Tempting Intuition

https://cyberjunk.itch.io/tork-storm

Thoughts:

It’s a title-making game. Having in-jokes make it easier, but otherwise, it’s going to test how well you know each other and how well you know who you are while in this specific group of players. Warm fuzzy. Play it.

I think the inclusion of a single-serving website is a neat alternative to printing a carbon-sucking deck of rando-words. I don’t think the rules were clear enough on what the website was to serve. I felt very uncomfotable going to the address an @user includes in the very first sentence of their jam game. It just smells downright terrible and had all the adrenaline of a total trust fall into a bed of gerbal-sized DARPA dogs carrying hamster-sized casper matrices. Also the rules are disasterously wordy (to the effect of being charmingly comical).

I feel like the rules demand a proper presentation: take the most complicated spread you can find in House of Leaves, then reproduce it with this game’s rules. It should also include a mirror-dimension localization (all the rules printed backwards). Just, embrace this, go all-out. Make the Tempting… rulebook your stress ball after work. When you have a mopy day and just want to make something, know Tempting… rulebook is there awaiting your latest addition with no judgement and full attention if you so choose. The Tempting… rules love you. They will save you. Thanks for writing them. The thoroughness is pleasant and felt… urgent. I’m so scared this is going to be read as snide snarky or sacastic. Scared to post it.

Nice game.