Interactive Media – Twist of Fate

Twist of Fate is an interactive tarot card board game for 4 players which tells 4 different stories using 4 different tarot cards

Aim of the Game Player dealt one card face down with a QR

code on the back The player rolls the dice (1-6) and tries to land

on as many Story spaces as possible When 6 Story paragraphs are collected they

make their way to the finish and state what card they think they have.

Twist of Fate

Board design

6 5

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Finish

Start

2 3

1

3

2

4

2

3

4

Story SpaceWhen player lands on this

spacenumbered paragraph added to webpage

Player can only collect 6 of these paragraphs

Players can collect duplicates

If lands on space 1 twice then player

Has 2 space 1 paragraphs

Fate Space

When a player lands on this space

They choose one player to lose A paragraph

The paragraph they lose is based on

A dice roll

If they do not have the numbered

Paragraph the dice rolled

They lose nothing.

Finish space

When player has 6 paragraphs

They can go round to the finish

And declare what card they think they have

based on the paragraphs they

CollectedIf they have less than 6

paragraphs, the space is treated as a normal space.

1

Red spaces are normal

Chance space

When player lands

Chance to roll for a paragraph

They state which paragraph

(1-6)

They want to roll for

Player must roll higher or equal

To that numbered Paragraph to win it

Interactive web page When a player lands on a story space, the

game master sends a paragraph of text to the web page

Players access this page with smartphone/tablet by scanning QR code on back of Tarot card.

Each player has an individual link, and cannot see other players’ stories

What is the QR code? The QR code links the player to their own web

page The game master has control over what

content goes onto this webpage When a player lands on a story space (1-6)

they receive another paragraph

Tarot cards Game cards popularised in Europe in the late 15th century * Magical societies in the English speaking world began to adapt the cards

to their beliefs, with two popular varieties originating from Britain – that by Arthur Waite and more famously Alistair Crowley, with artwork created by Pamela Smith and Frieda Harris. They were rival members of The Order of the Golden Dawn.

* Throughout the 20th century, they became more thematic. The Psychedelic era of the 1960s was partly influenced by this and artwork of the period reflects a magic undertone.

* Tarot cards are also widely parodied or acknowledged in pop culture today.

Our 4 Tarot cardsDeath LoveLustGreedEach Card Has a picture of its category on the

front with the text of what it is, cards will be placed face down on the table. There is a QR code on the back that links to its own webpage where the paragraphs of story are added.

Story outlineEach of the 4 stories will follow the structureBackground - “News radio report about a prisoner with a hook escaping from jail”

Tragedy / danger – scrapes found on car door after driving away in fear

Resolution – Couple turn up to the parents house to find a bloody hook hanging on the door

We might adapt folk tales or horror stories like “the hook” to this structure

Schedule

Date Achieved

Game Board Prototype Tuesday 11th March

Tarot Card Prototype Tuesday 11th March

Webpage Tuesday 11th March

Testing begins Monday 17th March

Finalize game Tuesday 25th March

Record Event Tuesday 1st April

Audience

• Smart Phone/Tablet Users• Age 16+• Tech Savvy

Production Roles Game Design Web page Story Writer Recording