Roll the D.I.C.E. (Dogs in Crazy Expeditions)

"There once was a great leviathan, it swam through the ages and devoured all content it saw, including but not limited to game jam content that was totally going to be in the entry but I ran out of time to make" - AF_Husky

Welp, this jam did not come out quite how I expected. But hey, that's life sometimes. Out of this 48 hour jam, I really had about 12 hours that I could actually use for making this game and what you see is about that. Out of that, most of our team's time was spent on making movement feel good and making the animations look nice, which I think we got at least! We actually liked the idea for this project and will continue working on it later, but for now, we have a prototype for the game jam.

Our full plan is as follows:

Creating a boss-rush top-down adventure game where our hero dog, Craig Roland, has to fight several bosses on his Crazy Expedition. Our hero is an expert at the dodge roll, but he has another trick up his sleeve. Each time he dodge rolls, he also rolls a magical die that grants him buffs to use while taking down the foes that await him on his journey. Fire, ice, speed, defense, attack, and more are all available to him through the power of RNG, but it comes at a cost. While everything can be considered a buff, some enemies have resistances to the powers that Craig possesses. For instance, a fire-breathing dragon is completely immune to Craig's fire abilities, but may have a weakness against ice. While the dodge roll serves as a great mechanism to evade danger, each roll constitutes a different form of attack that Craig can use so he must be sure to plan his rolls accordingly. Will our canine hero succeed in his Crazy Expedition? Stay tuned...

Created by me and nuclear_chair. For GMTK Jam 2022 "Roll of the Dice"