A downloadable game for Windows

Instructions (bear with us!):

Move with A and D or your arrow keys.
Dash with the right mouse button.
- Dash into the die to juggle it.
Aim dice and chips with your mouse. Throw them with the left mouse button.
- Throw chips at the die while it's in flight to keep it airborne.
- Throw chips at coins and banknotes to collect them.
- Chips cost $100 each.
Beat the dealer's roll (on the right) to win the pot displayed below your money counter.
- Your die (on the left) is rerolled whenever your die breaks a block.
- You must meet the $1,000 buy-in before each roll or you will lose!
Complete 10 boards to complete the game.

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Welcome to the King's Court Casino and Hotel.

Take a seat at the table, throw your die into the air, and use casino chips to keep your die airborne; land a roll that beats the dealer's to win the pot. Your dealer today? None other than FUTURE ELVIS -- the King himself. It'll take some hot hands to hang ten with the hound dogs... do you think you have what it takes? You have 10 boards to make it happen.

Created in 48 hours for the GMTK Game Jam in July of 2022, whose theme was roll of the dice.

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The second production by the Limestock Fishing Company:

Blorengerhymes (Graphics)
DonnieDarko (Level design)
Jsburg (Programming)
Karmelyth (Programming, level design)
Redoplus (Audio, voiceover)
Saniblues (Programming)
Zein (Music)

Special thanks:

Matthanic
Yokin

More information

Status	Released
Platforms	Windows
Rating	Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars (2 total ratings)
Authors	Limestock Fishing Co., jsburg, blorengerhymes, Redo, Karmelyth
Genre	Action
Tags	Arcade, GameMaker, Singleplayer

Download

kings_court_v2_yyc.zip 40 MB

Download

kings_court_v2_vm.zip 40 MB

Download

kings_court_jam_release_r1.zip 17 MB

Install instructions

The YYC build should work. If it doesn't, try the VM build.

Development log

Post Jam - King's Court DELUXE
Sep 06, 2022

Comments

WorldMister2 years ago

Very much a neat little game. I do have some observations though;

A very different style of breakout from the norm. I like the concept of being able to shoot the dice with chips to bounce it about, but it is difficult to exactly hit the dice, especially as it is difficult to see the dice as all the coins going all over the place.
The voice lines of Future Elvis helps to add a bit more charm to the game, but at the moment it feels both a bit repetitive and limited. (no unique for clearing the board? not tying the sandwich comments to the random requests that shows up on the board?)
Some aspects of the game feels lackluster or missing, like the main dice gamble feels like a secondary thing that the player can ignore to focus on dropped coins instead, or how there's a lack of "board" counter to show how many boards you got left to go through.
Finally, this is more based on vibes than 'facts', but the game session feels like a singleplayer variant on a multiplayer versus game, which isn't a bad thing though, just something about the game layout and the detrimental popup requests from Future Elvis feels that way.

Nonetheless there's a strong foundation here for a nice game here, maybe even expand beyond just the King's Court into other casinos, but that's up to what the team wants from it. Also in terms of profit, I scored $26605 on my first playthrough, since that's a way of measuring score.

pipotchi2 years ago

profit $-5920, so relatable. good game :)

LloydRage2 years ago

this game ain't nothing but a hound dog

Karmelyth2 years ago

what could he mean with thi

Karmelyth2 years ago(+1)

jsburg2 years ago(-1)

its a reference to an elvis song

Karmelyth2 years ago

i have become marginally more knowledeable thanks bro