Hey! What you did is super impressive :)! I'm a huge fan of jam games with an online element (focusing on it myself) and a real-time multiplayer game is cool to see!
I think the idea of fighting others with dice which deploying different strategies is really cool, not sure I like the implementation here though. The positive feedback loop is very real and there's no way to "farm" on your own like in Agar.io (for example). So my tactic was just to run into players with less dice and repeat. Maybe if there was more "dicebuilding" and ways to evade battles with others, the game would be more strategic.
I understand you didn't have time for much else though. Well done on the networking!
Play prototype
Dice-IO's itch.io pageResults
| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Creativity | #2908 | 2.813 | 2.813 |
| Overall | #3941 | 2.292 | 2.292 |
| Enjoyment | #4156 | 2.063 | 2.063 |
| Presentation | #4625 | 2.000 | 2.000 |
Ranked from 16 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 fight with dice, but have ways to alter the chances by swapping dice
Did your team create the vast majority of the art during the 48 hours?
No
We used pre-existing art
Did your team create the vast majority of the music during the 48 hours?
No
We used pre-existing audio
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It's... so smooth you don't believe it is online, right?
You can try with 2 computers / comp+phone
it is an actual IO game with added effort to hide internet lags (i used extrapolation and interpolation plus client side box2d to predict server state, and have the server dictate the true game state)
i have successfully coded all that server code during the jam. the client side comes from an old project though.
Well, that left me with no time with the game logic so it is what it is.
Thanks for trying and rating tho
Hmm. As long as you're not trying to trick people into thinking it is real multiplayer, I guess so. Real multiplayer just makes more sense if real skill-tests are involved but nobody will invest the time in mastering a game's mechanic when testing jam games. Maybe check out this video regarding fake multiplayer:
thanks for recognising the hard work on it
Its front end is scrapped from a ggj project 2 years ago.
The backend is from scratch, on top of my 5 years experience with socket.io code (this would be about the 5th rewrite as well)
But some of the time was spent upgrading that old code to work in new js environment
1 year ago(+1)
I'm not sure about the goal of the game or how it works, but I did have fun making a colorful overpowered(?) spinner XD
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