ROLLOUT

A strategy game about rolling dice

by lights+blue

Rollout is a strategy game where all the actions you take in the game are determined by rolling dice. This can include attacking your enemies, building up defences or getting more dice, every one of these actions are preformed by rolling dice.

The game takes roughly 30 minutes to play, and theres no save data (i gave up on it)

Now select START on the menu to begin!

- Look around - Arrow keys

- Progress menus:  [X]

- Go back a menu:  [Z]

On your turn, you will have two opportunites to roll dice, before the enemy's turn where all the enemies on board attack and travel towards the d100 at the center (defend it!).

To roll the dice on your turn, you will need to press X to reach the SELECT phase. Here, you can select a kind of dice with < / > , and how much of that dice you want to roll with ^ / v.

You can then press X again to target where you want to roll your dice, and then X again to roll the dice at where you targetted. You can target dice towards landing on or near enemies, or on the 4 shop spaces in order to get more dice to use.

Do keep in mind that the dice already out on the board get weaker every turn (however there are ways to stop this).

I would recommend that you either have your dice target an enemy (one of the red board game pieces) or land on a shop space (one of the spaces with brown on the floor and a label above it.)

There is more information on specific concepts in the game in the INFO menu which can be found by pressing (O) / [Z] a few times during gameplay.

I've now put this game on itch.io! I still consider the main page for this game to be the PICO-8 page (Rollout), but its also here now!

If you have PICO-8 and want to run it on there, you can use ' LOAD #ROLLOUT ' to run it there.

- PICO-8 (obviously)

- Sprite2sfont by dw817 for creating fonts

- Aseprite for sketching up ideas and doing most of the pixel art for the game

- Blender (I used it for the cart image because there's no way I can use perspective that well)

- A few code editors (notepad++, vscode)

enjoy!!