Dice Duel

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field3 Unnamed CodinGamer

almost 3 years ago

✅ Approved the contribution. Comment: Especially the graphics are amazing.

fgsdt Unnamed CodinGamer

almost 3 years ago

Amazing graphics and a nice idea for a game!! I haven't tried it yet but I will when I get the time. 1 question - ¿Do the dice have standard configuration (7 adding the two opposite faces) or random? ¿Is this for a game-rules reason? 1 idea - You are worried about the strategy of all sixes. Would it be possible to add a restriction? for instance a numerical one: max num of overall dice points (e.g. 6 for the first one + 3,5 * number of additional dice - rounded), or a logical one: a dice cannot roll into the same face. Congratulations!

eulerscheZahl Unnamed CodinGamer

almost 3 years ago

I use non-standard dice as seen in the replay. The reason is that the free game assets I found either don't look that nicely - or are non-standard. My own 3D modeling skills are non-existent. The game has a 2nd league, you can switch at the top right.

jacek Unnamed CodinGamer

almost 3 years ago

✅ Approved the contribution. Comment: Great, 3d looks good though might be quite consuming on the browser.

jacek Unnamed CodinGamer

almost 3 years ago

When you give wrong path length, you lose. When you give wrong source cell, you just pass the turn? Was it overlooked, or you really can do null-move here?

eulerscheZahl Unnamed CodinGamer

almost 3 years ago

Thanks, definitely a bug. I updated the contribution.

Krakenus00 Unnamed CodinGamer

almost 3 years ago

Wow, great one

trictrac Unnamed CodinGamer

about 3 years ago

✅ Approved the contribution. Comment: Game is cool and 3-D board is amazing.

CodinBot Unnamed CodinGamer

about 3 years ago

I hope you received enough feedback from the community to improve your contribution. Once you have made the necessary updates, publish your contribution!

Konstant Unnamed CodinGamer

about 3 years ago

I miss Output Stream for illegal moves and also summary screen with who have win. When i was trying to roll dice outside of the board, game crashed. Outside any edge. Both ligues. The game has crashed. Please contact the author and enclose the following error: java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException: Index 9 out of bounds for length 8 at engine.Die.listMoves(Die.java:157) at engine.Board.listMoves(Board.java:51) at com.codingame.game.Referee.gameTurn(Referee.java:45) at com.codingame.gameengine.core.GameManager.start(GameManager.java:122) at com.codingame.gameengine.core.RefereeMain.start(RefereeMain.java:67) at com.codingame.gameengine.core.RefereeMain.main(RefereeMain.java:50)

eulerscheZahl Unnamed CodinGamer

about 3 years ago

Thanks for reporting. I catch the out of board actions now and also add an error message to the game summary in addition to the tooltip in the viewer timeline. Unfortunately the endscreen isn't that easy to add: there is one in the CodinGame SDK but it relies on pixi.js. However I completely removed pixi and replaced it with three.js as pixi only supports 2D. So I would have to write my own and I'm not sure if it's worth the effort.

yschou Unnamed CodinGamer

about 3 years ago

ShannonNorris97 Unnamed CodinGamer

about 3 years ago

Wow I love this game idea - nice job Euler!

trictrac Unnamed CodinGamer

about 3 years ago

"Ligue 2" with the "7 contraints" works fine too. I have found a bug in my own "dice move generator" (not visible with the ligue 1) : thanks to the referee ! Not easy to say and not sure but "Ligue 2" seems to drive to more draw than "Ligue 1" !? Needs to be consolidated by others testers !!

eulerscheZahl Unnamed CodinGamer

about 3 years ago

Thanks for testing. No problem, I can wait for feedback from others. No need to rush the approval.

trictrac Unnamed CodinGamer

about 3 years ago

Hello euler, I test the game, all works fine. Only some freeze with chrome on linux with the 3-D replay. You can forgot my proposal of an "harder" condition to take an adversary dice, the branching factor is so huge that with 50 ms, it's not so easy for a bot to build a plan to take a adversary dice without beeing himself taken. Thanks for this new 3-D board game !

eulerscheZahl Unnamed CodinGamer

about 3 years ago

Viewer: loading the replay is a bit slow for me. When it starts playing, I'm already at frame 2 or 3 (Ubuntu+Chromium). I could try to further reduce the vertex count of the dice (already reduced it to 25%) but at some point the eyes smear with the rest of the surface. Make sure that you have hardware acceleration enabled. Gameplay: I'm mostly worried that there is a stupid strategy that makes it hard to win against (e.g. promoting all dice to 6 and stacking them close together). Heuristic countering search and at least forcing a draw. The adversary dice might help here. But as I see you are first in the testing arena, so you probably have a better understanding of the game.

Unnamed CodinGamer

about 3 years ago

✅ Approved the contribution. Comment: Very nice puzzle, I approve it 😎.

trictrac Unnamed CodinGamer

about 3 years ago

hello eulerscheZahl, To make the game more complex, It can be added the fact that you can only take an adversary dice, if the sum of the adversary dice and your's is 7. So the player had to make move to be consistent with this objective. The winner is the one having taken the more dices. To avoid draw @ 200 turns, the winner is the one having the better sum of all the remaining dices if the two players have taken the same among of dice. The 3-D animation is amazing ! Thanks for this proposal.

eulerscheZahl Unnamed CodinGamer

about 3 years ago

That's an interesting suggestion. What to do in case there is no adversary die? Allow any move then (as it's the opponent's fault to fail providing such a die? When I keep going with my strategy to promote all die to 6, I would still be able to move all the die :thinking: edit: not sure if I understood you correctly. An interpretation that would make sense (but I think you didn't say this): Your die has a number on top when you start the move (let's say 5). When you roll it, oldTop+newTop = 7 (or <=, to be discussed). So for 5 your new top will be 2 (or possibly 1)

Konstant Unnamed CodinGamer

about 3 years ago

Hej eulerscheZahl Animation is outstanding. However the chessboard could be bigger to cover half of whole screen. I'm sure you are going to make pretty animation, room with armchairs etc. but it is not clue of the game. Imho single chessboard would be enough. Edit: oh I can scroll to zoom in and even rotate 3D, didn't know its possible in CG, I take my words back. Even more outstanding animation. Dice sum of the opposite sides should be 7

eulerscheZahl Unnamed CodinGamer

about 3 years ago

I've adjusted the default position of the camera to put more highlight on the board (was on my TODO list anyways) I know that the numbers on the dice aren't arranged in a standard way :( I found a free asset and later realized it. At the same time I like the visuals much more than I do for other dice models that have the numbers right. And my non-existing Blender skills don't allow me to correct the model myself.

eulerscheZahl Unnamed CodinGamer

about 3 years ago

The longer I think about it, the more I'm in doubt about the concept of the game: when the objective is to capture the opponent, it will lead to lots of 1-vs-1 exchanges. If sticking to the original rules (get 3 dice in a row, 2 own and 1 opponent, that have consecutive numbers showing), it will probably be a passive game. In both ways it's probably the best to promote all your dice to 6 and then wait it out. I'm not sure if some pushing logic (Abalone-like) could make it more interesting. Any thoughts or ideas to save the game? My current fall-back would be a puzzle contribution where you have to beat an average strength AI.

EricSMSO Unnamed CodinGamer

about 3 years ago

Euler, tell the truth. Are you from planet Mars?

eulerscheZahl Unnamed CodinGamer

about 3 years ago

TODO: * avatars * some visual cleanup (highlight taken paths, find something for the background) * game settings (replay speed)

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