Audamir
A dice strategy game: conquer the whole map.
A single-player game that runs right in the browser.
The game is being prepared. For now you can read the blog and the wiki.
Video
What you find in the game
Kastgard
Dice, stacks and territories on a map: Principalities, Tribes, free play, puzzles, the daily challenge and the campaign.
Colony
A hexagonal duel without dice: a piece copies itself or jumps and flips the enemy pieces.
Lines
One stone per turn, and whoever makes a line wins. From Three in a row to Drop five.
The hero
Level, coins, a title, an epithet and a helmet that grows with the Asgard reputation.
Achievements
Chains of steps for Kastgard, Rokgard and general ones; they pay coins and some grant a title or an epithet.
Record and analysis
Replay a finished game, have it analysed and turn it into a picture or music.
From the blog
- PART 06
How deep is dice poker? An exact calculation that comes before building
Five dice, two re-rolls and nine payout tables. An exact calculation shows how much better optimal play is than a simple rule, and that it depends on the table more than expected. The tool and the tables are given in full.
- PART 05
Archaeology of the project itself: three and a half days from copies of a folder and the history of git
The git history begins only on 18 October at 12:24, but the game was made a day earlier. How the dates of files and four copies of a folder can reconstruct what happened, and what that says about working with an assistant.
- PART 04
From the tavern to Knucklebones: why big games have dice of their own
Dice in The Witcher, Kingdom Come: Deliverance, Cult of the Lamb, Assassin's Creed and Baldur's Gate 3. A list of games where dice are thrown, what the developers said about it, and why a whole game can be made of dice alone.
- PART 03
From bones to Ludo: a long history of throwing dice
When was a die first thrown? Nobody knows exactly. A survey from graves in Iran through the Mahabharata and the Indian Ludo to the first rules of probability, and a table of chances from the game this series is about.
- PART 02
When the game was finished: how games were made in the 90s and what they compete for today
Five people, one floppy disk and no fix after release. The world of the original Dice Wars set against a world where a game barely stays in sight, with numbers, and what it means for a game that is not meant to be finished.
- PART 01
Twenty years and almost no update
After twenty years the original Dice Wars is still unique and still almost the same. When exactly it came out, what happened to it, what it lacks for today's player and where this series is going.