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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Gameplay | #24 | 2.545 | 2.545 |
| Overall | #35 | 2.364 | 2.364 |
| Theme | #36 | 2.455 | 2.455 |
| Sound | #45 | 2.182 | 2.182 |
| Aesthetics | #45 | 2.273 | 2.273 |
Ranked from 22 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
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Really fun simple bullet hell, the furthest I got was wave 12 (I'm bad). the game felt really smooth and the audio and visuals worked well. great work
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DIE Another Dayit's like galaga with diece and using physics to affect the randomness nice idea, all in all this looks like a polished game
P.S please try and rate my game
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Ghost Catcher the Haunted CasinoThe was fun and it's nice and simple and fun..
I wanna know what was the use of those big dice ??
Rated your game , It would meant a lot if you check our game and rate it too.
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Flip RunnerThe big dice serve two purposes:
- They are hazards the player needs to avoid (they clutter the play area later on)
- In order to rotate the falling dice, sometimes you need to hit them from the side or top, bullets will ricochet from the large dice and allow to hit falling dice from different angles. At the end that get a little complicated but they introduce some chaotic interactions that I found fun.
Iāll check and rate your game tonight.
It's a bullet hell shooter with elements similar to Galaga and class arcade games. Controls work fine. There aren't any bugs.
Thematically, it's all over the place. I play as a hand (why?) I'm shooting at stars that shoot me (why?) There are dice, and when you hit them your projectiles bounce off of them (why?) It seems like it has dice in it just to try and fit the theme, and so far as I can tell, there's no unique gameplay related to the dice. The dice might as well be any other object in the game, anything that rotates when you shoot it, any other thing that hurts you when it hits you. It all kind of blends together and becomes grey. There isn't anything to make this stand out.
You call it "The Die is Cast" Why? Is there any gameplay that relates to this theme, or is it just another phrase related to dice, so that might as well be the name? If the gameplay is in there, it's not made clear to me.
I've played some of your other games, and I get a general feeling that while all of them technically "work" from a functionality standpoint (no bugs, controls fine, there's a start, middle, and end) they're lacking a unique gameplay hook to draw me in and keep me engaged.
I think you would best be served as a designer by taking a step back from simply making games that "work". Go study some other successful games and try to pick apart the reasons why the design achieves what it does. Try to understand what makes a game like Voidigo or Enter the Gungeon tick, not just from a "can I code this" perspective, but as a holistic design.
Then take that design, strip it down to as few systems as you can, and try to make something with its own identity. I guarantee you it will do better than anything else you've made thus far.
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Deadly DiceHey Ted, thanks for your review. Many good points there. About the themes, yeah, there were a bunch of ideas I ran out of time for that would tie a lot of things together, including the title. I guess I got too ambitious and bite more than I could chew. There were several enemies themed around casinos, magicians and stage plays.
Iām a little disappointed I was not able to communicate the roll the dice theme better. The only way to score in the game is via the falling dice and you need to roll them to get them into the largest multiplier bin (in the center) and with the largest side facing out.
I was not expecting youād check some of my other projects but I am glad you did and you are absolutely correct. I have been learning Godot over the past 18 months so a lot of my projects have been self-imposed challenges in all kinds of generes, styles and mechanics. And they are all jam projects where I have been trying ideas and also seeing what people like or dislike. I feel like now I am well positioned to be able invest in a larger project where I can compile what worked in these jam projects and move it forward however I want now that I have the technical skills to do that. I am still undecided so any ideas will be helpful. Also, whatās your favorite game? I did take notes of all the ones you mentioned in Discord and I want to know what is that would please hard critics like you. And if you have any book or other resources Iād also be interested in learning about those. So far Iāve been working with āa theory of funā (r. koster) and āgame design workshopā (t. fullerton), and āunderstanding comicsā (s. mccloud).
This is the video that got me interested in game design:
I designed all of my puzzles in my first game, Mooselutions, this way. I think it also applies to other game genres. You have to play your games a lot to understand what's really happening in them.
Interesting idea. I like hitting and rotating the small dices, is very satisfying
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Dice Roll BattlefieldThe game design reminds me of something I played as a child. Well done!
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Dice ArenaThere was a point when I stopped trying to score and my fun became juggling and trying to keep as many dice in the air as possible lol. Donāt forget to rate our game too.
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Goblins RollHello! I see you on top of the leaderboard again. I feel I should make harder games just for you š About the dice I experimented with having less dice, different sizes and falling speeds. Having fewer larger slower dice made for a more strategic gameplay but didnāt feel fun or satisfying to me. I may have overcorrected too much. And for the leaderboard, like last time, there is a setting on the backend for that. I was waiting for it to fill up and only keep uniques. I already turned that on but I may need to think of another solution for next game.
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