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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Enjoyment | #110 | 4.031 | 4.031 |
| Creativity | #223 | 4.000 | 4.000 |
| Overall | #284 | 3.875 | 3.875 |
| Presentation | #1091 | 3.594 | 3.594 |
Ranked from 96 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?
Tower defense where your towers are dice and can be rolled to reposition and change their effect.
Did your team create the vast majority of the art during the 48 hours?
Yes
We created the vast majority of the art during the game jam
Did your team create the vast majority of the music during the 48 hours?
Yes
We created the vast majority of the music during the game jam
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Cool concept for a game and well designed. For me enemies dealing damage to your mouse was just frustrating, and I think the controls could have used some polishing up. Besides that, its a great game!
Thanks for the feedback, glad you enjoyed it!
Nice!
Thanks for playing!
Controls need a tunning, but the dice animations, SFX, gameplay everything feels really satisfaying
Thanks for playing, glad you liked it!
It feels great just smacking enemies by throwing the die towers. It's a bit tricky to play, but very enjoyable.
Thanks for playing!
Tower Defense games that have combined player movement with tower placement have been done before. But I can't recall a game that lets you throw the towers into the enemies.
Combined with the random tower dice mechanic after each time you throw it gives this game quite unique gameplay.
There is some slight critique:
An annoyance I had was that you can't control the distance in which you throw the dice, which makes it quite tricky to place them.
And whenever I failed to get enough money to buy new dice at the beginning, then I couldn't get enough money to buy new dice which was pretty much game over for me (the -2$ penalty whenever you touch enemies made it really hard for me).
However, that's a tower defense game made in 48 hours, of course, there are going to be balancing issues ;)
But all of these are forgivable because the game is pretty solid and I had overall fun playing it. The idea was clear and executed well in my opinion. I wouldn't be surprised if this game gets into the top 100. Well done!
Thanks for the great feedback! The difficulty tuning was something we were tweaking the whole time, and yeah it could still use some more balancing. We didn't want to make the dice TOO perfectly controllable, otherwise it wouldn't be quite as random haha. But one trick is to bounce it off a wall in the opposite direction ;)
When balancing the difficulty we have to keep in mind our mechanic of manually collecting coins for new towers and the way that coins will naturally spawn on the path that enemies are coming from. If I had any defense for the route we went, I'd say that it's a fair punishment since you can throw a die to stun an enemy so that they don't run into you as you collect a few coins on the path. Thank you so much for your detailed feedback!
Really interesting spin on the tower defense. Regarding what I did not like: controlling the cursor with the keyboard definitely did not feel good. Maybe it's just that it looks like a cursor and I want to control that with mouse. Early on the enemies feel too hard since you only have two turrets and they barely kill a wave of flies.
Thanks for the feedback! We started you off with few dice so you'd be force to use the throwing mechanic!
Really Fun and Enjoyable game! It has a very fun, and interesting game loop that really makes you addicted to see how long you can last... The randomness of the items in line with the force of your throw may make it difficult to strategically place your dice, I suggest that you either lessen the force of the throw or make it so that you drop the dice and it falls to roll instead which would make it much easier and fair to deal with the hordes of enemies in the later difficulty levels... Still it's a fun game tho! One of the most unique tower defense games I've played in a while
Thank you for playing, we hear a lot about the strong throw and can see the frustration. We tried to add the wall bouncing mechanic as a way to lessen how far it goes and add strategy regarding the wall and enemy placement. We appreciate the feedback and praise!
This was really fun! Applying both throwing mechanics and randomness to a tower defense game made strategizing a blast. The enemies could maybe use a bit of rebalancing health-wise, but I still found it a fun challenge. Well done!
Thanks for playing! Balancing was happening up until the last second; difficulty levels would have been great if we had time. Did you find it too hard or too easy?
It was a bit too difficult, more so with the larger enemy hordes before I got more dice. Maybe making the hordes slower at the beginning would help fix it.
Neat game, very fluid mechanics!
Thanks for playing!
awesome, the dice rolling mechanic as towers is exactly what we were trying to go for too!
this game is a lot of fun! Super busy too, lol. Great job!
Loved it ! The idea really surprised and I played it for a long time !
It may lack of different enemies (stronger or quicker) for the end game but it's already really good !
We tried to cover different speeds and health pools but it's costly as the artist to put time into making one monster after the next. Glad that you enjoyed it as much as we did!
A very fun game. I liked the tower variety available with the dice, and it felt satisfying to use them strategically to stun the enemies.
The audio was also quite satisfying to play along with.
Thanks for sharing!
Fun game, very chaotic!