CRANKJACK
A downloadable game
GET TO 21.
DON'T BUST.
A high-speed card game where the crank is your only control.
No hit button.
No stand button.
You crank a belt of cards past a window.
Stop the crank on the card you want.
THE CARD BELT IS YOUR HAND.
Cards don't come to you. They run past you. You control the speed, the timing and the risk.
Move the belt.
Read the cards coming through.
Take your card.
EVERY CARD YOU PASS
FEEDS THE HOUSE.
This is where the game gets nasty.
Reversing the crank pushes cards past you on purpose. Every card you skip goes to the dealer.
You are feeding him cards and hoping he busts. If he does, you get paid for every card you gave him.
If he doesn't... you just made him stronger.
PERFECT.
Hit the centre of the window and the game knows.
Chain PERFECT stops and your multiplier climbs. Miss, bust, or lose control and the streak falls.
And the belt gets faster as your run climbs.
The better you play,
the harder it becomes to stay perfect.
FIND A COG.
BUILD A MACHINE.
Survive long enough and crates start landing on the table. What you choose can completely change your run.
PICK ONE.
Three cogs.
One choice.
MAKE A PLAN.
Three cogs from one family.
The lid tells you what you're getting.
TAKE BOTH.
Two cogs that mesh together.
Keep them both.
12 COGS.
4 FAMILIES.
Three slots. Hundreds of possible combinations. Every cog changes the way you play.
MATCH THEM.
BREAK THE GAME.
Two cogs of the same family mesh together and pay combo on every hand you win.
Three matching cogs push that effect even further.
Nine special pairs unlock completely different effects.
Some change the safe zone. Some reward PERFECT stops. Some change how your combo starts. Some do both.
A full rack from one family scores
MORE THAN DOUBLE
a run with no cogs at all.
AND THEN IT GETS WEIRD.
Seven modifiers that bend one rule for one hand.
Unlock them and find them in your Playdate Trophy Case.
English, French, Spanish, German, Portuguese and Italian.
30 SECONDS.
2 MINUTES.
ONE MORE RUN.
A complete run takes roughly 30 seconds to two minutes.
Built for the Playdate.
Designed to be played again immediately.
CAN YOU
REACH 21?
Don't bust.
Don't blink.
And whatever you do...
INSTALL
Download the ZIP and unzip it. You will get a .pdx folder.
- Go to play.date/account/sideload and upload the ZIP.
- On your Playdate, open Settings → Games and download it.
Or use disk mode and drop the .pdx folder directly into
/Games, then eject.
HELP ME MAKE
THE NEXT ONE.
This game is free and always will be. No paywall. No locked content. No catch.
If you had fun, that's already enough. Play it, share it, leave a rating, tell a friend.
A SMALL DONATION HELPS ME KEEP MAKING FREE PLAYDATE GAMES.
Every contribution goes straight back into making more games, experimenting with new ideas and pushing this little yellow console further.
YOUR SUPPORT = MORE GAMES.
More weird ideas. More experiments. More crank-powered nonsense.
Can't donate? No worries. Seriously.
Thanks for playing. ♥
THE GLITCHD STUDIO
FREE GAMES · PLAYDATE · PASSION
Made by Renaud Cosson — The Glitchd Studio.
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