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| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Rank | Ov | Fu | In | Th | Gr | Au | Hu | Mo | |
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| 2025 | 58 | Collector | DiceKeeper | jam | 342 | 3.58 | 3.77 | 3.25 | 3.07 | 3.52 | 3.36 | 2.97 | 3.36 |
Pretty nice to see Farkle as I also made a game based on it in this jam! The approach and priorities on what features to implement have been different, and it was nice to check it out. I have noticed that using `save & reroll` with all dice remaining selected causes the game to roll on 0 dice and you instantly lose instead of re-rolling 6 dice. Nice work overall.
Nice and chill game, I like how you have repurposed the mushroom concept art and used it as a ending screen background at the end.
I have noticed that the grass texture has enabled the texture repeat setting creating these lines above grass:
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I would try making a game with smaller scope the next time, I can see some things that could have reduced the scope without making the experience too much worse like replacing/removing camera animations with some simple UI overlays.
Very good game either way!
Pretty nice game. I like that you have managed to add some nuance to pushing objects on a grid, specifically how you can swap places with `coco de mer` when pushing them towards the edge, and that you can kill your opponent with a large enough pile (and vice versa)
Very well made game! Everything fits together and it's very easy to understand. The only thing I found slightly annoying is that end of the day pulls you out of the fishing mini-game and stops you from catching a fish. Also, I have to ask, is this made in a custom engine?
Pretty chill game, I have noticed that the bigger the wind turbine the less power it produces per dollar, was the idea to incentivize players to place more rather than wait for the bigger wind turbine?
I really like this game, it has a nice combination of cozy gameplay with clicker-like mechanic of placing buildings that produce points/coins or in this case fish, but what differentiates from a typical clicker it is that you don't look at the same screen constantly clicking, but instead explore the island and talk with the villagers, which is a standout feature. The audio and graphics are great!
I really like the game from the visual perspective, the UI, music and the art-style overall is very consistent. Weirdly enough, even though I got to 16k on my first playthrough, I thought I wasn't getting how the gameplay works, but after reading other comments it seems that my assumptions were correct on how the game works. I feel like adding an indicator telling the player "hey you did good this turn" would go a long way. Maybe highlighting each region in a color ranging from red to green based on currently tiles placed and enforced policies/purchased tiles/upgrades?
This is a prime example that it's better to make a game with a simple core loop so that you can expand on it and make it way more fun than if you were to make a game with a larger scope, the visuals and sounds are great, it's so easy to grasp the game that the tutorial is just 4 simple sentences and the rest is obvious. I only wish that there was some mechanic that would prevent you from losing uncollected slime juice when you run out of stamina.
This game is very chill with great graphics, I was honestly surprised by the quantity of butterflies (48 if I'm counting correctly) and that it has a server that keeps track of best scores from the whole playerbase. I have found an odd bug where only every odd character can use capital letters thanks to the unusual capitalization that I use in my username.
The game looks great, and I like the mechanics of it, however I think I have ran into every single bug/rough edges that the game has. You can polish a object without holding the angle grinder which causes it to not make a sound indicating that the object is polished (and I couldn't then return it to the customer after completing all the tasks), you cannot repair when the electricity is out and it took me a while to realize that it was out as the ceiling fans were still spinning, for some reason my pause menu simply wasn't working, none of the buttons actuate. It's still an pretty impressive game especially given the time-frame it was made in.
@nekobones you can hold TAB to see the points table, there's a small text in the bottom-left. (the same as the first image in the description of this page) It's my first time sharing a game with anyone else, so I don't have experience in making things more obvious, and I should have shown it in the center until you press TAB once.
@beebster-games Hovering over the scores should hide them for as long as your cursor is in that position.
@senso I have been refraining from participating in earlier jams because of the lack of a web build (but from what I have seen it's not as bad as I thought it would be), also I have not mentioned it anywhere but it's made in a custom engine and I did not consider making it compatible with web when making it. If I wanted to adapt it for the web I would have to change everything related to files, switch windowing lib from GLFW to SDL (since emscripten only supports SDL), drop all modern features of OpenGL as WebGL does not have them, also since my engine is heavily multi-threaded the website I host it on would have to have it enabled (it's disabled by default since it poses a security risk for older CPUs) so it wouldn't work on itch.io, but would in here (LDJAM), and obviously there are more issues that I'm not aware of as I have not tried to go this path. Also it is allowed to update games as long as it is documented and it only contains support for other platforms or bugfixes, if it was trivial in my case I would have done so.
@toppervideogames I had planned to show 6 dice slots allowing you to rearrange dice (since their effects trigger in order) and replace some die when all 6 slots are already occupied, but I have not managed t o implement it in time so after all 6 slots are occupied the upgrade menu doesn't do anything.
@t-c Yeah... the game has no end goal, the 100k points goal is just there to stop you, you should consider the game beaten once you reach level 10
@t-c ✋😐🤚 You have caught me! The goals are in a fixed array, and the last one was supposed to stop you from from indexing out of bounds, I could have clamped the level value and it wouldn't crash, but it would show 100k+/100k at the score, the better way would have been to design a custom score curve in Desmos and use that to get an infinite amount of levels... but I didn't get to it during the jam. Also what was the strategy if you don't mind sharing?
@t-c That makes perfect sense to me, instead of making the score multipliers multiplicative with each other they should be additive so it would result in 18x multiplier for the 3x devil die instead of a massive 216x.
I can imagine it is very time consuming to get all the dice correctly in order *(with some small leeway)* since you need all devil die before the mirror (equilibrium die would also work in here, and yield the same score, but it requires at least one more valid group like 1x 5 or 1x 1)
I like the unique artstyle, I wish it would be consistently sharp though, Unity has an experimental package called `Vector Graphics` that allows you to use SVG files as textures in the sprite renderer, if you plan to stick to the artstyle (in your future games) I would recommend using that package along some tool that converts raster graphics into vector so you don't have to change your existing tooling. [(like this one)](https://www.vectorizer.io)