Title:
Oblique Strategies
Alternate Titles:
- Les Stratégies Obliques
- Les Strategies Obliques
Developer:
Jennifer Thomas
Publisher:
Dimensional Communications
Source:
https://web.archive.org/web/20030415021322/http://www.dimensional.com/~jthomas/oblique/os_flash3.swf
Date Added:
7/27/2025, 7:55:53 AM
Date Modified:
8/13/2025, 11:17:16 PM
Notes:
Viewing one set of cards, going back to the main menu, then returning to the same set causes the card text to not display upon clicking. Closing and restarting the game fixes this.
The game originally imported data from a pair of now-lost .txt files to display card text, so it has been hacked to keep the card text inside the .swf itself, with the data recreated from https://web.archive.org/web/20010214001229/http://www.rtqe.net/ObliqueStrategies/Ed4.html and https://web.archive.org/web/20010228180136/http://www.rtqe.net:80/ObliqueStrategies/FrenchEd.html.
The unaltered file is available as an alt app below.
Original description comes from Jennifer Thomas Creative Design Microsite (60669122-9f76-47da-8063-eae36b315ee2)
Original Description:
I designed this Flash version of the "Oblique Strategies," a deck of cards originally created by musician Brian Eno and artist Peter Schmidt. This bilingual piece appears in French and English.
Application Path:
FPSoftware\Flash\flashplayer_32_sa.exe
Launch Command:
http://www.dimensional.com/~jthomas/oblique/os_flash3.swf
ID:
1569a65f-5cb8-4bda-8df1-906efb695405