TRIONFI press kit
Description
Short description (about 40 words)
TRIONFI is a card game with the earliest tarot deck. Play trionfi — the 15th-century game the tarot was made for — with the Cary-Yale Visconti cards, rules rebuilt from historical sources and a museum of every card at the table.
Long description
Before tarot told fortunes, it was a game. In Milan around 1445, at the court of Duke Filippo Maria Visconti, painters gilded cards for a new game called trionfi — the game of triumphs and the ancestor of every tarot game played today.
TRIONFI seats you at the duke's table. The cards are the Cary-Yale Visconti tarocchi, one of the oldest tarot decks in the world, kept at Yale's Beinecke Library: the surviving cards come from scans of the originals, and the lost ones are labelled AI reconstructions. The rules are rebuilt from the earliest records and the work of historians of playing cards, and the rule book shows where each rule comes from.
Start with a quick duel that teaches the deck, then play trionfi in its Piedmont form of 1787 against lords of the court whose faces come from Pisanello's medals. Every trick tells you why it was won, and a museum at the table explains every card, face and object.
Features
- The Cary-Yale Visconti tarocchi (Milan, 1440s) from museum scans; lost cards rebuilt as labelled reconstructions
- Two card games for two: a quick duel that teaches the deck, and trionfi in its Piedmont form of 1787
- Rules rebuilt from historical sources, with the source of each rule shown
- Four opponents from Pisanello's medals, from easy to master
- A museum of every card, face and object in the hall
- A guided first hand; every trick explains why it was won
Video
First look (47 s): Steam page video (720p preview). Music: “Suonatore di Liuto” by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), CC BY 4.0.
Images
Each image links to its original file. The .zip files in the factsheet column hold the same files.
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Sources and credits
Card images: Cary-Yale Visconti tarocchi, Milan, 1440s. Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale University (open access). Lost cards and the restored card set are AI reconstructions, labelled in the game. Pisanello medal images and other museum objects: credited in the game. Music: Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), CC BY 4.0, and others listed in the game. Full credits and licences are in the game's credits.
About Petri Games
Petri Games is a small independent studio in Belgrade, Serbia. We grow games like experiments: one bold idea, a working build, and real players from day one. Our other game, MORTAROT: Death in the Deck, is a card roguelike coming to Steam.
Team
- Eugene Tsaplin — founder
Contact
Use
Screenshots, art, logo and video may be used for coverage of TRIONFI. For anything else, write to [email protected].