Really amazing. I'm so curious about how you present 2d game in 3d space. There must be some brilliant technique behind the scene. Just rotating the interactable 2d objects(they are apprently more than just textures) is already beyond my imagination.
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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Overall | #2 | 4.603 | 4.603 |
| Creativity | #3 | 4.617 | 4.617 |
| Presentation | #7 | 4.734 | 4.734 |
| Enjoyment | #10 | 4.457 | 4.457 |
Ranked from 94 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?
I incorporated the theme of dice by designing the player as a die pip and the levels as cubic dice which must be navigated. The user's primary interaction with the world and the focus of the game's mechanics is through rotation of space, hence roll of the dice.
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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1 year ago (+2)
Thanks!! I did it using render textures ("Viewports" in Godot, the engine I used) . I laid out the faces of a cube in a 2D scene with 2D physics, and designed everything there, with a Viewport rendering the whole span of all six faces to a texture. I then used this to texture a cube, being very careful to match the UVs of the texture to the correct faces. The camera following the player was a challenge, as I had to project the player's position in the 2D space onto a position in 3D space that matched where they were visually, and figure out which direction it should be oriented such that the camera's "down" direction matched the player's - whichever direction that is at the given time. As the player moves from face to face, they're warped around to the correct locations and their orientation is changed appropriately (warp zones are seen in blue below! Each has their own transformation matrix representing the effects on the player's orientation when it's passed)
It was a fun challenge for sure! Level design was mind-bending given that everything was laid out flat, but I think I managed to come up with some neat designs in the end :3
Here's a preview of what Level 6, "Circuit," looks like in editor with this technique.
1 year ago(+1)
I'm glad you liked it, thanks for the rating!!
I looked at your game and the Flat Pack one, it's interesting to see that people have had ideas like this before! I enjoyed your idea of going off of the edge of the cube. I was partially considering expanding this project and writing my own engine for it, though now I know there are similar games out there already that I should steer clear of :D
As for submitting it 12 hours early, that was just an early build in case my internet or itch went down before the deadline x3 This took me every minute I could get!
1 year ago(+1)
Thanks for the thoughtful feedback! In terms of expanding it later, I think you're absolutely right. It was a challenge to come up with levels as is, and I think if I added many more I'd run out of interesting things to explore. (However, I noticed immediately after submitting that the way I wrote my code actually allows the player to go inside the cube as well if I made some sort of hole in the face of the cube, which could have been cool!) Thanks again for playing, glad you enjoyed it :D
1 year ago(+1)
Designing levels on a cube was definitely a challenge! In-engine, I set it up so that each face of the cube is layed out side by side in 2D, so picturing how they all fit together was a brain burner @~@
Thanks for playing and for the kind words :D
maybe rotating the camera would work. Whether it’s letting the player rotate it or have the camera rotate as the player approaches an edge, or showing where the player will land before they jump or all them combined. The thing I found with this kind of game is guessing where you’ll go next feels a bit fiddly sometimes. It’s understandable if learning the layout of the levels is intentional. But guessing a jump can be a little frustrating from time to time. It’s a solid entry, overall. I like the rain idea a lot as well.
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