Danger Close Dice!

Danger Close Dice is an arena combat game where you only have one move - Roll the dice. Waves of belligerent, heavily-armed chicken advance on your position, and you must jump behind, between, and over incoming artillery fire, anti-tank homing rockets and bomb-vest-equipped-roosters to avoid getting knocked off the map, into the void.

How to Play

• Click and drag left mouse button (LMB) to aim your die
• Release LMB to roll the die. (To prevent spam clicking, throws must go a minimum distance)
  • Every 3 rolls, you get a bonus effect based on your roll (See appendix)
• It's okay if you get hit by an explosion, just don't fall off the arena!
• Kill all the enemies in the map to trigger the next wave. Some enemies like to hide in corners.
• There are ~16 waves, you win if you beat them all!

Tips

• Play with headphones! The music layers build as you advance past waves 3,6, and 9!
• Homing rockets can be redirected, so can artillery fire ... explosives will damage your enemies too!

Appendix 1 - Dice Combos & Effects

• TRIPLE (eg. 1,1,1) : Huge AOE
• Sum to 11 : Instakill nearest enemy (Crit!) and mini-AOE
• Sum <= 12  : Small AOE
• Sum >12 : Big AOE
  

Appendix 2 - Credits

• Awesome chiptune sound effects from https://opengameart.org/content/512-sound-effects-8-bit-style
•  Cute input prompt icons from https://kenney.nl/assets/input-prompts-pixel-16
• Music made by me & my Arturia
• Art made by me in Aseprite. 95% of it was made for this game jam exclusively, but some are from previous projects.
• Programming/design/everything else is mine.