trickster deity swallowed people in illusions of beautiful light. Every card you lay down becomes real, changes the story, recontextualizes and remixes what you already know. And that's just the ONE microgame! You can do so much more~

~and I know for a fact that when people like @temporalhiccup or @LeviathanFiles or @corpserevivers get their hands on this tech they're going to do things that will take our breath away. I'm convinced that Spindlewheel will add a new dimension to the ttrpg space in a way we~

~haven't seen in a while, and if the great games we've seen come out of it so far are any indication, the ones yet to come are going to change what we think is possible in a ttrpg, to open up play spaces and make them fun and easy to use, and to fill us with despair and delight.