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I'm starting to suspect that my player character – a man currently trying to escape Hell, and who seems to be hated by everyone who remembers him – might not have been the greatest guy when he was alive...
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I'm starting to suspect that my player character – a man currently trying to escape Hell, and who seems to be hated by everyone who remembers him – might not have been the greatest guy when he was alive...
Harry McIntyre's soothing voice and apparently pure motives are making me VERY suspicious of this Reed fellow...
Decided to buy Black Jacket, and so far it's great! I was a bit worried that having a Balatro-esque game with actual characters might get a bit annoying, but the minor ones are unobtrusive and the bosses are interestingly characterised, so I don't mind them.
I mean, I do want to kill that kid, but only because of his blasted Train cards, it's nothing to do with his personality.
Thinking about kris blackjacket aughudvudvhodv getting shamed by both his dad and the townfolk… but his dad hearing about the townsfolk and feeling bad about it… and now kris is gone, looking for a new home… craaap get them out of the underworld I want to know if they did find a home, I think they did they just had to abandon everyone that loved them here…
Modle: Nelly.
Site: Lovers of Boots.
Black Jacket is a 2026 roguelike deckbuilder developed by Mi’pu’mi Games (Howl, The Lion’s Song) and published by Skystone Games (Tiny Books
"The only time you get to look in someone's eye is through the coin you win from them long enough to trade it back and move on to another game."
Apologies for the long wait here, life got busy! I don't know how regular I'll be from here on, but I'll definitely keep updating when I can.
In today's episode of Side Story, @/notquitereal.bsky.social and @/austinwalker.bsky.social discuss Forbidden Solitaire and Black Jacket, thinking about evil card games, lo-fi horror, and the benefits and pitfalls of mechanical abstraction. sidestory.show/28-the-abstraction-gap
8:30 AM PT, June 9, 2026 (Source)