Kill Number

Defeat the Gambling Bugs!!

Die-No-Mite

Kill this bug by raising or lowering its number to 4.

Straightipede

Kill by setting its dice numbers in sequence; 1 2 3 or 5 4 3. Doesn't have to be in order, even 3 5 4 works.

Keyboard & Mouse (recommended due to aiming with the cursor)

Movement: WASD

Mouse Left Click: Raise dice numbers

Mouse Right Click: Lower dice numbers

Space: Dash

Controller

Right Trigger: Raise dice numbers

Left Trigger: Lower dice numbers

Button/Bumpers: Dash

1024x768 resolution recommended if using controller!

Known bugs:
1. You can dash out of screen and get stuck, but you can dash back in.
2. Straightipede can spawn already in a sequence.

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As Jack Diamond, battle the Gambling Bugs by firing high-energy diamonds and low-energy spades to raise and lower the numbers of the dice on their backs. For common Die-No-Mites, set each mite's number to 4 to kill them. Straightipedes will charge in one direction before changing angles. Set their dice to consecutive numbers to finish them off. Be careful, though – setting any dice above a 6 or below a 1 will throw them into a berserker rage!

Survive as long as possible, squashing as many Gambling Bugs as you can.

Controller and keyboard/mouse controls supported.

All art, animations, sound effects, and music were created solely for the game jam.

Story:

I'm Jack. She named me after her dad.

I was her favorite imaginary friend, born out of her happiest memories: the family game nights where he taught her how to play cards.

Then one night, he made the wrong bet, at the wrong craps table, in the wrong part of town. He lost everything, including her; she moved out with her mom last month. It broke her heart, and of course she wanted to know why. Someone told her about "the gambling bug," and she started imagining evil dice creatures, scurrying around and biting into people. So now they're here too, in her old room.

Dad Jack is downstairs all day, trying to drown his debts in whisky. And I'm up here, the last echo of a little girl's innocence, facing the vices that crushed it.

I like to think, if I swat enough of them, it'll send her dad some kind of psychic jolt and bring him back to his senses. Or maybe that's wishful thinking, and we're all just battling over an empty room until the repo men show up.

Either way, here they come.