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A jam submission

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A simple game inspired by the unofficial game of Death Roll most commonly seen in World of Warcraft between players.
Submitted by Sorex Logic — 14 hours, 2 minutes before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Audio#42222.7062.706
Artwork#47172.8242.824
Creativity#66872.5292.529
Narrative#69311.7651.765
Enjoyment#78611.8821.882

Ranked from 17 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?
A looping game of chance! How long can you keep your luck going against RNG?

(Optional) Please credit all assets you've used
Teknishun for the code and visual assets and Brandon Fiechter for the music.

(Optional) What would you like to be called if GMTK features your game?
Teknishun

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Comments

Submitted(+1)

A start! As is, it's sort of just a slot machine, without much feedback. As others have said, the only decision you really make is how much money you bet, and it's not to any particular end. Perhaps you could challenge the player to reach a certain goal within a certain amount of bets (thus making that decision more interesting and incentivising taking risks). Sometimes even just improving the feedback the game gives you can add to the experience. The music is a nice background, but stuff like sfx for dice rolling, having the dice roll across the screen, having a character that reacts to the rolls, having actual trophy items to win, having moving parts in the background, using font effects and animations to emphasise the action -- that sort of stuff can elevate even a bland gameplay loop to something that's more engaging to interact with. (In fact, that's basically what real slot machines do! The flashing lights and moving parts distract you form the fact you're really just pulling a lever.)

Alas, as others have said, ideally though there'd be a little more to it than just RNG on a scrolling text box. If it's one of your first games though, it's a start! And having made something is always better than having made nothing. Hope you keep making games or find an interesting angle to build on this from!

Developer

Yes this was my very first complete game. Thanks for the in-depth feedback!

Submitted(+1)

As others said. Pure dice rolling with no other input is meh. Maybe shop where you can spend your money for items to influence the rolls? Small something could push this to a good game. The art is good. Having the text as is. Its kinda hard to follow, f.e. if CPU played, sometimes i didnt even registered it and kept waiting bcs he rolled the same number so there was 0 text movement. 

Submitted(+1)

good visuals but i think the interpretation of the theme was a bit weak.

Submitted(+1)

Artwork is great, but sad that there is no decisions in the game

Developer(+1)

Thanks for the feedback, much appreciated!

(+1)

Not really that fun, RNG can be a fun core mechanic when you have some control over it but this just felt like flipping a coin over and over again. Music and art were good though!

Developer

Indeed, the only control would be to bet 0, but due to a bug if you bet 0 it bets the last amount entered. Thank you so much for the feedback!