I picked up the physical version of this game at Big Bad Con at Aaron Lim's small publisher table and was very excited about it. I myself had briefly considered making a game based on blackout poetry before abandoning that idea and moving in a different direction, so I was very happy to see that someone had more conviction than I and saw it through.
My favorite part of the game are the simple instructions that it lays out in the letter:
- Remove all words that start with the letters of your initials.
- Pick a number between 1 and 9, count forward in the letter and remove every word on that number.
- Use the same number but count from the end of the letter this time.
- Figure out the rest.
The rules are really simple and direct, and by doing so they free you from the anxiety of trying to find something interesting in the text. Just do what you're told, and then try to find something from what you're left with. By starting with a formula for what to get rid of, it became much easier to find my eventual spell. I might try these same rules again with other texts just to see what kind of spells I can find!
In the meantime, I leave you with the spell that I found:
recognize your future
start enclosed with quill as your secret declares itself
be proficient and remove each sense
complete your power
look forward