Dice With Jerks

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Dice With Jerks was created in Unity, with C#, while I was working as an intern for Gogii Games in Moncton. I created this in a team of 2, as the lead programmer. The game is much like Yhatzee, where you can roll a set of 5 dice 3 times, and hold whichever dice you wish, and place your score accordingly in the score board.

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What makes the game unique, are the jerk moves on the left, allowing you to block, swap, and steal your opponents score, and of course, the trash talking AI named PETE. Pete is our Pretentious, Egotistical, Terminal Enemy, and will criticise you for rolling bad scores and whatnot.

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My Role:

In this project, I took the lead programmer role, and was responsible for most of what you see here. In creating this game, we were given a time constraint, and were to work on it to finish as much as we could, and keep what we accomplished. The game was planned to have multiplayer, but it did not make it that far. Instead, we developed a great, mobile, single player experience. I am particularily proud of the artifical intelligence of the computer player, as he was designed to make the best possible dice selections with his 3 rolls, using recursion. In the background, he would roll and keep, every possible dice, and keep track of which rolls gave him the best score, and selected that "path" as his play path. This resulted in him making the best play with the 3 rolls he received. Adding trash talk at the end was another fun part of this project.

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To try out the game, you can download the apk file here, and put it in your phone. Simply tap on the apk file from within any file explorer, and install. You may have to enable unknown sources in your settings if it is not already.