Dicetiny: The Lord of the Dice
Beta-test starts today!
As announced, today we start a beta test for our next update today. Again the reason for this beta test is to polish the game before we do our next update because we feel that it needs improvement in some areas. Our main focus will be on adjusting the balance, and catching glitches.
We will give you the details of what have been added/changed in the patch note when we do our next update.
This test will run roughly a week, but may run longer depending on the situation. This test will open to all owners of Dicetiny.
Here's how to participate in the beta:
1. Please go to the Dicetiny in your Steam library
2. Right click and select "Properties"
3. Select "BETAS:" Tab.
4. Select -> beta - Dicetiny Beta-Test
5. Wait for the Steam to finish downloading and enjoy the game!
That's it for now. Hope you guys enjoy the game!
Fakedice
Reddit AMA now live!
Please click the following link and ask us your questions!
Link: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/423c9y/we_are_fakedice_from_korea_the_beersojudrinking/
Meanwhile, here's the latest footage of the game: https://youtu.be/7Tv21-W6oug
Cheers,
Mike "The Community Manager"
Reddit AMA this Thursday (EST), and Beta test coming next week!
Hey guys,
Yesterday morning we had our weekly meeting. Some of you may already know, but most of us now work from home, and our physical beings only get together on Mondays to regroup and discuss any topic related to the development of the game as well as geeky/nerdy gossips like how much we liked the recent Star Wars movie although they completely changed the original storyline. In today's announcement I want to give you some insights on what was discussed during that meeting, and what we decided to do in the near future.
Should we update the game this Friday as planned?
- This was of course the most important topic of the meeting. As we quietly announced on Twitter, we were planning to do an update this Friday. However, we had a problem. The game needs more polishing. Bugs should be fixed as well as texts. The game balance should be adjusted not to mention other small works to raise the quality level. So here's what we talked about regarding this...
How about we do a beta test to polish the game before we do any update?
A: This beta will focus on polishing the game with help from user reports.
B: Not a bad idea. Yeah I'm down with that.
A: So do that next week?
B: Yup let's do it. So the focus of this beta test will be to polish the game. We have to clearly inform people of that.
A: Absolutely. How about we make it clear on the announcement?
B: The thing is...many people don't read announcements, it has to be visible in-game.
A: How about we make a splash screen with a FBI warning that this test focuses on polishing the game?
B: Sold! Let's do it!
So...that's what was discussed. So to summarize this, there will be a beta next week with new features/stages and everything, and our focus will be to polish the game by catching bugs and crashes as well as correcting English and adjusting the balance/raising the overall quality, among others. The details on how to participate in this beta test will be revealed through an announcement next week, so please stay tuned. (Anyone who owns Dicetiny will be able to participate in the test)
So I'm sure you guys still have some questions regarding this, and I felt that we need to connect more with the community so I suggested the team we do a...
Reddit AMA
Since the time we launched Kickstarter campaign, this has been bugging me because many people recommended it but we have never done one. Reddit AMA has always been on the top of my "To do list". Now I'm happy to tell you that it's happening for real this Thursday night at 9pm EST . Please prepare your questions related to Dicetiny, and shoot them to us come January 21st. But please go easy on us. As you guys already know, we are not very good at English so this will be a challenge for us. But we love trying new stuff, and I'm sure it will be worth a try.
So here's the schedule.
When?: January 21 Thursday starts at 21:00 ,and ends at 22:30 (EST)
That's 6pm in LA, 9pm in New York and 3am in Germany(Jan.22 for Germany),
Where?: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA (Once our post is up, we will share the link on this Community Hub, Facebook, Twitter, and Tumblr. You can find the links to these social media sites here: http://www.fakedice.com/ )
Who?: Jin (CEO), Sun-geun (Game Designer/QA), and Mike (Community Manager) will be there to answer your questions. Mike (That's me) will translate for Jin and Sun-geun as they speak limited English.
UIs renovated
https://youtu.be/jFV558DsK6c
We renovated the UIs and here's what we discussed.
A: What is "Storage Slot"?
B: It's where you can keep one of your cards so you can use it later in the game.
A: Ok, and the starting space, it's on the top? What's going on here.
B: The special spaces on the corners are now randomly arranged at the beginning.
A: Aha, to give more replay values?
B: Exactly.
A: Btw I actually prefer the old design.
B: Come again?
T-alek
inspired by Dalek from Dr.Who, T-alek will be one of the new characters you will be playing against in the beta next week.
Our saviour!
A good news! We finally found a person who was willing to help us with English. His name is Matt. Thank you. Your kindness will not be forgotten. May the dice be with you, Matt.
See you on Thursday guys!
Mike "The People's Community Manager"
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
Everyone here at Fakedice wishes you Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! Hope you guys are celebrating the most wonderful time of the year with your loved ones. (don't celebrate it alone like Warrior here...) As for us, we wish that there would be no bugs and crashes and typos and grammar mistakes next year, and may the content of Dicetiny expand like there's no 2017. (I personally wish that there would be more user content next year.)
Alright guys, enjoy your holiday, and don't drink and drive! (You can drink and play games though because I've done it, and it's awesome!)
Mike "The People's Community Manager"
[For Mac users ony] Restarting bug now fixed.
This message is for Mac users only. (No offence to Windows users). Remember that bug that restarted the game whenever you entered a map which we also did a rollback for? (This one: http://steamcommunity.com/games/318090/announcements/detail/89308003008095048)
We fixed it so there will be a patch right after this announcement. Please check and let us know if it works or if there's any problem! (This patch will only take place to Mac users)
I want to finish off this announcement with this "Steam survey data" (not done by us) for the recent month showing the percentage of each OS among the owners of Dicetiny. (btw, I think we need more Mac users and, I don't know why Linux is in there because the game currently doesn't support it.)
Thank you for your patience and hopefully everything works fine!
Fakedice
[For Mac users only] Emergency Roll-back
This message is for "Mac" users only.
We found a bug that restarts the game whenever you enter a map
, so we rolled back to the previous version (This version). As soon as we find the solution to this problem, we will do another patch.Please be advised that this "roll back" will only take place to those of you who use Mac.
Sorry for the inconvenience and hopefully we will fix this soon.
Fakedice
IndieDB Indie of the year & let's talk more about Campfire!
Hey guys,
It's me, Mike, the guy who tries to speak English. Are you guys excited about Christmas and the New Year? Me too... You may ask what's with the image on the top? Well I will get to it later. I just put it up there so people can see it when they visit the store page.
IndieDB's quest to find the best(?) 100 indie games
So I want to start off today's newsletter with indieDB's INDIE OF THE YEAR 2015. Did we win the award??? No...but the title of this newsletter may have tricked you into thinking that. For some of you who are not familiar with IndieDB, it's basically an website devoted to indie games, and they're currently accepting votes to decide Top 100 indie games of 2015. Our game still has a long way to go, but things like this is a great way to get some exposure, (looks like game media heavyweights like Eurogamer, Rock Paper Shotgun, and VG24/7 will keep their eyes on this), so if you could just head over to our indieDB page (which hadn't been updated for quite a while, but I will be updating more often from now on. I think it's better than Tumblr to get the words out.), and hit that Vote button, that would be highly appreciated. (Of course if you think Dicetiny deserves a vote that is!) Only ONE DAY LEFT! (It ends on Friday I think) so hurry up if you're thinking about voting. Here's a link: http://www.indiedb.com/games/dicetiny
I already voted as you have already guessed.
Campfire! (The Campfire? not sure what to call it.)
What is the Campfire, that is the question.
- Your hero can heal his HP here.
- Each time you enter the Campfire, you spend "One Day". Which means you have to complete the whole game within a given time limit. (28 days for now, and the World as you know it ends...)
- So basically here, you can heal/manage your deck/manage your relics(What is relic? i will tell you more about it in later updates)/meet dealers(?) Whoa, hold your horses, dealers? Can you tell me more about them? Sure thing!
There are Relic Hunter/Spell-card Dealer/Minion-card Dealer, and there's 30% chance for each of them to appear at the Campfire. (So you may see all of them one night, and none of them the other night). Again more details on Relic will be revealed soon. Speaking of Relic, I LOVED "This Show " back in the 90's.
I'm so lonely...
Awkward!
Sup X 3
Here's me checking out the work-in-progress main menu.
As you can see, we're transforming the game so that it will be more PC and RPG-like. (For some of you who don't know about our past, we'd been actually developing this game for the mobile devices for awhile and switched the focus to PC.) And yes. I like 80's rocks. https://youtu.be/GwwaS7dNkF4
When can I see this update in the actual game you ask? This big update will probably take place sometime in January. That means no update in December? There maybe, but it will not be a big one. Sorry guys.
Our new indie friend, Gremlins Inc.
No, I'm not talking about him...
I've been on the lookout for fellow indie devs with whom we can share information as well as seek possibilities together to co-promote our games, and Gremlins immediately caught my eyes. I sent a hello email and the nice fellows in Lithuania helped us out giving us tips and introducing us to some really talented people. We launched around similar time, and they have whopping 95% positive reviews! The game's artstyle is the thing of envy to any indie developers. I played about 30 minutes the other day, and if you like board games, I'm pretty sure you will be hooked immediately not just for the artstyle but also the sound effects and unique and deep gameplay. Anyhow if you're interested, check out their store page.
http://store.steampowered.com/app/369990
I will probably continue trying to reach out to other indie developers, and this is not going to be an one time thing as I will continue to mention about the game on our social media channels.
Alright guys, I will see you guys soon. Enjoy your destiny, and hopefully Dicetiny too.
Cheers,
Mike "The People's Community Manager"
Welcome Cleric! You're not welcomed Fatal Error!...Update
Hi guys!
Did you guys enjoy Thanksgiving spending time with your family? (to American fans only) I actually didn't know thanksgiving was today until I saw a special wallpaper for fans posted by other indie dev. Had I knew we probably would have prepared one but I missed it. (Sigh) Sorry about that guys.
Now let's talk about today's update. This update was supposed to take place on January 3rd, but we fast-forwarded it to today to see if this ends the Fatal Error issue... (EDIT: Right before we upload the build, we found another Fatal Error that crashes the game when you use a spell card in a certain situation. We haven't figured out why this happens and are currently investigating. This is separate issue from the Fatal Error message some of you have been getting. Looks like we can never have 100% clean build! =( )
Now le't move onto something fun. We now have a new class on board! His name is Giovanni. Is he Italian? We don't know. Only thing we know is he's Cleric Gnome. Here's his brief background.
"Clerics practice the religion of " Thorholic" and play the essential role of a supporter looking after the allies away from the battlefield. But now, they are taking things into their own hands entering the battlefield with a hammer just like the one that their God has.(!?) Their holy spells can strengthen as well as heal themselves and the friendly force, and they're not shy about using their hammer to punish the enemies when they need to. They carry many spell cards that can heal both themselves and friendly minions making them exceptionally advantageous in later rounds, which is why they are feared by many."
Sounds like he's a lot of fun and looks like there's a cult even in Middle Board. I actually tested him streaming it on Twitch today morning (Korea time), so head to our Twitch channel if want to check it out. (And don't forget to subscribe it! =): http://www.twitch.tv/fakedice Anyway so why don't you go to My Deck and say hello to Cleric? Here are other stuff we did in this update.
Optimization
- Optimized gameplay logic and animation.
- Expected to Lower the recommended PC spec.
Chages
- When you get into a battle, minion attacks first in any given situation.
- Every round two neutral minions are summoned on empty spaces.
- Enemy minions are already on the board in the first round.
Bug fixes/Improvements
- Finally found the cause of Fatal Error, and fixed it.
- Found another crash bug but it rarely happens when a certain spell card is used. - You can now play the game on 32bit-based Windows.
- This was the cause of "The unknown error". - Unresponsive mouse click fixed.
- The cause of it was the loading screens, which we removed for now.
- This is identified as a bug from Unreal Engine 4.
- We've reported it to their technical support)
Alright guys, that's it for today's update. Enjoy your Friday and see you guys next week! (I will be back with more information on what we're doing to transform this game to be more PC and RPG-like.)
Mike "The People's Community Manager"
New world map we're working on, IGF, and More
Hope you guys aren't feeling too tired from playing Fallout 4. I will try to keep today's newsletter short because...it's Sunday! and you need to spend time with your family. Here are some stuff we're working on.
We're renovating the title menu.
This is a rough concept image.
We're working on the World Map
Yes, we're changing the world map too. the "Semi-Open World" world map we're planning. You can play dungeons with different game objectives in any order you like, and your goal is to complete the game within ... 28 days?
IGF
Dicetiny is one of the entries for this year's independent games festival. Our eight fingers are crossed that the God of Game will notice Dicetiny. Check out our page on IGF if you're interested!
http://www.igf.com/php-bin/entry2016.php?id=9133
Gstar
Yes. We were at the Gstar, and the highlight of our trip was this this kid who played the game over 40 minutes.
Here's a short summary of what we did there, so go and check it out. http://fakedice.tumblr.com/post/133580537599/our-trip-to-gstar-2015
Dicetiny Key Giveaway in Collaboration with Culdcept Central
We are collaborating with Culdcept Central http://www.culdceptcentral.com the site devoted to the classic game many people still love and sometimes compare Dicetiny to. We are giving away a total of ten keys of Dicetiny later so follow this link if you want to win one!
https://gleam.io/diiQq/dicetiny-steam-key-giveaway
RedditAMA?
I'm thinking about hosting a RedditAMA to answer some of the questions you have but at the same time, get some exposure for the game. If you're not familiar with RedditAMA, here's the description of it: here a host may post "AMAs" (for "Ask Me Anything") prompts for others to ask questions about any topic. AMAs are open to all Reddit users, and use the site's comment system for both questions and answers; it is similar to a press conference, but online. So yeah, it will be a challenge since it will be all in English but we LOVE challenges! So what do you think guys? What day and time do you think is good to host this? Leave a comment below.
Fatal Crash
We're not 100% sure but if we are right, we may see the end of the fatal crash soon. Let's hope that that's the case guys.
Alright guys, enjoy the rest of the weekend, and see you next week.
Mike "The People's Community Manager"
Gstar and...The Campfire??
Gstar (Basically it's Korea's E3)
We're heading to Busan, a city located in the Southeastern end of the Korean peninsula, also known for its beautiful beaches and delicious live octopus(gross..) We will be there from tomorrow to Sunday. I will be your reporter keeping you updated on our every move on our social media. (well, maybe not every move, maybe every three hours or so.) Again here are the addresses to our social media.
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/yourdicetiny
Twitter: https://twitter.com/YourDICETINY
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/YourDicetiny
The Campfire
We introduce to you The Campfire! which is something we're going to add in the future update as a part of our efforts to upgrade Dicetiny's RPG elements. Here, you can spend 1 day to do the followings.
Build your deck
- Basically works the same way as what we have right now.Manage your Relics
(or equipments..we haven't decided what to call these)
- More details on Relics are to be revealed later.Meet a dealer
- There's 25% chance a dealer appears in camp (Just like that gnome from the Golden Axe!) who sells cards/relics. Some of them plays a dice draw game with you and if you win, you get a random relic!Check the progress of your achievements.
- These achievements are not Steam achievements. We wanted to keep these achievements non-Steam because there's a possibility that the game will be ported to other platform. Steam achievements maybe added later.
After you've done all of these things, you press Sleep or Rest button to end the day, see a short animation, and go back to the World Map. Wait, there's one more thing on the Campfire...You can be...ambushed by Burglars!
- There's a chance that you will be ambushed by burglars while you're asleep. ... I will stop here since I don't want to give out too much information. =)
Good review and not so good review
We had a good and not so good review by Escapist and Trading Card Games respectively.
the escapist: http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/video-games/previews/14930-Dicetiny-Preview-Fakedice-Dungeon-Crawling-Digital-Board-Game#&gid=gallery_5013&pid=1
Trading Card Games: http://tradingcardgames.com/dicetiny-early-preview/
Do you agree with them? Please let us know below!
Lastly, update on Fatal Error.
Our battle against Fatal Error continues. Here's our suggestion. If the game crashes at launch, please check if your graphic card supports DirectX 11 or above. (We thought
the game could be run on DirectX 10 but recent reports show otherwise...) If your graphic card supports it, please try reinstalling DirectX 11 or above.
If the game crashes while you're in-game, please check whether the game is running on your internal graphics. If so, please switch your graphics to the external one. Here are some instructions on how to switch from internal graphics to external graphics.
https://support.lenovo.com/us/en/documents/ht078706
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUBOYKICRso
If none of these fixes the crash, we have to suspect there's a bug in Unreal Engine 4. We're going to see them at Gstar so we will ask them about this.
I will be somewhat slow in response as I will be at Gstar until Sunday so I ask you for your patience. Alright guys, see you next week!
Mike "The People's Community Manager"