This game stars Lanni, a young child who has been taken to another world overrun with evil animated Dice-like creatures who punish gamblers who haven't paid their debts. She didn't gamble with money, but instead traded her soul in order to cheat at boardgames and always get the roll she needed. Now when she sleeps, she is haunted by the nightmare of fighting endless waves of bloodthirsty dice.
It's Lanni versus dice. It's Dice Versa!
This game was made for the GMTK 2022 game jam where the theme was "Role of the Dice". The game itself ranked overall in 1476 out of 6078, and the aesthetic wise ranked at 469, Dice Versa can still be played in the browser or download for Windows here.
This game was a collaborative effort of a team of 4 people, the game had a small iteration process before landing the final concept. Originally the game was going to be a dungeon crawler with various dice where the amount of faces in the die would represent the amount of life they had. Due to a time constraint it ended up being a single room with various of D6.
The design of the enemies was inspired by the different shapes of dice, the D6 enemy has a small square on their heads to indicate the amount of life that they still have. The dungeon design is supposed to resemble a traditional dungeon with a touch of casino, both in the visual aspect and the music. The main character, Lanni, is supposed to resemble a child while keeping the design simple and memorable, a little girl with pink shorts, white t-shirt and her own dice bag to defeat the enemies.
The pastel colour palette came from the narrative that we had constructed around Lanni, it made sense to give it a more pastel colours to give a feeling that we are inside Lanni's dream.
During the 2 day period of the game jam over 100 sprites were hand-drawn, animated and coloured.
