In Lunch Gambit, you play a student who faces off other kids in single round poker-like games, and make it to the top of the cafeteria. 

Battle in four different types of games, and build your ultimate poker deck.

Controls

  • Press x or z on keyboard to select options. press arrow keys to move
  • Press Ctrl+m to mute music and sound

Game Rules

  • Poker - make the best 4 card hand you can make
    • Hands Ranks (in order): 4 of a kind, 3 of a kind, 2 pair, 1 pair, high card
  • Spades - play the best card in the leading suit
    • Trump is spades, but you must follow suit if you have it
    • If you are the leading player, you are picking the leading suit
  • Blackjack - play 2 cards to get the closest to 21
    • No hitting for extra cards
  • Cribbage - play two cards to score the most pegs in a single round
    • Opponent starts (and scores) for the first two cards, and a final card after
    • You get points for making the following happen (with the opponents cards)
      • a sum of 15
      • a sum of 31
      • pairs
      • 3 of a kind
      • 4 of a kind
      • sequential run of cards (up or down)
    • Your opponent will play a final card after to score some points off your played cards

Screen Reader Support

This game runs in the browser, to hear the different options, enable your screen reader for the browser window, and you should start hearing text after starting the game (selecting on the start button image).

About this game

Lunch Gambit was created by Jesse Jurman and Tina Howard. This is an effort to prove out the viability of making blind accessible games in Pico-8!

In order to do this, we created the pico-a11y-template.

Tomorrow Night Font from VEXED, you can purchase it here: Tomorrow Night - 8x10 Pixel Font (PICO-8 Support) by VEXED (itch.io)

The font used for the web page is the Atkinson Hyperlegible Font

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Comments

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will this get a downloadable/windows/offline version?

We can certainly add that! It'll almost certainly still have to run in an HTML page (that's how the accessible text is presented), but no reason we can't provide that page to run on your local machine 😄 - we'll probably offer that once we've done more polish on the game (there are still a bunch of updates we want to do to the game after the voting period).

Just to clarify, is there any specific reason you want a downloadable version?

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to play offline.

A downloadable.zip is now available! Inside is an `index.html` file that you can open with your browser (even if you have no internet access) and it should work as expected!