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It was my pleasure, hehe! Thank you for getting such a cool group of people together.

-- Oh god, I'm so sorry for the hassle searching through the PDFs for each card's term must have been for you. When I was making them I got kind of carried away with the idea of submitting these sheets as five separate poems of their own, since "Fish" and "Sevens" show how each rank and suit, respectively, is a poem, but if there's anything I've learned in this game jam, it's to focus on making the content as playable/approachable as possible from the get-go! I'll include a reference file where people can check what each suit/rank combination corresponds to in a future version, and an (out-of-character?) guide on how to put your own deck together.

In the "Ghazal" game, I'd envisioned people picking the refrain consciously (so, not blindly -- Player A would put something down, and then Player B would find the card in their hand that they felt went best with it), but I really like how you guys did it! A clearer instruction manual (possibly with diagrams? lol) is something I'll include in future versions, too. I'm glad you guys liked the poem you came up with; I find the deck generates very friendly/subversive things relative to its source text. (You mentioned you want to read "Shadowgraphs," and while I adore Either/Or more than almost any other book, the whole thing's a bit of a slog and "Shadowgraphs" in particular can read misogynistic. If you end up checking it out, please let me know! I could talk about that book forever.)

And oh my gosh, it's so kind of you to offer recording yourself playing! In lieu of that, we can play a round ourselves over Discord using a key for which terms go with which cards and an emulator like this one, if you like -- just let me know!

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I'd love to!! Let's chat about it when you can