Yo Great job with this! It was surprisingly fun seeing strategies start coming into focus as I played like sending out new pieces to line up free turns with different rolls, and my match was quite a roller coaster of Oh this is easy I'm 3 points up. Oh no the killed 2 of my guys! To literally having both of our last pieces sitting within 2 tiles of the exit. I also love the animations, both the glowing pieces and all the transitional ones like at the start of the match and the menus, as well as the audio being really fitting. Two thing I wasn't sure of was where sending a new piece out would start from, and sometimes I had to reroll some dice after grabbing them all and I couldnt really determine why (maybe they werent thrown far enough?). Also maybe highlighting the end goal when you can jump in, like how the it highlights a tile you will move to just for nonconsistency / clarity would be nice. There was one super tiny bug too with the tutorial, the collision box for the Next Page / Previous Page arrows was offset by about 25% of their width to the right.
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Thanks for playing! The matches can be quite captivating for sure, they often end up very close. I greatly appreciate the compliments on the animation and sounds! The music was found online, but I recorded or made the sound effects myself. :)
I agree, the rules weren't very clear on where the board begins and ends. As for the dice, I think when they don't touch the cursor properly it won't count as being rolled. I had intended on highlighting the end goal like the tiles, but totally forgot before I submitted it!
The bug in the tutorial is strange, thanks for point it out, I'll have to look into it!
Thank you for the in-depth review! :D