tarot-deck

This is my project for Silly Hacks!

I'm still pretty new to coding, so this is a simple project. That said, this is the first project that I've really dived into just for fun outside of classes, so I'm really glad I had the opportunity to just create something that serves no real purpose other than just fun! I chose to do a tarot deck because that's something I've been playing around with a lot lately, and I think there's a lot of potential for fun and creative uses for tarot.

I started with a basic tarot deck, consisting of 78 cards with names and descriptions. I added functionalities to draw a random card and display it's information in the console, and then built a user interface to request cards and exit. Once that was working, I extended the functionality to allow the user to input a question in the console and request a specific number of cards to be drawn.

Once I had that up and working, I moved to the second functionality, which I was really excited about: tarot cards as writing prompts. Tarot is largely made up of archetypes, so it lends itself well to storytelling, and I wanted to make a game-like creative writing prompt generator based on randomly pulled tarot cards. The final result isn't fancy, but it does what I wanted it to do, and I've had a lot of fun already writing dumb, silly stories based on random tarot cards.

I accomplished all of the smaller goals I set for myself in terms of functionality, but in the future, I would like to expand this core program into a mobile or web app, so that it is easier to use and so that I can include pictures of the cards.

Built With

• java