That's a very original and creative take on the theme, even if a bit stretching it, the only musical game I've seen among many other entries. I quite enjoyed my time with it, really sparked my "wanna-be musician" side, haha. I love that you can actually represent same beats with different dice, just like with real time signatures, and the game accepts it as being right. The graphics are a bit of a downside, but it doesn't take away from the fantastic experience.
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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Creativity | #98 | 4.217 | 4.217 |
| Overall | #632 | 3.622 | 3.622 |
| Enjoyment | #807 | 3.398 | 3.398 |
| Presentation | #1760 | 3.253 | 3.253 |
Ranked from 83 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?
Dice are used to program drum tracks in this puzzle game. Each face and pip represent the number of notes played every beat.
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
Comments
Really cool music game, I love how you can easily create nice beats with triplets and quintuplets! Really cool Idea and very fun, good job!
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Die Sorcerer!Unique take on the theme, I love it! Nice presentation, and the tutorial phases and dificulty curve are really well settled! Good job!
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How to Dice MushroomsBro. Imagine how happy I was playing this game, as a drummer and as a fellow Godot dev. This is beautiful dude, you nailed it completely, this is ultra creative, super fun, I would sugest caring a little more for presentation if you plan to further update this game, like, text based tutorials are dead, the thing now is slowly presenting mechanics via gameplay. But the rest is perfect to me, solid 5 star fun and creative.
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The Walking CubeI'm a fellow drummer as well ;). Thanks so much for your feedback, I think you nailed it with text-based tutorials being dead. I was just able to watch someone who has no musical or gaming background play and it was immediately apparent that she had no interest in reading the instructions nor using (because she didn't have) conventional counting strategies to figure things out like eighth note rest into eighth note hit even though being able to clearly notice something was wrong. A tutorial with demonstrations for everything seems 100% required after that. I do want to keep text for story elements I'm hashing out, but yeah instructions are dead haha
Pretty similar to how we wrote music for our game :D The game is awesome - great job!
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Dice PrincessReally cool game! There's so much complexity that's presented in a simple and intuitive way. This is a really interesting concept and I had a lot of fun playing! Great job!
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Roll, Fish!Man, I was not expecting someone to make a full-blown music game for this jam! What a cool interpretation of the theme, it was so much fun coming up with patterns on this dice-themed DAW
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Jimmy Blitz and the Rocket DiceSuper fun game, and really creative! I never thought my quintuplet practice over the years would come in handy in a game jam game :)
I wasn’t sure if there was a faster way to enter in dice, like if I needed multiple 3s in a row or to remove a lot of pips there was a lot of repetitive clicking. It would be cool if you can click and drag over multiple pips to toggle them all at once or something like that. That’s really my only nitpick, great job!
Also, Godot gang 💪💪💪💪
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UnweightedThis is really cool! Haven't played anything like this before. I'm terrible at music so I had trouble deciphering the individual sounds, but I still had a ton of fun playing it! Really different take on the theme. Well done and congrats on submitting!
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Dice CasterThis is so cool!!! I love trying to match the beat and the beats are so satisfying. Well done!
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DICE GRENADE!Using the dice faces as beat subdivisions is a super interesting take on the theme. Trying to pick out if a beat was just two eighths or two offbeat 16ths was fun. I really appreciated that you could separate out the tracks from each other, as it made it much easier to be able to focus on one track at a time. Great work!
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UnweightedAbsolutely loved this concept, very different from the ones we rated so far, good work! Would love to see more of this game being made
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Dickie RollemI can see this becoming a very involved puzzle game where a user is really forced to listen to the complexity of a track, especially if it involves beats that purposefully try to throw them off of their sense of rhythm. Kudos!
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Dance To The DiceThanks a lot for the feedback and I can't emphasize how nice it is to read comments like this! Sorry about the sounds, I agree that they're not ideal, but they were very easy to synthesize in sfxr haha. I've also noticed they're considerably worse on speakers and headphones that aren't my main pair, so that's my bad for not checking on more hardware. A post-jam build will have nicer (and probably more unique) sounds :)
I love this kind of games and your entry used the theme in a very creative way. I only had trouble distinguishing the 3 quintuplets vs 3 triplets. The freestyle mode is a nice addition too!
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Dice Catch!Very cool take on the theme that I haven't seen! I don't really know much about making music, but replicating the tracks was pretty fun!
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Dicey mechanics
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