A tarot-inspired, multi-player storytelling card game
VEIL is a storytelling card game set in the late Victorian Era. Players participate in a Spiritualist seance, interpreting major moments of a Spirit’s life through custom tarot-inspired cards.
As a co-designer on VEIL, I helped pitch, research, design, and implement content and mechanics that marry the somewhat serious tone and aesthetics of the Victorian era with the mischievous fun of a seance in this tarot inspired tarot deck. I also did the following:
Graphic design and layout of the tarot inspired cards and rules. (illustration by Swathi Sambasivam)
Writing and editing of rules, card content, and the Card Compendium.
Research on the historical contexts of women and femininity in the Victoria Era and The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman.
Materials research and fabrication of tarot cards and the red & blue acrylic filters to change the card images
Featured at the NYU Game Center 2022 Spring Showcase.
