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A husband-and-wife team making fun stuff to play on your phone, tablet, and elsewhere.

Our latest: Carte Blanche (https://www.carteblanche.cards)

Website: https://www.howseven.com
Merch: https://shop.howseven.com
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In case you weren't aware: we hide a bunny in each of our games. Have you found any of them yet? #indieDev
A lot of bunny-shaped icons on a green background
October 11, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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We’ve got a collection of card games, if that’s of any interest: www.carteblanche.cards

(We also made some physical pixel-y cards to match! 😄)
“Carte Blanche” main menu. It looks like an open book with a spread titled “Games” and lists Cribbage, Spite & Malice, Spades, Gin Rummy, and Cassino. A cribbage game in Carte Blanche. A 4, 4, and 7 have been played. One player has said “2 for Pair”, and the other said “2 for 15”. There’s a cribbage board on the right, showing the current score. A slot machine with card imagery. A payline in the center is highlighted, showing a 2-3-4 straight. Physical Carte Blanche cards. The 10 of diamonds and 2 of spades sit beside the box, which shows the title and the raven Blanche holding a card in her beak.
August 20, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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We'll be streaming some gameplay of our @play.date game "Carte Blanche" on our YouTube and Twitch channels this Saturday, August 2 at 3pm (ET).

Join @theoddlinguist.bsky.social for a cozy afternoon of card games and friendly birds.

Visit www.carteblanche.cards#live for more details!
A video thumbnail titled "How Seven! Plays: Carte Blanche". The title is set on an angled background, colored with the How Seven! magenta color. The right side of the thumbnail shows the Carte Blanche title on a yellow Playdate console in front of a window with green trees behind it. The screen is showing a cribbage game in progress.
July 31, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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It's International Crow and Raven Appreciation Day!

Today, we celebrate our own friendly little raven, Blanche. She's always willing to make time for a game, teach you how to play, and share her treasures with you when you win.

Thanks for being awesome, Blanche.

#playdate #cardGames #indieDev
An illustrated white-feathered raven holding a playing card in her beak and standing on a hand of cards. Behind her is a corner of windows, with green trees outside.
April 27, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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Weekends are a great time for hobbies: card games, cross stitch, hanging out with friendly birds…

What sorts of fun are you up to this weekend?

#cardGames #crossStitch #friendlyBirds
A shelf with decorative plants in the background. The foreground features a deck of cards that says “Carte Blanche”, a cross stitch of a white-feathered raven (whose name happens to be Blanche), a Playdate showing the card view for a game called “Carte Blanche”, and a poker-sized deck of hanafuda cards with the title Kiki’s Koi-Koi on it.
April 12, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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Shipping out some cards right now! Get some of your own for your next game night.
Some decks of Carte Blanche cards, with some shipping supplies.
March 15, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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The Carte Blanche cards have arrived!

If you’d like to try out some of the new card games you’ve learned from Blanche with friends and family, you can now pick up a raven-approved deck of your own!

shop.howseven.com/collections/...

#cardGames #indieDev
A box filled with packaged decks of cards labeled “Carte Blanche”
March 14, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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Have you tried all the themes on carteblanche.cards? Which one is your favorite?
A screenshot of a drop-down menu from carteblanche.cards. The label says “Theme”, and the options are: Default, Retro Gamer, Neon Purple, Eggplant, Lesser Eggplant, Lagoon, Terminal, Chill, Chill Again, Peach Dreams, and Upsetting
March 6, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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Issue 6 of @uncrankdpd.bsky.social has arrived!

…and within its pages, you’ll find some words @theoddlinguist.bsky.social wrote about Carte Blanche and its development. Thanks for letting us tell a little of Blanche’s story.
A Playdate playing Carte Blanche sitting atop an issue of Uncrank’d Magazine, open to a page talking about Carte Blanche. (The full text of the article is a bit long for the alt text, but we’ll publish it somewhere in the near future.) A Playdate playing Carte Blanche sitting beside an issue of Uncrank’d Magazine, open to a page talking about Carte Blanche. (The full text of the article is a bit long for the alt text, but we’ll publish it somewhere in the near future.)
February 28, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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There’s quite a lot of good stuff to play on the Playdate all of a sudden.

• @fletchmakes.bsky.social
• @jonsimantov.bsky.social
• Powerdive Games
• Henry Fehlner

I think you all may have something to do with this. All that free time I was supposed to have has gone missing. 😄

play.date/games
February 26, 2025 at 3:02 AM
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Thanks for the mention!

Blanche says “Thanks”, as well.
Some playing cards laying on a purple mat. Some aces, along with a card with the How Seven! logo on it. The card on top shows Blanche sitting at a table, with her cat Carte sleeping in a bed beside her. The card says “You Win!”
February 26, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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Carte Blanche is available now! ♥️♣️♦️♠️

Learn and play five classic card games with a friendly raven. Only on @play.date.

Catalog: play.date/games/carte-...
Itch: howseven.itch.io/carte-blanche

Site: www.carteblanche.cards
Merch: shop.howseven.com/collections/...

#indieDev #gameDev
A promotional image of Carte Blanche. The title is shown at the top. Blanche, a white-feathered raven, is standing on a plant, holding a card in her beak. Her black cat, Carte, is sleeping on a chair on the left side. In the center, there is a Playdate console, showing a screenshot of Carte Blanche: a game of Cribbage in progress.
February 25, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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One more week until Carte Blanche launches!

Blanche is looking forward to filling this gallery with all sorts of treasures. How many will you collect?

www.carteblanche.cards
A picture of a Playdate showing a black-and-white screen of a gallery. Plinths are lined up side-by-side, each with nothing atop it and a label in front. A menu option that says “Directory” is in the top-left corner.
February 18, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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It’s International #Cribbage Day!

Blanche is getting ready to share her love of cribbage with everyone: from new players to pros. Will you be joining her?

February 25 — carteblanche.cards

#playdate #indieDev
In the foreground, there’s a Playdate console showing a cribbage game in progress. The Playdate is on a purple mat on a wooden table. Behind the Playdate, the same in-progress cribbage game is being played with physical cards.
February 10, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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It’s almost time! Carte Blanche will be arriving on a @play.date near you very soon.

Get ready for card games, a friendly bird, and a shiny marble she found on a playground and is excited to share with you. (It’s not really that shiny, but let her have this.) #indieDev

www.carteblanche.cards
A man holding a Playdate console in his hand, showing the screen, which is a title screen for a game that says “Carte Blanche by How Seven!”. Out of focus behind the Playdate, the man’s shirt is dark grey with a yellow Playdate wordmark printed on it.
February 1, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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Only four weeks until Blanche arrives, ready to teach and play some of her favorite card games. Which one is your favorite?

www.carteblanche.cards
A black-and-white screenshot of a video game menu. A white raven named Blanche is beside a speech bubble that says: “These are some of my favorite games. We can play any one you’d like!”. The menu is shaped like an open book. There are five options: Cribbage, Spite & Malice, Spades, Gin Rummy, and Cassino.
January 28, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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Welcome to Carte Blanche!

♦️♣️♥️♠️

Carte Blanche is a collection of two-player card games you can learn and play with the help of a friendly raven named Blanche.

• Cribbage
• Gin Rummy
• Spades
• Cassino
• Spite & Malice

Launching February 25 on @play.date Catalog and @itch.io

carteblanche.cards
January 7, 2025 at 5:06 PM