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Board Life by Serious07

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made by Serious07 for LD 44 (JAM)

Board Life is a board-card game in which you spend or receive years of life in gaming events.

Trailer: https://youtu.be/o-pFcnDoOBs

Controls: - Mouse - select cards, navigate through the menu, move the camera. - WASD - alterative movement of the camera. - QE - camera height

Features: - The combination of board and card game - 62 game event cards - Realistic dices - Random generation of the playing field - Life is currency

The game is made by: - Serious07 - Team Leader, Code, Game Design, Texts - Akagane - Models and Art - Arthur Yul - Music and Sounds

Fill free to follow to my twitter and youtube:

Twitter: https://twitter.com/Serious_07

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2mw98W54e68fR8s_Gs0bGw

Please do not forget to rate!

Source Code https://bitbucket.org/demondot/board-life/src/master/
HTML5 (web) https://serious07.itch.io/board-life
Windows https://serious07.itch.io/board-life
HTML5 (web) https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/730566
Original URL https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/44/board-life

Ratings

Given 33🗳️ 40🗨️

Feedback

WTG
29. Apr 2019 · 23:29 UTC
This was pretty fun, good variety with the cards and the dice balanced the choices with a bit of luck. Good job :thumbsup:
SimplePotential
29. Apr 2019 · 23:35 UTC
A good example of team work in my opinion. You could tell it was thought out and each of you had a role to play in the design. There were a couple little bugs where icons overlapped text on the popups but nothing terrible (HTML version). I played around a couple times, well done!
GuiltyKing
30. Apr 2019 · 01:16 UTC
I find the game to be good, unique and innovated, I believe the problem lies in your dice rolls, sometime my dice doesn't roll at all or doesn't feel like a dice. I don't play much board games but I can see that this board game was pretty well made.
Black Potion
30. Apr 2019 · 03:10 UTC
It reminds me Hand of Fate a bit. The game is cool and I love the graphisms. Good job, maybe roll the dice faster for a next update ;)
RaineTheGlutton
30. Apr 2019 · 03:29 UTC
I felt like this was a very unique take on the theme. While the game itself is very intuitive it would have been nice to have some goal or objective instead of just clicking around on tiles and dropping dice. Speaking of the dice, at times they felt clunky to drop sometimes and felt very easy to manipulate in their current implementation. Overall though a relaxing game and good soundtrack!
🎤 Serious07
30. Apr 2019 · 09:04 UTC
@wtg @simplepotential @guiltyking @black-potion @rainetheglutton Thanks for playing and rating our game!
-banzi
30. Apr 2019 · 09:50 UTC
That was really fun. I enjoyed every card and the "randomness" element helped a lot - I went to jail, got hurt, went mountaineering, broke my legs ... Amazing!
🎤 Serious07
30. Apr 2019 · 09:56 UTC
@banzi Glad you liked it, thanks for playing!
Starlet
30. Apr 2019 · 13:05 UTC
This was so much fun!! I loved the theme and it was nice to play!
Mia Devs
30. Apr 2019 · 13:06 UTC
not connected with the theme
Le Slo
30. Apr 2019 · 13:12 UTC
This was pretty interesting! Dice throwing was too slow, and once you have a lot of visited tiles it's boring having to click on several to reach a new tile, some pathfinding here could really help. The game is pretty balanced, it seems difficult to lose but I never had more than 72 years of life, which seems very real. Congratulations!
Kaisean Games
30. Apr 2019 · 13:16 UTC
This is good. :)

However, I have two points I want to give.
1. Outcomes are somewhat unrealistic. For example, most people that win a lottery have it worse than before. They don't live 9 years longer because of that. Maybe homeless or desperately sick people, but they usually don't play lottery anyway.
2. The dice throwing felt unnatural. I could very very very easily manipulate the outcome of the dice as they just fall down and if their rotation is nice, they will just stay like this. There's no rolling of dice.

All in all, very nice job and nice ideas. I really liked the graphics style. Keep up the good work.
Mags
30. Apr 2019 · 13:18 UTC
I lived 136 years and died of bad food. Very nice idea but only marginally related to the theme. I liked the game. Nice job on the cards and ideas on what could happen in life. :slight_smile: Keep up the good work.
JestemStefan
30. Apr 2019 · 13:22 UTC
I LOVE THIS GAME!!! I could play this for hours! This should be some kind of real life board game!

Art is great, Music is Great!
Mechanics are Great!

Your team and your game is awesome!

PS. Very little connection to theme
🎤 Serious07
30. Apr 2019 · 13:25 UTC
@mags @mia-devs I thought for a very long time about what kind of game to do for the current theme, and as a result I interpreted the years of life into currency, and the events into the goods for purchase, maybe my thoughts went somewhere else.

@kaisean-games Thanks for playing. Yes, the bones did not work out very well, I am not familiar with 3D physics.

@starlet Hope you have a good and fun time!

Thanks everyone!
Nexusviper
30. Apr 2019 · 14:29 UTC
quite a lot of effort and game is interesting but not innovative i had played a lot of games like this. Game is matching with the theme. anyways nice entry :) all the best
Daviscartes
30. Apr 2019 · 14:57 UTC
Really a fun game! I quite like the board-card genre, and this game leaves me quite relaxing mood. BTW, the dice is not totally rng, and I can always roll what I need XD
EvoGenGames
30. Apr 2019 · 15:35 UTC
This is a straight 5 star game :smile:

Loved that there was some manipulation of the dice.

The art and variety of cards is really impressive for 48 hours

congratulations
Kirbloid
30. Apr 2019 · 16:24 UTC
Really polished and easy to play, with a lot of humor in the tiles and results. Despite the (on point) commentary with the random dice rolls effecting your life, did feel there was some control in the direction and the risks the player took.
good.enough
30. Apr 2019 · 16:41 UTC
I and my siblings played this, and here are our thoughts:

Nehe: "It was really good, I loved the way the story unfolded."

Elsi: "Didn't get to play it, but I liked the art, and premise."

Lazu: "I liked the graphics, and it was very interesting."

Good: "All of the above, and the music was catchy and fun."
Gear Steak
30. Apr 2019 · 23:16 UTC
I'm amazed you made this in just 3 days, given a bit more polish I would think this was a fully released game!
I did find a bug with the game not registering certain movements and not showing the potential movement directions. Other than that though I really hope you continue to work on this post jam
aspigame
01. May 2019 · 09:17 UTC
Nice game. It took me a while to understand that I could choose when to throw dice.
rhewid
01. May 2019 · 13:29 UTC
Great work considering there were only 3 days! Keep it up!
Aticora Games
01. May 2019 · 17:13 UTC
Awesome game hard to believe it was made in three days good job.
Somogy
02. May 2019 · 14:15 UTC
Great board game!
trozen
02. May 2019 · 20:05 UTC
I lived 170 years! Though I went to jail numerous times for undoubtedly heinous crimes.
Arqcenick
03. May 2019 · 22:06 UTC
It reminded me of a board game called CV. It was really fun good job!
I liked the 3d models of the board pieces a lot.
Rs11s21n
04. May 2019 · 11:09 UTC
reeeeally good! but i think you need make mechanik more variotive.
i'v got 158 years xD
Yaen
04. May 2019 · 15:32 UTC
Very cool entry! The game design is quite original and different. Unfortunately I managed to get stuck with my dice leaning onto each other and the game couldn't go on. I'm not sure if having those "realistic" dice is really necessary, since a simple RNG would have done it. Pretty cool and fun game regardless! Lots of cool ideas to be found here.
![Snap 2019-05-04 at 17.29.07.png](///raw/512/12/z/248fd.png)
🎤 Serious07
04. May 2019 · 20:07 UTC
@yaen Thank you, this bug will be fixed!
🎤 Serious07
04. May 2019 · 20:11 UTC
@nexusviper @daviscartes @evogengames @kirbloid @good-enough @gear-steak @aspigame @rhewid @aticora-games @somogy @trozen @arqcenick @rs11s21n Thank you all for the reviews and playing our game! I'm still reading all comments!
falak
05. May 2019 · 16:48 UTC
I would like to have this game in physical form, with pawns, dice and so on. Really great game! Good luck!
Krapht
06. May 2019 · 11:53 UTC
the banana peel reads "Roll not less then 7" but rolling less then 7 is what saves you. Rolling higher then 7 gets you bit by a shark.