A downloadable game for macOS and Linux

This is a game for the Simplicity Game Jam, the theme of which is "Roll the dice". Dice-o-metric is a sort of combination slide puzzle / matching game with an isometric board view.

The goal is to remove all dice from the board, which is done by "bumping" at least 2 dice of the same kind together. All neighboring dice with this same number will be removed as well. If you get a to point where there are no legal moves left, that's game over. "Rock" dice cannot be moved or matched.

I made this game in my spare time over the course of 10 days, and thoroughly enjoyed it!

Source code here: https://github.com/shadowFAQs/dice-o-metric

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dice_o_metric 37 MB
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dice_o_metric_macOS 38 MB

Install instructions

Executables for Linux (works well) and MacOS (takes a very long time to load, and IME must be launched from iTerm/Terminal). But if you give it like 90 seconds to load, the game seems to run well.

I'm still working on a web executable to play in the browser; sorry for the delay!

To run from source:

1. Use Python3.12
2. Download the project here: https://github.com/shadowFAQs/dice-o-metric
3. Set up a virtual env and install the requirements in requirements.txt
4. Run main.py

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petunio12363 days ago (1 edit)

cool pixel art!

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Andrew63 days ago

Working on a WebAssembly version, but I've never attempted that conversion before and not sure I'll make it by the deadline.

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Cheezesoft63 days ago

would you like some help with this? I used pygame and pymunk for my entry and pygbag to make the web assemby version of it

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Andrew63 days ago

Hey yeah that would be great. Thanks for the offer!

I made a quick attempt at pygbag -- the game built fine, but the localhost version never actually did anything. Any tips would be appreciated. The source code for this game is here: https://github.com/shadowFAQs/dice-o-metric

The only changes I made for pygbag were just to make it async aware. Possibly I need to mash all the .py files into one?

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Cheezesoft63 days ago (1 edit)

you shouldn't need to put them into one. direct your browser to http://localhost:8000/#debug  instead and you'll see the error. youll also need to add the requirment at the top of main

# /// script 
# dependencies = [ 
# numpy,
# pytweening,
# shapely
# ] 
# ///
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Andrew63 days ago

Thank you, that's very helpful. I included the script block you send, but it looks like pygbag is not finding the "pytweening" module for some reason. Any suggestions?

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Cheezesoft63 days ago(+1)

From reading it sounds like pygbag doesn't support it. Maybe throw the entire pytweening library as a folder in your project?

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