GMTK Game Jam 2020

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A jam submission

Dice or DieView game page

Control your character 100% with dice.

Submitted by TheMoonestOne — 2 hours, 4 minutes before the deadline

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Results

Criteria	Rank	Score*	Raw Score
Originality	#4537	2.087	2.800
Fun	#4839	1.714	2.300
Overall	#4981	1.714	2.300
Presentation	#5229	1.491	2.000

Ranked from 10 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

How does your game fit the theme?
The player only manages which dice they will roll, the dice control the main character. (And enemies are controlled by their own dice as well)

Did your team create the art for this game during the 48 hour time slot?

Yes

We created all art during the game jam

Did your team create the audio for this game during the 48 hour time slot?

We used pre-existing audio

Comments

RB_UnderwoodSubmitted4 years ago(+1)

This is a really neat concept, and I think with a lot of polish, more content, and more varied dice (and options to use those dice), this could be a really fun game.

I did find it frustrating that the attack dice only has three sides that do an action. And the one enemy didn't seem to be able to do anything? This resulted in seven or eight turns of neither of us actually committing an action because I kept rolling nothing. I think that's something you should design against, if you choose to expand on this.

But yeah. Great concept!

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Co-Com (GMTK '20)

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TheMoonestOneDeveloper4 years ago

Thank you for your feedback!

Yeah, balancing the odds seems to be the most difficult part for this game, design wise xD
I made an "extra challenge" in that same buid, were you able to play it? The first scene was just to show the mechanics (basically as a tutorial), that's why the enemy doesn't do anything. In the extra challenge, there are more dice and enemies. There is a dice which you have 5/6 chance to attack, but 1/6 to inflict self damage.
Unfortunatetly, in this build I forgot to change one side of the Final Boss dice, so it doesn't do anything as well. The idea was that their Main Dice is 1/6 Attack and 5/6 of nothing. And their Attack Dice is 5/6 of self damage and 1/6 OHKO the player. It is kinda op, but that's the only way I saw at the moment to make a really threatening boss, so that the player would think "I need to kill it before it kills me" xD

Again, thank you for your feedback o/