Instead of journaling about the Minor Arcana of the RWS Tarot, I’ve embarked on a 365-day-long game jam.

I started a Decan Walk on March 20th (the Spring Equinox), inspired by T. Susan Chang’s 36 Secrets: A Decant Journey through the Minor Arcana of the Tarot and the blogs of several others who have attempted Decan Walks.

Although I’m keeping personal notes on the experience, I decided to document my walk as a series of ‘rooms’ in Unreal Engine 5.1. Although I’ve done work in Unity before, this is my first sustained work in UE5, so it’s been very — crunch. Really, this first decan was a 10-day long game jam on top of the magical contemplation of the decay. And realistically, I’m embarking on thirty-six 10-day-long game jams, no breaks, no prisoners.

You can watch a YouTube video of the playthrough here.

And you can read the full essay on Medium here.

This essay was written on February 18th, 2023 on another site. This is slightly edited for this context. The images in this essay are from a study for Öccane.
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