Deadly Heart Gambit

Alice-Sama wants your heart.

 (GMTK Game Jam version)


Wishlist now on Steam!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3202110/Deadly_Heart_Gambit/

How To Play

Simply click the card to play it.


Rules

Each round, both you and Alice-Sama will draw 5 heart cards. Play the higher card to win the time slot!


There are 2 special rules.

1. The ace of hearts is the highest card, but it has a value of 1.

2. If the card you play is smaller, you’ll have to play first on the next slot.


Inspirations

  1. Buckshot Roulette / Inscryption

Credits

This is a game for GMTK Game Jam 2024. The theme of the jam is "Build to Scale".

Note: I think there's room for improvement in the gameplay. 

Please let me know if you have any ideas for the core mechanics or rules!


This is a game by @blinkhydrate. Check out my other games! (^_^)

https://blinkhydrate.itch.io/



Updated 1 day ago
Published 25 days ago
StatusReleased
PlatformsHTML5
Rating
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
AuthorBlink
GenreCard Game, Visual Novel
Made withUnity
Tags3D, Anime, Atmospheric, Female Protagonist, First-Person, Horror, Indie, Narrative, Singleplayer
Average sessionAbout a half-hour
LanguagesEnglish
InputsMouse
LinksTwitter

Development log

Comments

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Poor woman. Would totally invite her to social studies and anthropolgy classes. Fun game indeed, won 7,7 years

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5/5 - Gained 10.7 years to my lifespan; Do recommend

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Nice game! The gameplay is pretty simple, but there's enough risk vs reward and room for tricky decisions to make it interesting. Though the variance in the scales might be a bit much. Exchanging a lot of seconds is meaningless, exchanging a lot of weeks is a massive upset.

The premise is cool and keeps the stakes high. I enjoyed Alice's dialogue and the atmosphere was effective. Using hearts as the suit of choice to fit the theme of the game was a nice touch.

Sorry, I didn't realise about the queue rating system. I'll try to get back to this for a proper jam rating when I have time to play more games.

Thank you ^^

Your feedback is more valuable than the rating to me.

I want to make the game better so I’m gathering ideas on how to improve the core mechanics.

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I liked this one! I feel like it creates a lot of tension as she keeps adding rules, and I had to think more and more about what I was playing. It felt tense, a little unfair, but overall if you play well you can survive! Very good!

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Interesting game! Clever usage of outside assets to construct an interesting premise and solid loop!

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Best gambling ever. Alice forever. Just Alice. Alice forever.

Alice forever

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I like the girl dialogue feel like an mystery creature that used human skin, the way this game get harder and environment that match that girl dialogue.

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Damn I think I'm losing to her on purpose. Alice aihdeiahecihdnefihaiehjiafjaihr.

This game had me hooked after some of the changes in dialogue. I really liked how everything worked toghether. 

Nice game!

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5 of 5 on the scale of fun, correct? Life scaled by nine years :D. 

This was a lot of fun. Like, I am impressed. The artsyle is fun the stare of alice is just perfect, the gameplay is addecting. The dialog was ingaging

The game is so fun. I would play it again.  To make this game even better, it would be cool to have a challenge mode or a high score mode to see how far you can go without getting the extra lives or with the text. 


Alice forever 

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Alice forever

Alice forever

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That's a cool idea! Adding rules is cool but it would be nice to have see them on the board during the game. Spending couple minutes of playing I forgot what was added in third level scale...

Lady is creepy. Especially that stare... But it was nice and yeah, felt like a complete game which is a surprise for a jam!

There are quirks like you can place cards while she saying what you lose. But thankfully this lady was easy on me and gave me a lot of chances to win and not locking my progress.

5 of 5 on the scale of fun, right? Lifespan scaled by 3.1 years :)
Don't forget to check our game as well!

Thank you ^^
I add a new rule about the ace of heart.
I will check out your game.