Pale Jack
This wiki is the working document for Pale Jack — a solo-dev indie horror deckbuilder shaped like blackjack. Players, testers, and contributors land here.
What this is
Section titled “What this is”Pale Jack is a 7-night campaign at a back-room blackjack table. The dealer is Death, but he is not cruel — he is fond, exact, and a little exasperated by the cosmic arrangement he is required to uphold. You play seven nights; he hands back a small piece of you each night you walk out clean — a memory, a year, a name. He has been keeping them for you. He calls you by your name from the second night onward. He remembers what you almost said.
What’s here
Section titled “What’s here”- Mechanics — how the cascade works, the Long-Game Multiplier, Death’s Hesitation, the Mercy cap.
- Arcana — the 109-charm catalog, organized by build identity.
- Campaign — a week at the table, the Pieces system, the endings.
- Voice — how the dealer speaks, and how the corpus is structured.
- Contributing — how to file bugs, propose new arcana, or write dealer lines.
Status
Section titled “Status”The single-night demo is live at palejack.com. The full 7-night campaign ships with the desktop build. See Project status for the current progress against the v1.0 spec.
This wiki is written in the same register as the dealer: warm, faintly fussy, never campy. If a page reads as a sales pitch, file a PR.