Just roll the dice even if you don't understand the wall of texts!
Hopefully you will understand it soon.

Menu: First pick characters below ("Explorer", the button will become blue) then select stage.

(简中:https://betairya.itch.io/dice-quest-zh-cn

Information & HELP

Sorry we ran out of time and the in-game instructions are unclear. The tutorial stages ("village") may not be intuitive. 
Here we provide some additional instructions.

Dice Quest is a turn-based game. In every turn, you roll the dice to determine your action.

  • Click to select dices for re-roll.
  • No matter how many dices being chosen, 1 reroll chance will be used.

The dice

All dices have 6 faces. Each face are associated with a type ("image") and a number.

  • Type: will be used for patterns (your special spells).
  • Number: base attack of the dice.

Spells

Enemy rolls first then the player. After you are satisfied with your dices (or you have no rerolls), your action will be determined.

  • Each dice can be used multiple times for different patterns. However, 1 pattern will only be checked once.
Casting the spell
  • Firstly, dices that triggers the spell will be used for an additional dice attack round.
  • Then the spell will be casted (with basically no animation).
Spell info

During combat, information of spells will be shown on the left of the screen.

  • "oooo" means the pattern's shape. Dice "face" types are color-coded.
  • Spell name. (absolutely no naming sense)
  • Sum of all dices' attack within this spell (will be used for an additional attack round).
  • Extra damage of the spell. Green = healing.

Frozen dice

Water spells may freeze dices. Frozen dices cannot be rolled and its current value will be used.

Frozen dices will be shown with blue border.

Resources used:
Font: PixelMix (Andrew Tyler)
Sprites:

omg we somehow finally made it before the deadline ... !
Will never make anything this complicated in jams LMAO
But its fun!!

StatusPrototype
PlatformsWindows, HTML5
Rating
Rated 4.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Authorsbetairya, HANEKO
GenreAdventure, Role Playing
TagsGame Maker's Toolkit Jam, roll-a-dice

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(Windows x86-64) Dice Quest.zip 26 MB

Comments

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solid concept! I love the central idea of it and it could absolutely be grown into a fuller old-school-style rpg. reminds me a lot of 90s-era rpgs, and I mean that in a good way. the balance is way off but balancing this type of combat is super time-consuming and you did great for a gamejam. the slot-machine style visual of the dice roll looks good as hell, a great base to start from for polishing up. ultimately it's a great idea for a combat system that just needs a ton of balancing, playtesting, and polishing up before it will truly shine. A+ for effort and idea, but no wonder you ran out of time haha

Thank you for playing !!! So glad that you liked it.

Balancing them is indeed a nightmare xDDD

Interesting concept of gameplay.

I thought I'm going to be defeated. Until I got all the elements on the table. it's Judgement day for the Dwarf!!! So lucky :D

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Wow congratulations !!! kokusimusou ! (x
xD

Thankkk you for playing !!

 congratulations ! XD