{"id":2414,"edition":13,"categories":3,"features":1,"size":12628,"name":"Semi-Charmed Kind of Dice","authors":[{"name":"Daniel Whiffing","url":"http://directive.software","login":"dwhiffing","gh":4886651}],"description":"

How to play

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You have 13 days to score as many points as you can with your magic dice.

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Each time you roll, one of 3 things can happen:

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You may re-roll as many times as you like for more points and charms, but beware!\nIf you curse all your dice, you will lose all your profits and end the day with nothing.

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At the start of each day, you can spend your charms to upgrade your dice. Click any die to see a list of its faces, as well as after it is upgraded.

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Good luck, and spend your charms wisely!

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Controls

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Use your mouse or touch screen to play.

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Alternatively, use the following keys:

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This is pretty cool!

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My high score was 573. I wonder if that’s good.\nI managed to never curse all of my dice.\nIn one level, I got 30 charms, which felt like an achievement.

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The pacing of the game feels really good, and the music adds to that! Always kind of pushing you forwards. It has a tick-tock rhythm, a bump for the drop, if you will

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I will say that I wasn’t quite sure what was causing dice to give me points/charms/cats.

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But yeah, overall, fun game! Will play again!

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Thanks for playing! The best score I’ve seen is 1350.

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if you get a cat, you rolled low, if you get a charm you rolled high. If you get points, you rolled in the middle.

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You can see the faces by clicking on a die

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I feel I have a bit too few free-will as a player, only being able to press two buttons and hope for a nice random outcome. Besides that, well done, good sound too.

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Thanks for playing! A major part of your agency and success as a player is which upgrades you choose to buy, so that’s at least 4 buttons ;)

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Once I played a few rounds I figured it out. Simple concept but loved it. i reached 740 on my 3rd playthrough. Excellent job!

\n","games":["CatNFish"]},{"typ":1,"at":410784426,"re":410718804,"author":"Daniel Whiffing","login":"dwhiffing","gh":4886651,"url":"http://directive.software","text":"

Thanks for the kind feedback, and im glad you enjoyed it!

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Great music. I’m so bad at these kind of game though.

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As the game doesn’t communicate how to play. The visual effects are charming.

\n","games":["Mor Chess 2","Mor Chess"]},{"typ":1,"at":410782202,"re":410767337,"author":"Daniel Whiffing","login":"dwhiffing","gh":4886651,"url":"http://directive.software","text":"

Thanks for playing! You can find the directions on this page.

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Simple luck game, pretty cool, liked a lot!

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🎲 381 points! I really liked the concept mixing chance and probability.\nThe only downside is that the d10 felt the strongest: with 1/5 chance of a cursed cat, it still gives more stars than the d12 or d20, which bring higher risk without enough reward.

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Thank you! The idea there is that the d12 and d20 give you more points which are ultimately what you want. You need a good early/mid game strategy + luck to get lots of charms prior to round 10, so that you can get lots of d20s going into the last few rounds and push your score to the limits. When done successfully this can get you up to the 1000 to 1500 range. I will agree that the other dice aren’t perfectly balanced, well spotted

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I like the dopamine hit but i think the decision making that I have to do is still too easy. But a cool concept tho!

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Looks really good, I like the “juice” in the UI animations and the audio fits really well with it too. I’m not entirely sure if I really had much influence on the gameplay through my choices, felt a little random really, but it was definitely fun to play.

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Thank you! I generally overcomplicate my game designs, so tried to go for a minimal design here, slot machine esque but with enough player interaction to make it distinctive while still giving the hypnotic dopamine

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A well made game, which was polished

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The music and sound effects were really good

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I liked the swirling background, very nice

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I played for a while but never got many charms so was never able to upgrade after the initial introduction

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Thank you!! And sorry to hear that you had bad luck 😔 I set up the rng so each die hits a normal distribution within a reasonable amount of rolls, but misfortune can still bite you pretty hard occasionally

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603! Felt like it scaled well, and has a really good turn flow (and is intuitive enough that I got through it without reading the rules). I appreciate the pun name and now have the song stuck in my head.

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A little too much addictive, trying to test different strategies to find if it is possible to go beyond 1200 points.

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