You Died is a 2D action game where you, a six-sided die, fight off other dice using weapons acquired by rolling! We made this project for the Game Maker’s Toolkit Jam 2022.

Taking inspiration from Dark Souls, Titan Souls, and 2D fighting games, You Died takes the theme of "Roll of the Dice" to a literal degree, with dodge-rolling being essential to survive and fend off the attackers. With that being the theme, I aimed to use dice for as much of the sound design as possible, using them for all of the character sounds and UI sounds.

With game jams being a great time and place to learn new things, I used this as an opportunity to better learn Wwise as the middleware for the project, which is the first game project I have used Wwise for. In addition to the desktop version of the game using Wwise, the WebGL build (currently a work-in-progress) uses the Unity built-in audio system; however, to keep the audio experience as close as possible across both, I made a tool that uses a scriptable container for randomly selecting a sound from an array, along with multiple settings and options to bring it to parity with Wwise.

With my focus on learning for this jam, I opted for a Creative Commons music track in lieu of composing an original track, with the credit below.

Celtic Impulse by Kevin MacLeod http://incompetech.com

Creative Commons — Attribution 4.0 International — CC BY 4.0