Growing up, I never liked card games. I would dread whenever someone asked to play Monopoly or some other game. Well, here I am decades later making a card game called Sworple.
The world needs a game that doesn't ask to think more in a world in which we already think enough. Too many of us are burnt out and overwork and need connection more than anything.
One day while getting a massage, I had the idea make a word game that where you read by feel. I imagined the World Championship of such game. A bunch of people really in tune with their senses sitting in a park tracing words on each other.
Sworple was born.
I wanted a matte, simple cards that keep the focus on connection and the sensations rather than on the cards themselves. I also wanted to make the cards interesting and it was fall, so I made the first edition: Ghost Trace.
After playing a couple rounds with my fiancé with the original version, we determined good locations for the cards and even came up with new ways to play.
It is interesting what kind of tactile illusions we learned through playing Sworple. For instance, letters sometimes feel backwards. We notice words a little better in one direction than another. And cursive is really difficult.
If you want to try Sworple yourself, it is now available for preorder on Amazon.
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