Spellbound Rollers

Game Overview

• Main gameplay: Enemies spawn around the player, and the player has to defeat them using their attacks and abilities.
• Unique Selling Point: The player shoots out dices (following the game jam theme), and depending on what side of the dice is facing up, the player will activate the ability on that face.
• Inspired by Vampire Survivors.
• This game was for GMTK Game Jam 2022, theme is “Roll of the Dice”.

Game Description:

A simple survival game where you have to defend yourself against living dice with your own through utilizing several special powers: Fire, poison, ice etc… Collect the chips, gain XP and unlock more powers!

Main Features that I did

• Attacks
  • Basic Attack - The player shoots dice, and depending on which face of the dice is up, the dice spawns an ability that attacks / gives a status effect to the enemies.
  • Abilities:
    • Fire - Creates an explosion, damaging nearby enemies
    • Ice - Shoots ice spears at enemies, piercing enemies
    • Poison - Spawns a pool of poison, poisoning enemies inside.
    • Lightning - Strikes down random enemies, dealing area damage to those nearby.
    • Gravity - Creates a black hole, pulling enemies near the center
    • Magic Circle - Slows enemies and increase player attack speed
  • Made a system that allows me to easily add new abilities and control the cooldown, time, damage, push-back force & radius for the abilities. I’m also able to add custom effects like giving increased attack speed when in magic circle.
  • Players can upgrade the abilities, increasing the abilities effect.
  • Also did the UI for selecting abilities and assigning abilities to the dice faces.