Oblique Strategies0.1.1

Draw a single card to receive an unusual prompt when a creative decision, impasse, or change of direction calls for a fresh perspective. Oblique Strategies presents one strategy at a time rather than asking you to work through a fixed sequence. Its deck contains more than one hundred dilemmas, questions, constraints, and compact insights intended to provoke interpretation.

Swipe to reveal the next card, then use Android’s back button to revisit cards from earlier in the session. Recurring notifications can bring a prompt back at chosen intervals, making the deck part of a regular creative routine. Mark cards as favorites to influence how often they appear. The app is useful for writers, musicians, designers, and other people who need to interrupt habitual thinking during work.

First published by Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt in 1975, the physical deck is meant to be consulted when a dilemma arises, even when the drawn instruction seems unclear. As a Games title, this digital version suits solo reflection, brainstorming, and deliberate experiments with constraints.

Version 0.1.1 runs on Android 4.4+ for arm64-v8a, armeabi-v7a, and x86_64 devices. It is open-source, built with Flutter, has no build flavors, and includes Gitpod configurations for temporary development environments.