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A jam submission

Rogue DiceView game page

This is a small rogue-like(ish) prototype where you use dice to move your player around a level.
Submitted by Vimlark (@vimlark) — 5 hours, 18 minutes before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Overall#1774.0194.019
Enjoyment#2183.8553.855
Presentation#2614.2304.230
Creativity#2663.9713.971

Ranked from 491 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?
It's a roll and move rogue-like. The roll of the dice decide how you move and what you can do.

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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Submitted

love this game peak quality 

Submitted (1 edit)

Pretty nice game, Vimlark!

You managed to incorporate the luck aspect of the dice but maintain an agency of the player with wether using or not a result. Some devs struggled with this in the jam, and when the player fell they can't control, the game looses interest very quickly.

I'd say it would be nice not to go back to lvl1 on death, but I guess you did it on purpose.

If i'm right, the levels were randomly generated? Felt so, this was a nice touch that gives a lot of replayability.

All in all, a super polished and fun game :)

PS: I'm a relatively new subscriber on your yt channel and this was my first jam, in many aspects I entered due to your videos, they gave me that push I needed for exercising gamedesign :)

Submitted

Perfect

Submitted

Found the game very original and liked the artstyle

Submitted

Really neat concept! I made sure to grab every coin. The only thing IMO that would have made it better is if there was a way to save dice for the next turn!

Submitted

Big fan of your channel :) This was super fun! All the animations and were super satisfying and the gameplay is great!

Submitted

Cool concept. I wish it was harder, though! After I figured out the mechanics, I never truly felt in danger of losing.

Cool take on the theme. Love that it’s also a deck builder. Think it has a potential.

Maybe introduce some danger that gradually increases as you stay in a level? Something like the ghost in spelunky, or the federation army in FTL? That way, staying longer for more gold is a gamble.

Also, after removing the movement dice, there wasn’t really much more to upgrade in the deck, so I ended up not buying anything the last level or two.

I like how the movement previews make it really easy to see where you’d end up!

Well done :)

Submitted

I really like how giving three dice at a time turns the mechanic from what I would assume would be frustrating into something delightful. The art style is wonderful. My only complaint would be that levels felt a little too samey, and the different dice didn't feel different enough. Great job!

Submitted

I really like the idea (I did something similar)! It can get a bit frustrating when you need a specific number and you have to waste turns until you get it, but that's the only gripe I had with it.

Submitted

Artstyle is fantastic, gameplay is creative and not too frustrating, and the music is nice though it does get a bit repetitive in the end. The game is quite short, but for what it was, i really enjoyed it! I would have loved seeing more types of enemies and obstacles, as well as several new kind of die. Also, i would have liked knowing which dice were in my bag. Great job!

Submitted

This is a really cool proof-of-concept and the presentation is top-notch. Right now, the gameplay feels a bit lackluster, though. Like, I can feel there's a great game in there, it just doesn't quite click with me yet.

I think I have two main gripes with this game:

1. The dicebuilding aspect doesn't feel relevant. The levels don't really seem to get a lot harder over time and I feel like you could probably currently easily complete the game with your starting dice. Which also means there's not much point in collecting gold.

2. The gameplay itself feels too dependent on the dice you roll. Yeah, sure, that's the theme of the game, but it just feels like it takes a bit too much control from the player.

I think for the first point, a steeper difficulty curve would help. For the second point, I'm not quite sure. Maybe try to play with dice values or something? Or maybe even small things like not having to land exactly on the level exit and having 2-tile wide passages would help, I don't know.

Also, minor point to note, teleport dice are not strictly better than movement dice, as you can't collect coins and the key on the way.

Anyway, I'd love to see where this concept could be taken with more time!

Submitted

Great game but I did not expect to restart whole game after one death

Submitted (2 edits)

First impression is really good. However I found the gameplay a bit frustrating, especially when you cannot get the correct dice. Maybe simply let the player to hold some dice can solve this problem a bit? Right now it feels like there's nothing to do except wandering around and waiting for the correct die.

But the quality of the game is really high and its still fun to play. Great job!

this is amazing!!!

Submitted

This was great! I didn't even mean to play through the entire thing. But I got caught up just having a lot of fun. Both the game concept and presentation were amazing.

If I had to nitpick, I would say that some of the strategizing was weird. I never knew if me passing turns with unused dice was ever a bad idea. And I would always buy more dice, just to see what happened, but never thinking if it was worth it.

Aside from that, this game was great.  I'm a big fan of your work, and I think you made another winner!

Submitted

Music, Sound, and Art all are professional.

Didn't really enjoy the gameplay all that much. I ended up spending several turns wandering in a circle around the ladder because I could not roll the dice I needed. 

Seen this gameplay in a few other titles. I think Rogue Dice by Carson_23 (even has the same name as yours) slightly improves on the formula by not forcing you in one direction. 

Overall, great presentation but I disliked the mechanics. 

Submitted

This is a very interesting take on the jam's topic. Unfortunately, the game didn't motivate me enough to collect coins or defeat enemies. I only did it if i rolled the right dice. I was able to complete the game with just one purchase in the shop. This is probably mainly due to the fact that the enemies can only move one tile at the time and there is only one enemie variant. I never had the case that the enemies tried to surround me. Nonetheless, I had a great time playing this game. Amazing job!

Submitted

I'm a big fan of roguelikes, so this was right up my alley.

Submitted

Interesting rolling mechanic. Its a little similar to the rolling mechanic in my entry. Overall good stuff

Submitted

As expected, high quality game with pretty visuals, nice sound design and great implementation of the theme

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