Oblique Strategies Playground: a Full Stack approach to utilizing an oracle system creatively.

For my front-end web programming project I decided to create something which would take the Oblique Strategies cards, and allow me to utilize them as an api where I could manipulate the data, and show those changes effectively on the DOM.

Oblique Strategies is a card system designed by Brian Eno and and Peter Schmidt, meant to help ideation, music production, and decision making.

A random number generator, which parallels divination systems like the Tarot or the I-Ching, it’s design appealed to me.

My project would allow me to use the Oblique Strategies as they were originally intended, as a creative oracle, but also store my ideas simply in one place, and also if I share the project online, where others could share their work as well.

The scope of my project is fully explained on my gitHub readme. I wanted the app to take Oblique Strategies, a card Array, and apply a Map method, through user interaction. Even the strategies can be changed.

How I built the data: a Rails backend using seed data from another API, which had all of the original Oblique Strategy Cards. Then I edited the data and made my own custom seeds following a simplified schema, which included a Card model, and an additional Note model to fulfill my design.

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