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Stien

By bauke-regnerus

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall2163.9454
Fun4203.7054
Innovation3143.7154
Theme13172.8054
Graphics4093.9754
Audio1673.9353
Humor3553.5748
Mood3483.7853

Comments

baknik 2021-10-04 22:03

It took me a bit to understand how to play, but this concept seems very sound. Great polish on the art!

bunnybones 2021-10-04 22:04

I'm not sure I understood the mechanics but the presentation is wonderful.

fedev 2021-10-04 22:24

Very nice game! I really enjoyed it! Great humor, sounds and cool graphics! Nice work!

lexian 2021-10-05 09:09

Maybe the whole game needs a little guidance on the rules,Music is relaxing,The art is also NICE!

bauke-regnerus 2021-10-05 11:01

@lexian Thanks for the feedback. I just added better instructions to the LD page, as well as updated the ingame instructions. I hope it helps!

adam-gould 2021-10-05 12:05

That was a fun game! It feels very polished - my main criticism is that the tie-in with the theme feels very tenuous and "tacked-on", as though the game was put together first and then the theme added afterwards.

reronin 2021-10-05 12:07

Nice entry! How did you decide on 3 dice? I would've loved to play with 5(and choose 3) as well, to see how that goes.

bauke-regnerus 2021-10-05 12:37

@reronin Thanks. The idea was Yahtzee where you need to hit specific combinations to trigger special abilities (or cards), but 5 cards also means a hell more possible combo's. So I brought is down to 3. It makes it easier to learn, although still many seems to struggle with the learning curve.

tchaiko 2021-10-05 12:41

dice, cards and fantasy setting. Hell yeah

littlew00d 2021-10-05 13:20

I like the graphics and the sound and music was amazing and very catchy. A bit of a learning curve to this game, especially as I didn't know if I could use the card's ability. The pace of the game is a little slow, but that's mostly due to the dice rolling.

I think that entry really needs a checkpoint system as I would've like to retried to beat the enemy that I died against rather than start from the beginning.

bauke-regnerus 2021-10-05 14:02

@littlew00d Thanks for the feedback. Well, it's a rogue-like after all, but I understand your feelings about it and might patch a permadeath toggle in.

gamesplusjames 2021-10-05 14:39

This was really cool! Love the graphics! Great work!

gamepopper 2021-10-05 14:46

Very well polished dice/card battle RPG, although I'm not very good at them so I'm struggling to get past the second character. Still like the amount of strategy in it, but there is a lot of luck to it too.

andreadbx 2021-10-05 15:11

Nice game! There should be a way to play around the RNG, something maybe like cards that can be used regardless of the dices, intresting idea and very nice execution!

potkirland 2021-10-05 16:37

good very well done game i like the mechanics and i can see myself playing this again and again... if you can extend the game and make it into a full release i think this has potential

yigit-doruk 2021-10-05 21:10

Nice concept with also a good execution. Definitely feels like a finished product. Even these type of games are not my cup of tea, it greally got my attention. Music is also very nice, but there are some problems with the audio shuttering. If you add more polish into gameplay and overall feel, this game could really shine and start to show its potential. I'm looking forward to see where this project goes. Keep up the good work <3

tetrapteryx 2021-10-05 22:20

The music is really good! The whole game has a nice chill vibe. I made it as far as the aardman. I could see myself playing a lot of this, I'd love to see the concept taken further into a full game.

andidebob 2021-10-06 05:16

Such a cool game. At first glance it reminds me a lot of dicey dungeons, but the mechanics are suprisingly different and work really well. That combined with with this super nice artstyle and some fun music... Really cool. I would love to see more content, more classes, enemies and cards. Very well done!

deprecat 2021-10-06 16:11

I'm such a sucker for Yahtzee lol.

I love this spin on the game! The addition of RNG makes it feel similar to a DnD fight system while still accounting for strategy.

The card option also adds a good sense of strategy as well, giving you the feeling of an "ace up your sleeve".

The art is nice and suits the theming, the music is good and audio leveling is well done. I like the little overworld map, it reminds me of Bust a Move 2.

Very well done! Excited to see if you take this concept further.

jin9310 2021-10-06 18:49

Really great stuff, feels very polished and quite original! Great job done!

itsboats 2021-10-07 00:12

The art style is so clean and charming and I love the game idea!

I REALLY wanted to be able to finish the game, but there were a couple times I got really unlucky D:

Here's some minor suggestions I have in case you plan on working on this project more: -if player dies, let them restart the level instead of restarting them to beginning of game -change the visual slightly for when you are choosing what dice to keep. I kept messing up because sometimes I was thinking I was picking which dice to reroll. I think moving the dice a little bit or putting a label over the ones you click that says "keep" could help with that -The rng can feel really punishing, so maybe numbers could be fudged a little bit to give you a slight luck advantage -I didn't even think of this one, but someone else suggested a 5 dice mode and I think that would be AWESOME too!

jega-studio 2021-10-07 19:50

Love the idea! Graphcs and sounds are quite charming

vimlark 2021-10-07 20:07

Absolutely loved it! I would totally play a whole game of this :)

ottodan 2021-10-07 20:47

Really polished and fun game!

t90 2021-10-09 12:00

Very polished and fun! Especially liked these little but cute animations along with "kinda-voices". Overall smooth and balanced execution.

justcamh 2021-10-09 13:52

Hey matey, thanks for submitting your game to stream, it was a lot of fun! Here's a link to the vod if you'd like to rewatch: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1171753717

nicekot 2021-10-09 16:12

Amazing entry to LD! Sound, style, gameplay it's all so impressive. I like how you combined dice rolls and cards. Though cards mechanic wasn't obvious at start.

wendel-scardua 2021-10-10 00:37

The UI looks really polished, the help tooltip with the rules during gameplay is a nice touch. To compensate for the RNG I think it would be nice to be allowed 2 rerolls per turn, like other similar games usually do.

frank-gevaerts 2021-10-10 20:41

A very nice game! Excellent music choice, and excellent graphics and sound effects. I spent a while playing it.

The one niggle I have is that you can mouse over the cards to see what they do at *most* times, but not when you have to pick a card, i.e. when you need it most. Of course after a while you know :)

hawkin 2021-10-10 21:26

This was well done! I really loved everything about it -- the artwork, the music, the pacing. Even the rage mechanic hehe. Honestly, no critiques.

debone 2021-10-10 21:44

Thanks for the game! I had plenty of fun from the mechanic and I think this game has a potential! You made it very complete and polished!

I feel like there’s a lot of space for balancing here because I tried to play it a dozen of times, I managed to arrive to paladin 3 times and I never passed they. I think I made one mistake with the cards ordering by using a more powerful card with lower number and later not having the card to deal more points, but it wouldn’t have helped me. The problem I see is that there’s too much to luck here, I felt powerless and frustrated when I died.

Another thing that contributed to my frustration was that I could not power play the game. The game plays very fluid and some of the transitions are essential to place what’s the status of the game, but at times I felt that the transitions were too slow and the game was just having a delay to start the next round or something. That started to get me when I just wanted to throw the next dice and go faster. In the end there’s at least 50% of idle time in the game (opponent playing + phase transitions), and that doesn’t help retention.

coleslaughter 2021-10-11 00:29

[Thanks for submitting your game to stream!](https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1172137556?t=03h54m15s)

Good lord, did I suck at this one...But I had such a blast playing it! I can totally see this getting expanded upon in the future. Let me know if you ever decide to do that!

elysiagriffin 2021-10-11 14:44

Hi there! Thanks for submitting your game for me to play live during my Twitch stream!

If you’d like to rewatch the playthrough, you can find it here:

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1173717245?t=2h53m4s

Good luck on your ratings, see you next LD! :D

💜 Elysia Griffin AKA Button Feedback Lady

https://www.twitch.tv/elysiagriffin

lereveur 2021-10-11 18:21

Simple, challenging, and fun! Interesting concept, even if I didn't manage to pass over the cultist :sweat_smile: I liked arts and mood too. Well done!