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A jam submission

Dicebox DefendersView game page

Your dice roll turns into a tower! Submission for GMTKJAM2022
Submitted by pikiperry (@pikiperry), kylengelmann, wasai_bee, Raliu — 2 hours, 37 minutes before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Enjoyment#10703.2613.261
Presentation#13203.4783.478
Overall#16063.1883.188
Creativity#28572.8262.826

Ranked from 23 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 roll dice that turn into different towers depending on what you land on. Also, the enemies are dice that can be rolled by explosions, which can be either hurt or help.

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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Comments

Submitted(+1)

Nice game, I liked the way the "health bar" was displayed for the dices, the game is a bit on the easy side, but it's always super difficult to balance a game during a gamejam haha, best music and sound effects so far and the art is nice too !

Submitted(+1)

Suuper cool game , Nice idea and execution ! The graphics and effects were on point , Felt like a Polished board game , Good work all in all !! :))

Submitted(+1)

At the beginning of the jam I also thought about making a tower defense but my idea wasnt good as this :D .  Even though game breaks after sometime I enjoyed it very much. And SFX and music sounds to me like game is playing in a child's mind it reminded me my childhood. Good job.

Submitted(+1)

Well. Now I can say that I defended the tower from dice! Thanks!)
Developer

haha nice

Submitted(+1)

Loooved this game, 10/10!!

Developer

I'm so glad you liked it! Your game is so pretty and funny :DD

Submitted(+1)

The sfx and music made a very unique experience. The overall look and presentation of the game was really neat. Cool idea of throwing the dice to get a random tower. The biggest issue I see is the balancing of the game since it got really easy.I never really felt I had to be strategic or rethink where I throw the dice or what kind of tower I should use. Other then that great job! Would love too see more updates of the game :) //theheheo

Developer

Thank you so much! Yeah, it was a bit challenging to balance T_T we ran into the issue of the first three dice sometimes would result in no kills, so I erred on the side of easy rather than impossible and maybe overcorrected a bit. I'm looking forward to updating the balance so maybe check back later!

p.s. ur game's pretty cool :D

Submitted(+1)

LOL, those sfx and music is 10/10
cute little game. Everzthing worked perfectly. Just one suggestion, you should probably block certain places where to throw the dice. I could easily block the begging of the road pretty soon and then it's ggez

Developer(+1)

Yeah, that's a great point you make! I realized a little too late that the enemies could get piled up and cause a bit of a traffic jam :)

Submitted(+2)

Very funny game. I enjoyed the sounds and music. The way of building turrets was also interesting. Sometimes the dice could roll pretty far. And the idea to have life described on dice was great. Changing sides of the dice to show the current health was great idea.

Developer

Yeah! I'm so glad the game we made came out as spontaneous as we had envisioned, didn't want to get bogged down with pixel perfect tower placement :)

Submitted(+1)

Very cute game, did you get your family in to help you on the sound effects because they are adorable!
I would say that the game needed a bit more expanding with maybe a couple levels and paths as well as being a bit too easy. Overall a good submission though :)

Developer(+1)

Yes! We were thinking about adding levels, upgrades, so many ideas had to be cut. Our developer worked so hard to get this all together.

Submitted(+1)

The music and sound effects brought a lot of joy. Solid tower defense game, well done!

Developer

I'm so glad you liked our audio work!

Submitted(+1)

This is a great tower defense game, only issue is I want more. Love the charming setting. Great Job!

Developer

Oh my goodness that is honestly the best issue we could ever have! Thank you!

Submitted (1 edit) (+1)

The music was just amazing. Is it available on Spotify?

Developer

hahaaaaa im deaddddd. we had so much fun putting this song together! We didn't even think to put it up anywhere. Thank you!

Submitted(+1)

Really excellent concept for a jam and really well presented.  Nice work.

Developer

Our artist and programmer both did amazing jobs! Thank you!

Submitted(+1)

Excellent work! Easy to pick up and play, and trying to manage which towers go where was fun. I noticed there was a variety of enemy types via their health - I think adding even more variety via their movement speed, colour, behaviour etc. would be a big benefit to the game

Developer

Thank you so much for playing! I completely agree! We had to cut down our ambition a bit hahah