Parry Hotter and the Silosopher’s Phone

Made as a Submission to Ludum Dare 54 – Limited Space

Controls:

Use Mouse.

Pixel Art Dice Battler Game

Can you make it to Wogharts???

You are a regular dude with a regular name, Parry Hotter, with a liiiitle tendency for pick pocketing. From your first target of the day, you end up in posession of a pretty swanky hat, and, the Silosopher’s Phone. Next thing you know it’s receiving a phone call: Wogharts Wizardry and Witchcraft School is on the line, offering you a position at the school! But you need to hurry, there are limited spaces!

You may not be a wizard, but luckily you have a couple magic dice up your sleeve, as you start on your journey to the school. Balance conquering other student candidates to increase your stats with opening chests to collect new dice, to conquer the final boss and make your way to Wogharts Wizardry and Witchcraft School.

How to Play

Each turn, click on one of the three possible tiles to move forward. There are blank tiles, chests and combat tiles.

Combat

When you encounter another potential student candidate you will enter combat mode. The health of you and your opponent/s is shown in red. The goal is to attack your opponent until their health is fully depleted. You can do this by rolling dice. You start with 3 dice in your dice collection on the left hand side of the screen. Click on a die to roll it, and then drag it into a slot to place it in: Attack, Block or Heal. You cannot move a dice once it has been slotted, however you can replace it with a new dice and discard the previous. Select which enemy you want to attack, and then End Round button to begin your attack and defend against your opponent. Rinse and repeat until you have beaten your opponent!

Credits

Thanks to sonically_sound, for the banger of a track I found on freesound: https://freesound.org/people/sonically_sound/sounds/624874/

##Dev Thoughts

Really enjoyed this LD even though the theme didn't really match well with my initial idea for gameplay, am keen on making enhanced luck based systems at ther moment so want to explore number generation more and incorporate it into games in a fair way. Going into this I really wanted to learn Godot engine as the recent Unity changes are pretty shocking, but I caved because I didn't have enough time to learn it, maybe next time! 

Thanks to Josie for helping playtest (: