This is possibly the best and most polished version of Ur on this site. The sounds and animation logic for hopping or sliding the pieces are a nice touch.
If you're interested in quality of life improvements, the camera switching sides between player turns is slightly distracting, especially when a zero is rolled. I know people often like to see a chessboard from their side, but I doubt a race game really needs it.
Rolling the dice with the spacebar would also be nice, since I'm playing on desktop.
Other than that, it controls very intuitively. I've played versions that required me to select the piece and then the location, as if this were backgammon. Your version makes much more sense, since the dice can't be split.
I have to ask, is the whistling in the background based on the song from the Bad Lip Reading video on The Emperor Strikes Back?
This is based on the simplified rules by Irvin Finkel which he described. There are also more compilicated rules but perhaps needlessly complicated for a quick fun game :D
I can't open the game. I've tried re-installing and starting a few times but it only opens a window to a progress bar that never finishes. Is there anything I can do to fix this? This game looks rad.
I did consider adding like a physics based dice-system but I noticed personally that when playing alot you kinda want the diceroll to happen quickly so you can get to planning your move so I scrapped the idea.
Technically I could like animate the actual dice-stones to roll or bounce somehow if I do revisions at some point :D
I've been playing alot with my girlfriend since I made this. I'd be fun to add like a mobile version and multiplayer if that's no too much at some point :D
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This is possibly the best and most polished version of Ur on this site. The sounds and animation logic for hopping or sliding the pieces are a nice touch.
If you're interested in quality of life improvements, the camera switching sides between player turns is slightly distracting, especially when a zero is rolled. I know people often like to see a chessboard from their side, but I doubt a race game really needs it.
Rolling the dice with the spacebar would also be nice, since I'm playing on desktop.
Other than that, it controls very intuitively. I've played versions that required me to select the piece and then the location, as if this were backgammon. Your version makes much more sense, since the dice can't be split.
I have to ask, is the whistling in the background based on the song from the Bad Lip Reading video on The Emperor Strikes Back?
Thanks! 😂 No The background music is creative commons music.
Thanks for The feedback The camera has Been mentioned before and especially while playing PVE it is unnecessary to rotate The kamera.
I might update this at some point and I'll check these comments for feedback when the that time comes.
I'm glad you like it.
I like the camera switch. Thanks for making Kevin beatable - learned a brand new game just by jumping in!
That's wonderful! Thanks for playing.
Yeah, Kevin doesn't think ahead that much :D
I’m pleased to see someone recreating the game that I saw YouTube videos about. And the rules are all consistent as far as my 10th replay is aware.
This is based on the simplified rules by Irvin Finkel which he described. There are also more compilicated rules but perhaps needlessly complicated for a quick fun game :D
I can't open the game. I've tried re-installing and starting a few times but it only opens a window to a progress bar that never finishes. Is there anything I can do to fix this? This game looks rad.
There’s the HTML5 version of the game that you can play in the browser, right in the game’s main itch page.
Perhaps you have some settings wrong with you OpenGL in your browser?
This was a nice implementation of the game, I enjoyed playing a game against the first AI to test it out :)
I'm glad you liked it!
Could you make it less apparent that the game is rigged on Irvin's favor?
It really is not :D I promise you the dice rolls are completely randomized with 4x 4 sided die :D
Irvin always gets the rolls he needs?? And I always get 1.
Propably not ALWAYS as I am quite sure the code rolls 4 dice with a chance to land on 0 or 1 :D
Love this version of the classic game! Would love a little animation to represent rolling the dice before showing their results
I did consider adding like a physics based dice-system but I noticed personally that when playing alot you kinda want the diceroll to happen quickly so you can get to planning your move so I scrapped the idea.
Technically I could like animate the actual dice-stones to roll or bounce somehow if I do revisions at some point :D
Even if they just spun a little before displaying their outcome would help add to the feeling of a thing happening
Polish is 50% of a game after all, Right you are.
I agree! :)
Oh thanks again to whoever bought this free game :D I really appreciate your donations. They make me feel like a real game developer :D :D :D
good
I'm glad you enjoyed it!
Really really neat execution!! ❤️
Thanks! I did spend alot of time on this. I'm thinking I might do some added features at sometime if I get the urge
I've been waiting for this ever since I saw the youtube vid. It's actually a lot of fun!
I've been playing alot with my girlfriend since I made this. I'd be fun to add like a mobile version and multiplayer if that's no too much at some point :D
So relaxing to play! I love the background music and sounds.
I can only take credit for the stone SFX everything else is Creative Commons but i did slide some rocks on a cuttingboard :D
That's real dedication to make a sound effect!
It all sounds and looks great- awesome game :D