Knucklebones

A two-player, card infused spin on Cult of the Lamb's dice game Knucklebones.

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I tried out Cult of the Lamb for the first time a while back and immediately the second I touched the ‘game within a game’ that is knucklebones, it was over. I was never coming back. I abandoned the actual game, and instead spent hours playing this dumb dice game against some rat, losing all my money by betting the max every time. 

I decided to remake knucklebones as a two player couch co-op game. I built it in Unity, with some re-drawn art assets reminiscent of the original game. I’m sure I’m not the only one to remake this game. After all, the base game is fairly simple to recreate. So, I added some fancy cards that give you score boosts or special abilities to hopefully make the game a bit more dynamic and less luck based. While I didn’t get to add all the cards I was hoping to get in, in the future I imagine a moment where you’re ten games deep into the losing streak of the century, and right before your opponent crushes you yet again, you pull the one card that completely flips the game on its head. 

Take that, you rat bastard.