Fun little idle game, nice art as well
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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Enjoyment | #36 | 4.259 | 4.259 |
| Overall | #313 | 3.851 | 3.851 |
| Creativity | #479 | 3.793 | 3.793 |
| Presentation | #1251 | 3.500 | 3.500 |
Ranked from 58 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 Heroes was inspired by the idea that rolling dice never seems fair. Too many times I was burnt in XCom with a 97% chance to hit! So what if you could tilt the dice in your favor? What if you could step on the scales? That was my inspiration. Dice Heroes utilizes Dice Upgrades as its core mechanic that allows the players to "tilt" the odds in their favor. Also... I mean... *DICE* heroes 🎲.
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
Comments
.:° Enjoyment °:.
I post just a picture, that should definitively say how much I enjoyed it
.:° Creativity °:.
I totally enjoyed the spin of dungeon crawler taken here. Buy dices and evolve your dices and I also can see a huge potential within this idea. Different heroes, positioning, different dices that have different base effects and so on.
.:° Presentation °:.
I really adore this art-style. UI was good too but should be tweaked within the future developement time. I totally see this game on steam one day and I gonna buy it.
.:° Score °:.
5/4/5
Stay crunchy.
Thank you for the detailed feedback and kind words and I'm glad you liked it :)
Your feedback is totally inline with my own feedback and potential evolution. Also nailed that I really wanted to spiff up the UI but just didn't have enough time 😅
My friends have already conned me to adding an endless mode after the jam update page is finished, so stay tuned!
1 year ago(+1)
Tuning the "Go Back" was hard. Originally I had it tick over a square 10 times per second, but that seemed too fast for the first few zones. I think a good mechanism, in hindsight after resting after the jam, would probably be to make it faster as you go further through the board. I.e. first 1-5 you go back per tile 2 times per second, but once you reach the boss room it goes at 15 times per second? Worth exploring.
You also nailed one of the optimal builds. Another tweak that should be made is raising the "Min" cost of the dice and also raise the price of a crit. Probably 30G for min raising and then 70G for crit raising? A minor nerf would go a long way to encouraging dice variability.
But I think ultimately I'd want there to be more variety so there isn't just *one* optimal build. I like games that the player can "break", so introducing more build ideas would be my preference :)
Thank you for the kind words!
Yep, having low cost for raising maximum is fun, so I would not touch that, but you're right with increasing cost for low-end to avoid situations with high equal min-max (+crit). It all comes down to testing that nerf. I hope you'll figure something out and I get to play the enhanced version in the future. Cheers!
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