The Public Tarot: Generative Fortunes

A generative tarot reader by Marilyn Roxie. The Public Tarot was made with open-source, interactive fiction software Twine. Purple text indicates word associations with the 78 Rider-Waite tarot images given by 31 survey respondents who ranged in familiarity or lack thereof with the tarot. These responses were then remixed with text from A.E. Waites The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1911), which is now in the public domain. The tarot card images are of the 1909 Rider-Waite deck illustrated by Pamel...