YOU are the Dice! - GMTK GameJam 2023 Devlog

[@guibel844]

I think the best part of GMTK is watching the devlogs of each participants. I already watched 5 devlogs including yours

[@ezthedev]

Haha I'm doing the same! Love seeing how ideas come together and different takes.. and sometimes just purely entertaining.

[@mrsaluyt]

I watched almost 10 😂

[@ParanoidBebop]

Really cool concept and really ambitious for 48 hours. I really enjoy your videos, keep up the good work! Sending love to your puppers, she's a cutie!

[@ezthedev]

thank you for your support! and puppers appreciate your love haha

[@ThinkWithGames]

Cool to see all the unique games and ideas that came out of this jam!

[@ezthedev]

Ikr? It's great to see such great games and unique ideas pop up!

[@coloroptimist4602]

That dice character is so adorable!~ great idea!! I can hear the sound effects when you roll'em

[@ezthedev]

Thank you! I definitely wanted them to have "personality" haha.

[@Skeffles]

Great to see what you created! It's like a mix of this year and last years themes.

[@ezthedev]

Haha yea I didn't even realize the theme for last year until someone pointed out! What coincidence hahs

[@NKCubed]

man this would be such a cool choose your own adventure type thing

[@ezthedev]

I know right?! I'm hoping I can really clean the idea up some day haha

[@adventuretuna]

bro really joined last year's and this year's gmtk game jam at the same time 😂

[@ezthedev]

omg i was wondering what you meant. and realized last year's theme was "roll of the dice" haha.. i mistakenly made up for the jam i missed last year i guess.. haha

[@froseph85]

Cool idea. A few idea to expand on the concept: Have a "party" of dice with different number of faces and you can choose which dice are rolled for each event. As the dice role, they become more "worn" and you choose which faces become more or less weighted. If the dice becomes too weighted, you risk the npc player/dm getting frustrated and retiring the dice from the board. To promote replay, you can create different storylines for the DM to narrate that branch off depending on the results of certain dice rolls.

[@ezthedev]

Thanks! That's a really interesting idea to actually have different dice to choose from! That also has potential for including some interesting - non-number faces as part of the mechanics. And yes! i really wanted (want to) include some sort of actual storyline between the DM and the player character to have a secondary interest on moving the story in certain way as well! sounds super fun!

[@legendaryredfox]

Hahahahaha amazing!

[@jacobgray3112]

The idea is 10/10 for sure! Its a bit unfortunate that you couldn't bring the whole idea into the game but 48 hours really isn't much time.

[@ezthedev]

Thank you! Haha yea.. I definitely got a better feeling for what it's like as this was my first ever gamejam. I'm excited to expand on the idea and experience from this one tho, so all in all good fun!

[@beardyluke]

It was my first Jam ever as well! And I made a devlog about it... The pixel art dragon looks amazing! Great work

[@ezthedev]

Oh! I'll have to check it out!

[@ezthedev]

Congrats on your first btw! Woo hoo we did it!

[@Doubled_8]

Game looks cool and fun both the the pixil art for the dragon and the player/GM look really good even though the players was rushed. I really like the idea and the execution was really exciting. Your dog is so adorable and I hope they get better!

[@ezthedev]

Thank you for a thorough review comment! Thanks for watching!