Piece Combat
Defend against waves of aggressive shapes by placing units that are chosen by a roll of the dice!
This game was made for the 2022 GMTK Game Jam with the theme of "Roll the Dice" by three game dev YouTubers: n8dev, AIA, and Icoso. Because we are creative geniuses, we incorporated the theme with a rolling die.
To play, roll the die by clicking on it, and place units to defend your crystal from the enemy shapes.
Any ratings, bugs, and feedback are greatly appreciated! Subscribe to our channels so you don't miss our videos on the rollercoaster of a game jam we had :)
All assets were made during the jam, by us. Source code: https://github.com/natecurtiss/gmtk-2022
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We've provided a web version and a Windows version. The web version works fine but the Desktop version looks better :D
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I welly lov you game
A really nice Tower-Defense-Like game you guys made.
Thanks!
Thank you!
Cool game!
fank youuuu
frank you
Thanks!
Nice... I wished I could roll the dice with a button though so I don't have to swipe across the screen XD
I can totally see this. Wish we would have thought of it! lol
Haha yeah we've gotten that a lot
I like the concept, but I am conflicted by the execution:
- Only being able to reroll the dice with a click seems completely impractical. Rerolling it with the space bar would make it feel so much better and reduce unnecessary mouse movements that are just stressful.
- There is little intentionality in player actions. Most of the time I get better results when I focus on placing as many weapons as possible rather than placing them strategically.
- The blue dot creates a barrier, but when an enemy creates a barrier they don't get killed immediately. Instead, they just wait for a bit until the barrier goes away and then continue. And since you can't place any weapons over the barriers it is a secured hit! It literally is better to place nothing than to place barriers!
Great presentation, but it is just a bit frustrating that the other game elements don't feel as polished.
This is great feedback and I totally agree. Spacebar would be a great addition to roll, I'd honestly like the roll to also be a bit longer, right now, as you suggest, it really does kinda become "place as many units as possible". Because of the short timeframe we didn't get a ton of time to balance and test everything, possibly a bit of overscoping
That's a lot of awesome feedback. Thanks for taking the time to play!
I was there on the stream yesterday, and it’s just as fun as it looked! Glad I was able to help you guys with the dice (and got promoted to “good friend Adam”)
Legendary Adam with the big assist
haha
Yesss Adam
i like this game
Nice :)
:D