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A jam submission

DiceheadView game page

Roll in with your dicy friends to save Dicette, a little dice fairy captured by the evil dices !
Submitted by Paperyka — 7 minutes, 21 seconds before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Presentation#50591.7822.222
Creativity#52191.7822.222
Overall#54531.6332.037
Enjoyment#56621.3361.667

Ranked from 9 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 is almost always rolling dices to change movement statistics

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?

No

We used pre-existing audio

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Comments

How to play ?

Submitted

I can see the idea and it's interesting, but controls are not intuitive. Really hard to move in the game and without reading your comment, it's impossible to pass the menu :(

Developer(+1)

Thank you for your feedback. I sadly didn't have the time to do ergonomic keyboard controls in time so that's why I made that big comment.

Developer (8 edits)

The goal of the game is to save dicette  a little dice fairy. 

Commands :

Move the cursor  or  with the or keys (shoulders on controller) 

Click a button with SPACE or (A on xbox controller) 

Move to the Left/Right  with Q/A or D (use left joystick on a controller) 

Jump  with J or SPACE (A on xbox  controller) 

Moving into a wall will make you slide  and jumping while sliding will result in a wall jump

Roll a dice  with K (or X on a xbox controller)

Gameplay Details :

In the Diceheads selection menu, you can assign a 6-faced dice to in game stats. It's up to you if you want a regular dice or if you want to play it more risky with special dices.

You can assign one type of dice for each stat : 

- Jump 

- Speed 

- Sliding 


When you roll a dice , you will roll 4 times forward (unless you face a wall) and destroy any enemy or projectile you will encounter. You should still be careful to the void ! Rolling has a cooldown of 2 seconds so you can't spam it.

Rolling will also change the stat you are targeting (Select it with the I or O keys, or shoulders on controller) to a random value from the dice assigned to it.

Here's an example :


In the current example, the Player has a speed value   set to 1 and wants to change it. To do so he moved the cursor  on the speed icon   and he is now ready to roll a dice .

However be careful when trying to change your stats because each time you launch a dice, the Enemy level  will change randomly affecting the enemies and their projectiles' moving speed. 

One last thing. You might be tempted to stop rolling once you're satisfied with your stats but you shouldn't because if you don't roll for a too long period, each of your stat values will decrease to the side on its left until it reaches the one to the very left.

Submitted

I can't get past the opening, I don't understand the mechanics too well

Developer

The commands are in the README file or in the page of the game

Submitted

I can't even play it

Developer (3 edits)

You need to download and extract the zip file to play it and it should be working on Windows.