Doesn't letting the player choose when to stop the die go against the concept of dice?

I like your current die. I don't think they need a lot of "character" since "classic" seems to be the theme of the game, there's no other visual theme tying things together.
I think the bottom corners still look sharp though, the AA colour is too dark. Use the same one as at the top, perhaps?

My personal preference is for when the dice start fast and slow down as they get closer to the result. Adds some drama. And of course, an option to skip is good, but it shouldn't affect the result at all. The number should be determined at the start of the roll, the animation is simply cosmetic.

Yep, something like that! But maybe a sparkle animation, or just a checkmark above the die or something for completion of the roll, instead of the shaking animation?

Also, I think the new corners look much nicer :D

@Alis: Originally that's what I wanted to do but we (in the chatterbox) concluded it would end up being tedious to check the same animation over and over again.

Also, if I add a diagonal frame, I have to redo each frame tilted for both top and bottom face of the die. If it were just the animation I'd do it but since it's in a game, I have to think about production "time".

How about something like this:


A few attempt at using more original design (none of them convincing):


Another attempt, this time without the white flash and faster writing of the number (a real 3 this time).


I prefer the 5 to be honest. 3 is written too fast and lacks punch without the white flash.

Alright.



So in the previous version, the writing was over 7 frames, I've cut it down to 5 frames. Anything shorter would hurt the writing animation.

I accelerated the flashing as well to get to the result faster in-game.

I also changed the number color. It's less homogeneous because I'm not using the same palette as the die, well, not entirely.

Basically, the better you are at something in the game, the more die you get to roll to get a higher result.

If the thief is rolling three die, I'd animated all three of them (like the "five"). Once the rolling is done, only the highest score is selected and identified with the number written underneath. Lower dice are dismissed: smaller and greyscaled. Are they still too big? Should I also write their score underneath? I decided not to because they end up being dismissed anyway.

I've also added an ork to give an idea what the the confrontation would look like. Player character are on the left side of the scroll and enemies are on the right side.

I've also changed the color of the ink, red for the foe, blue for the player.

So in this case, the player would win by +2. The more you win by, the more damage you cause. This way, I eliminate one step from combat in order to keep things streamlined and quick. In D&D, you'd roll to hit and for damage, that's two steps.

For example, the attack misses if it's at -1, minor damage at 0, 1 light damage at +1, medium damage at +2, etc...

I've also added the morale icons. Morale allows you to re-roll a dice. The layout is messed up at the moment, I'll need to make the scroll bigger which isn't a bad thing as I can stretch it further horizontally to make make better use of the lower portion of the screen.

Morale lets you reroll a die of your choice (more likely one of the greyed out die in this case).

This looks really good. Definite improvement over time.

My only suggestion is to add a divider between the three dice of the thief and the orc. Also, potentially put the "confirm" on the left, instead of the right.

keep it up :)

I think the morale icons could be smaller. They just represent retries, afterall - there's no need for them to be so fancy.

I'm not sure how all these dice work. Does it roll 3 and pick the best? That feels a bit like it takes some of the fun out of dice rolling for me, since it greatly increases your chance of getting a high number, especially with the morale/rerolling ability. I don't know what gameplay exactly you're going for, but I think it would be more fun to use sums instead. That way, rerolling can be more strategic too - say you rolled 6, 4, and 2. It's much more interesting when you get to choose whether to reroll only the 2 for a pretty safe increase in the total, or the 4 and 2 and risk losing a decently high number for a chance at a higher one. If only the highest die counts instead of the sum, then the decisions are a lot less interesting. It also means less flexibility. Dice-based games often reward higher ranks in spells/skills with getting to roll more (summed) dice for damage/success. It's akin to how diceless computer games raise the min and max numbers on damage as you raise your stats/skills.

Problem right now is that player side of the scroll takes too much space horizontally. That problem would get even worse if more die can be rolled.

Maybe I could use a pop-up window for the dice rolling which closes after the result is shown?

The groundwork is there, I'd be silly to stick to my first idea if someone provides a better alternative. The work I've done so far is based on my original idea.

Actually making the scroll longer looks good enough I think:


5 can be displayed at most.