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A jam submission

Fate of the DiceView game page

a 2D shooter game where luck and RNG controls the game
Submitted by SuperPenguinDev — 13 hours, 29 minutes before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Enjoyment#24942.6672.667
Presentation#26232.8612.861
Overall#28312.7412.741
Creativity#31852.6942.694

Ranked from 36 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?
You play as a rolling dice shooting dice enemies while your stats are constantly randomized by dice RNG

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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Submitted(+1)

This is a fun little game! I think you used dice in a creative way for sure. I agree with some of the other reviews that the interruption to gameplay might be unnecessary, but it didn't take too much away from the flow of things in my opinion. I think more feedback for game events and maybe some tighter ranges for the different stats will make the game have a nice core loop, and more mechanics maybe can be added! I like this game, great effort!

Developer(+1)

Thanks for the long and detailed feedback :)

Submitted(+1)

Really fun shooter! Enjoyed it, great work!

Developer

Thanks so much!

Submitted(+1)

Definitely a fun little high score game, there's a bit of strategy I could see here, though at the moment it does get interrupted quite a lot which is unfortunate.  But there's something with the way the spawn and the different health bars based off sides as well as the multiple shots.  I feel like a bit more difficulty in some ways and a bit more mixup in others could be interesting.

One main thing I will say is changing the stat reroll from a passive "here's a screen" to a background element, maybe with a actual die rolling or not, that slows the game down somewhat could act as a reward, as well as give you time to check the stats and avoid interrupting the flow of the game as much.  

As well I do feel like the health and armor both rerolling essentially leads to them becoming less of a "oh no I have this much health" and more of a "oh look I regened _ health" essentially.  Which led to me using it as a way to endlessly tank hits on the trampoline.

Also I will say, the jump stat, is absolutely crazy,  It just goes insane at even level 3, which is surprising.  So personally I feel like toning that done, if not possibly, changing how it works removing it could help.  Cause currently when I did jump.  There were a lot of situations where I would jump once, be fine, jump again after a reroll and fly to the sky then die on the way down.  Maybe switching it up so it's more a "toggle" or "ability roll" maybe.  That way it locks jumping possibly which would give the trampolines more use.  As well as make it a little more understandable as to what's going on.  

One final thing as well that's a little weird is the fact that bullets completely ignore terrain.  Which sort of removes the point of the moving platforms at all.  Since you're just going to move back and forth shooting from the other side of the map.  Rather than having to move onto platforms and go from there.  I feel like stopping everyone (you and the enemies) shooting through platforms or changing it so just the enemies can shoot through platforms could be interesting.  Though if the enemy can shoot through I'd say some sort of limitation would help.  Possibly some sort of shot cooldown, or slower moving projectile etc.  To make it a little easier to deal with when there's multiple and you're having to move towards them to actually damage them.

Developer (1 edit)

Definitely going to be also leaving a book in your game comment section :)

Submitted(+1)

Great game! I enjoy this game, Impressive game in such a short time. Great job!

Feel free to check my game if you want to challange your brain muscle!

Developer

Thanks :D

Submitted(+1)

This is great.
I like the feel, visuals and the idea of the game.
Some feedback on being hit and an option to skip the undated stats with a spacebar pr smthng would help a lot.
also it would be such an insane bug if you could ZA WARUDO when in undated stats state. Kinda sad its fixed.

Overall very impressive work over limitations via lack of experience.

Keep it up! :)
(got 63)

Developer (1 edit)

Thanks for the feedback :) A lot of people had the same issue, I’m definitely going to fix them after the game jam.

Submitted(+1)

This is an awesome 48h edition of a game. The only thing that i'd like to have as a player is feedback on being hit.

Developer

Thanks for the feedback :)

Submitted(+1)

Nice ! Very fun ! I loved moving and the idea of the dice showing their life on their faces was really cool. The pop up is annoying a bit because it breaks the flow of the game, maybe instead of a bouton to close it it could simply be if just you click somewhere ? Otherwise this was really fun, well done !

Developer

Thanks for the feedback :) A lot of people felt the pop up was annoying so I’m gonna change it after the jam!

Submitted(+1)

Controls well and blasting things is fun.  Using the dice numbers as the health bar for the enemies is very smart.  I don't think I really noticed the randomized stats, so that could probably be made to be more impactful.

Developer

The random stats were supposed to randomly slow you down, decimate your health, etc. Sometimes it isn't noticeably because of how little the time between each randomization is.

Submitted(+1)

Fun game. Quick movement, ability to bumb enemies away and jumppads was reallty fun way to keep it moving. Even though at first iI got 185 point without even knowing that there was lava. Rerolling stats was fun idea, but didn't notice it that much and as they were rerolled couple second from last time, didnät have much time to get hang of what does what.

But simple look, nice quick gameplay and possibility to trasin in menu were great.

Nice work! :)

Developer

Thank you :)

Submitted(+1)

This game is actually really fun! Some small things that I love are how the menu works. Always a great idea to have an interactive menu like that. Other than that it was extremely suprising to me how fun it was to just jump around shoot and especially just kick enemies into the lava. Having collision enabled was a really really great idea and it’s so much fun to zoom around and kick some dudes.

Great work!

Developer

Glad you liked it :)

Submitted(+1)

Nice Game!

Developer

Thanks!

Submitted(+1)

That's decent time killer :) Nice job! 

Developer

Thanks for playing :)

Submitted(+1)

I enjoyed the simple arcade feel of it .

Developer

Glad you liked the game!

Submitted(+1)

Good game.

Developer

:D

Submitted(+1)

This game was pretty fun and had great gameplay. Great entry! :))

Developer

Thanks :)

Submitted(+1)

Very creative game! I love the menu design and the fact that the number of dots on the die updates whenever you damage it! Love the  Dani-style post processing XD. I myself am an admirer of Dani.

A little constructive feedback: as others have already mentioned, the pop-up disrupts the flow of the game. If you do really need it, would be better if you added a PRESS ANY KEY TO CONTINUE instead of having the player drag their mouse to "CONTINUE" to close the pop-up.
Next would be to add a cooldown between the shots. I have an auto-clicker built into my mouse(I don't even know why there's one, just came with the mouse), and based on my experience, I'd recommend adding a cooldown so as to not make it too easy for those who have an insane CPS XD.

Overall very creative game, beautiful visuals and great take on the theme. 

Developer(+1)

Thanks for pointing out the auto clicker issue and giving awesome feedback, definitely something else on the list of things to work on! :)

Submitted

No problem! Happy to help! :D

Submitted(+1)

The fighting part is good, but the pop up window shows every few seconds, and I have to click to close it...

Developer (1 edit)

Thanks for your feedback, a lot of people have said the same thing, once the jam is over, I’ll be sure to make a option to stop the popup window :)

Submitted(+1)

Pretty enjoyable game to just jump around and shoot enemies haha. I wish the popup didn't appear so often though, it gets annoying after a while. Cool submission, nice work :)

Developer

Thanks for the feedback! Probably should have made it so the pop up was optional :)

Submitted(+1)

Liked the concept. The Popup appearing seemed to interrupt the gameplay a bit though. I'm also left unsure of what the stats actually are. Despite this the game is quite enjoyable. Well done.

Developer

Thanks for playing, the stats are actually explained in the how to play section in the main menu :)

Submitted(+1)

Ah, never mind that's my fault. I wasn't paying enough attention

Developer

no worries :D

Submitted(+1)

Very fun game, my aim was terrible tho at high speeds lol.

Developer

Thanks for playing!

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