We talk to an expert on French culture about the historical influences on Card Shark, the game about 18th century French card cheats.
immediately charmed me when I played its demo at LudoNarraCon, and finishing it revealed what will likely be one of my favorite games of the year. Asking players to perform real-world card tricks with a controller, it’s a whirlwind tour of fictionalized card tables in 18th century France. It’s funny and tragic, tricky to learn and rewarding to master, and shows off a light, deft hand towards its more literary aspirations.
Full disclosure: Dr. Call and I are friends. I took several classes from him and also TAed for him in undergrad. I’ve also edited Dr. Call’s quotes for brevity and clarity.was how it depicted card playing as something almost everyone in every class of society does. Protagonist Eugene and the real-life figure Comte de Saint Germain take a tour throughout France and play cards with kings, sea captains, pirates, peasants and thieves. The structure of the game is a kind of social maneuvering.
However, social mobility and class encounters happened on more than just the stage and page. “Card play allowed for strange careers,” Dr. Call remarked, “People, often coming from the lower nobility, catapulted themselves into social situations they never could have found themselves in otherwise.” The largest examples of this were in the king’s court. Louis XIV solidified gambling as an official pastime at Versailles and it had both obvious and strange political dimensions. Dr.
This exploration of the physical truths of the world still introduces ideological friction, even from those people who are leading it. For example, Jean-Baptiste le Rond d’Alembert, a famous French mathematician who appears in, resisted the new wisdom of probability. In Dr. Call’s abbreviation: “If you flipped a coin 50 times and it was tails every time, these probability mathematicians will tell you that there’s still a 50% chance it’ll be tails the next time.
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