Dice A Million news & patch notes

So... four months of Dice A Million huh?!

The time of the month has come... so gather all up my fellow dice rollers, and let's talk about the future of this little game we all love... and hate a little sometimes.

MOBILE AND CONSOLE PROGRESS

Last month there wasn't a Diceletter, mostly because I was still waiting on stuff I needed for the console/mobile ports. But I'm very happy to announce that I've been making a lot of progress recently!

I initially wanted to release on mobile first, but since those versions had some unexpected challenges during testing, and console stuff was quicker than I thought, my goal now is to release on every platform at the same time, including: Android, iOS, macOS, XBOX Series X/S, PS4, PS5 and Switch. Yeah... that's a LOT. Here's a quick rundown on how I'm doing on each platform:

🟡Android/iOS: Running fine, needs some optimization, menu adaption almost done

🟢macOS: Completed

🔵XBOX: needs testing but mostly complete

🟡PS4: needs testing

🟢PS5: Completed

🟠Switch: needs optimization

As you can see, there's not a whole lot left to do, but there are still some things I need to take care of, plus then going through the verification process on each platform/store. Please remember it's just me on the team at this moment, and I'm doing everything I can to get the game to all your devices ASAP!

But that's not all I've been doing...

1.1 COMING...?

You're reading correctly!!! Yes!!! I'm planning to release Dice A Million's first FREE content update, 1.1, over the course of the summer!!

If you remember back in March, I told you I already had plans for a new ending and a lot of new stuff, but in the meantime I've been developing a lot of smaller ideas in my mind, and since some of my big plans would take too much time to do while also porting the game at the same time... I've decided to first make a more grounded update, focused on new stuff to do, new items, and a bunch of QoL improvements.

One thing I want to expand on is dice that aren't cubes or one-faced. I realized the majority of dice in the game are either D3, D6, or straight up not dice (Emeralds, Spintops, etc). Because of that, I want this update to focus on bringing a bunch of new D4, D2 (coins) and a lot more unusual shaped dice!

Take a look at this new Bamboo D4 for example. It's part of a new "set" of D4 which will parallel Iron, Golden and Diamond Die.

Similar idea to Iron Die, but for extra value.

Here's a QoL thing I had planned for the original release, but didn't have the time to do so... Welcome collection sorting!

You'll be able to do reverse sorting as well!

Again, this update will focus on bringing you some fresh new fun ideas into the game, rather than expanding the lore or the paths, even though there will be a bit of that... Let me know what kind of stuff you want to see too!

My goal is to release this 1.1 Update on all platforms at the same time, coinciding with the release of their ports. I can't give a date yet since I depend on verification processes and whatnot, but I definitely want it out before Autumm hits, so expect more info in the coming weeks/months :)

MY NEXT GAME...?!

Apart from Dice A Million... I've been working on my next game very sparsely. Even tho I'm excited as hell to continue, I've been making sure my attention is more focused on DAM these months, at least until I got all the ports and 1.1 out.

Last Diceletter I talked a bit about this project, so go check it out if you want more info, but reminder that this isn't a dice game nor a roguelike. However, its story happens in the same universe as Dice A Million, while being much more dark and serious (trust me it makes sense lol).

Aaanyways, there's still so much I could share from this project that you haven't seen... But I'm keeping everything to myself til I'm happy enough to release a trailer and/or a demo.

However... I think I'd like to show you how the game feels this time around, so here's the main menu music. Hope you enjoy the vibe.

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Today kicks off Strategems Vol. 2 hosted by Goblinz Publishing

A digital event focused on strategy and highly replayable titles.

Find your next hidden gem, jump into exclusive demos, and explore the best the genre has to offer!

Something new?

Looking for some new to try out? Allow me to recommend another sci-fi tower defense taking part in Strategems! 17.waves TD releases TOMORROW!! You can try the free demo now. Or pick it up for CHEAP on launch day, and play with up to 4 players online!

Today kicks off the Game Effect Showcase 2026, hosted by Game Effect!

Game Effect Showcase 2026 is a digital event focused on highlighting independent video games developed by Spanish-speaking studios. Throughout the week, players will discover promising titles, demos, upcoming releases, and featured projects through a special Steam event alongside a video showcase featuring announcements, trailers, and world premieres.

We're very grateful to have Dice A Million included in this event! If you are interested in trying the game for yourself, there is a public demo available right here on Steam.

More games?

2 Left Thumbs has a total of 5 games taking part in this Showcase! If you are interested in supporting additional indie games, then please do consider checking out these titles as well.

Hey there! Sorry for the wait on this update, I've been getting my life together and moving out, and I also wanted to fix a couple of big things on this one, so it took longer than expected. But I finally have my new set up done and working so I'm back at it! I basically fixed 2 of the most requested issues you were having for this update. No more stack overflow crashes and no more drawing dice beyond the screen ;). This patch also brings the boss reroll mechanic to the main branch! It's still subject to change, but I feel it's in a pretty sweet spot now, let me know what you think :) Checkout the changelog below for a more in depth explanation on these.

Apart from that, I buffed Alphabet Block a pretty good amount and I finally added Korean!

Hope you enjoy! :)

Changelog:

- Added Korean

- Added the boss reroll button:

- When you have a boss round in front of you, you can reroll and banish for the run the boss as many times as you want. The first time in a run is free. After that, everytime you do it you'll permanently lose 2 max rings slots.

- My reasoning: maybe you got really unlucky with a boss that kills your build so one is fine, but if you need to reroll too many times... maybe you deserved to lose ;)

- Reworked drawn dice movement code:

- When drawing a lot of dice, rows will squeeze to occupy the same maximum space (4 rows) instead of going over the hand and beyond the edge of the screen. There's still no maximum draw amount.

- Selecting dice feels smoother in general

- Reworked save file enconding method:

- The one I was using before caused some problems when working with a huge bag of dice (+400), so I reworked it, and the stack overflow crash should be completely gone! No matter how big your dice bag is, it should save and work perfectly fine. Expect a bit of lag when having +1000 dice tho, but hey that's to be expected with such a crazy run right?!

Changes:

- Alphabet Block has been greatly buffed. Now copies the sum of every face around it, not just one. It still copies it permanently, so be careful when using it, as you only have one shot at making one big die!

- Alphabet Block now works with Echo too (gains double face value)

- Magic Sponge buffed from +10 to +20 face value per trigger

- Double Dice now counts as two 6-sixed dice for D Diablo 

- Jet area of effect has been reduced

- The Frost boss is now banned on the ''Carlos was here'' challenge

- Shirt Button can no longer make randomized dice stay on table, to avoid inconsistencies (Static Die, Lucky Block, etc)

- Added a visual effect for Tainted Coin

- You can now turn on Debug Mode ingame by going into the collection and holding F8 for a couple of seconds (WARNING: this disables achievements on that save file permanently, I only added this so Game Pass users have a way to access debug mode)

- Reworded Ace up the finger's description to be more clear

Bugfixes:

- Fixed Gilded Ring effect not displaying on booster packs gotten from skipping a round

- Fixed Glitched challenge title not displaying properly in the ingame hud

- FIxed a bunch of UI related issues

- Fixed a typo on Magic Sponge's description

- Fixed Fire Ring not multiplying score rings if no dice are on the table

- Fixed Ultraodd and Ultraeven Rings reunlocking after being already unlocked

- Fixed ghost dice getting into your bag as regular dice after using a Reroll Card

- Fixed a crash involving Jet and Spindown Die

- Fixed Cherub's Die being triggered by highest or lowest face effects, despite having just 1

- Fixed a couple of inconsistencies on the German translation

- Fixed cards and booster packs having no price when having the Bling Bling ring far into The Vortex

- Fixed value on Alphabet Block not being displayed in the right way

- Fixed Evil Eye not destroying itself properly

- Fixed Evil Eye sometimes not working properly on Bicolor Hand

- Fixed some unintended dice area effects being triggered by electric/explosive area effect

- Fixed not being able to use Reroll cards on Enchant Rooms while using controller

- Fixed Shadow Glass not giving you a permanent die copy

- Fixed backups not creating as much as intended

hey there!! here's a very big update I've been working on. sorry for the wait, I was getting my life together and I wanted to fix some very important things, so it took more than I expected initially. I'm releasing this only on a beta branch for now (full version will come out tomorrow or the next day) because I changed a lot of code regarding save files and UI and I don't want to mess up releasing a broken patch to the public. still, it would help me a lot if you could try out and let me know what you think <3 (if you lose your save file somehow, remember you can recover it easily following the backup tutorial I made a few patches ago)

to access the beta just go right click dice a million on steam, click properties, and go to the Betas tab, there use the code "diceamillionbeta2026" and you'll be able to select it

I don't have much time for anything else, so here's the changelog, let me know what you think!!

(there's no in-game changelog on this one in case I change more stuff before release)

Hope you enjoy! :)

Changelog

- Added Korean

- Reworked drawn dice movement code:

- When drawing a lot of dice, rows will squeeze to occupy the same maximum space (4 rows) instead of going over the hand and beyond the edge of the screen. There's still no maximum draw amount.

- Selecting dice feels smoother in general

- Reworked save file enconding code:

- The method I was using before caused some problems when working with a huge bag of dice (+400), so I reworked it, and the stack overflow crash should be completely gone! No matter how big your dice bag is, it should save and work perfectly fine. Expect a bit of lag when having +1000 dice tho, but hey that's to be expected with such a crazy run right?!

Changes:

- Alphabet Block has been greatly buffed. Now copies the sum of every face around it, not just one. It still copies it permanently, so be careful when using it, as you only have one shot at making one big die!

- Alphabet Block now works with Echo too (gains double face value)

- Magic Sponge buffed from +10 to +20 face value per trigger

- Double Dice now counts as two 6-sixed dice for D Diablo 

- Jet area of effect has been reduced

- The Frost boss is now banned on the ''Carlos was here'' challenge

- Shirt Button can no longer make randomized dice stay on table, to avoid inconsistencies (Static Die, Lucky Block, etc)

- Added a visual effect for Tainted Coin

- You can now turn on Debug Mode ingame by going into the collection and holding F8 for a couple of seconds (WARNING: this disables achievements on that save file permanently, I only added this so Game Pass users have a way to access debug mode)

Bugfixes:

- Fixed Gilded Ring effect not displaying on booster packs gotten from skipping a round

- Fixed Glitched challenge title not displaying properly in the ingame hud

- FIxed a bunch of UI related issues

- Fixed a typo on Magic Sponge's description

- Fixed Fire Ring not multiplying score rings if no dice are on the table

- Fixed Ultraodd and Ultraeven Rings reunlocking after being already unlocked

- Fixed ghost dice getting into your bag as regular dice after using a Reroll Card

- Fixed a crash involving Jet and Spindown Die

- Fixed Cherub's Die being triggered by highest or lowest face effects, despite having just 1

- Fixed a couple of inconsistencies on the German translation

DECKBUILDER FEST

Today also kicks off Steam's Deckbuilder Fest!

There are nearly 2000 games taking part in this event.

Dice A Million is 20% off all week as a part of this event

(The first discount since launch!!)

The best thing you can do to help support any other upcoming games taking part, is to wishlist and/or leave reviews on those pages.

MORE GAMES?

2 Left Thumbs alone managed to have 11 games including in this event!

A few highlights of the event include:

The public demo for Decklings. We'd love to hear your feedback!

AND! First playtests are available now for Chaos Coin, King's Haven, Trial by Magic, and SlotsNStock!

Another month, another diceletter!

It's been two months since the release of Dice A Million, and just like last time, here are a couple of updates on what I've been doing!

WHAT I'VE BEEN DOING

April has been a lot less busy than March, of course, the game's already in a pretty good state so I took a very much needed break from development and went for a vacation until this last week. Expect another bugfix and small balance patch this week :)

That being said, I've been working on a lot of Dice A Million things behind the curtains! I've been mostly managing the stuff needed to make the console ports since I want those out asap, but sadly I still don't have much news on them. There's a lot of bussiness work relating to console ports that needs to be done before even actually making the ports, and it just makes me wanna close myself inside a cabin and roll dice til the end of times...

(Update: I wrote this a couple of days ago and just today I received some very good news towards about the console ports, the process is going forward! I'll "most likely" have good news next month)

However... I recently have been able to make a lot of progress towards something else...

DICE A MILLION ON MOBILE

That's right!! Dice A Million is coming to mobile, and very soon in fact!! I originally wanted to release on consoles first, but I didn't know it was gonna be that slow of a process, and since mobile is a lot quicker to set up, it will most likely be releasing there first!

The game's already running perfectly fine on Android, with all of its features like saving/loading and touch controls. There's still a bit of work needed to be done, mostly adapting some small UIs to better fit a mobile screen, but once that's looking good, I'll be able to ship it!

Adapting a game like this to touch controls it's been quite tricky, as there are a lot of differences from having a mouse. Like, being able to see dice descriptions before selecting them, being able to select dice fast and smooth, being able to view the info and area menu, and many etcs.

That being said, everything will be largely the exact same, except for UI changes and the CRT filter being turned off by default, for performance reasons (Even tho you'll be able to turn it on in settings)

Still work in progress, some pointless settings like fullscreen have been removed too

I have no experience publishing anything neither on the Play Store or the App Store, so I don't know how much time it will be for them to review the game (especially looking at Apple), so even though my goal right now is to release simultaneously both on Android and iOS, the latter may come later if it delays the release too much, not sure yet. I'll keep you guys updated on this :)

Follow me on twitter or bluesky to be up to date since I won't be posting much about this here (apart from monthly diceletters), since this is for Steam PC news.

CONTENT UPDATES

As I mentioned on the latest Diceletter, I do have plans for the next Dice A Million content update, but I won't start actively working on it until the game is released on every platform, and that includes mobile and consoles of course. However, I made some tiny progress on further designing the new ending, some new dice and a revamp to a current existing mechanic which I don't 100% really like at the moment. Don't get me wrong, I'm super happy with the state the game released in, but there's one major mechanic I feel like could have been done a bit better, so expect a pretty notable change whenever the time comes!

yeah this is the same gif as last time as I don't have much else to show lol

OTHER STUFF...?

Besides getting my life together, managing post launch DAM stuff and resting... I've been working quite a bit on something else. It's not remotely ready to be shown to the public, last week I completed its first private demo, a prototype, if you will, but it's been a blast to work on something new after almost 2 years of just Dice A Million. I've been secretly talking about this project for a long time and after making this very cool first prototype, I can say this is gonna be my next game, unless I come up with a smaller sideproject in the meantime, which could totally be the case lol

I don't know when or how I'm gonna release this game, since it is a very big one and has a lot of intricate systems and story. I once considered releasing it in chapters, but that won't work with its current structure, though definitely expect a demo some time :) I also should say that it has nothing to do with Dice A Million in terms on gameplay. so don't expect another dice game, heck not even another roguelike. I'm 100% aware that when I make a proper announcement, some people will be disappointed that I'm not making another similar game, but that's something I knew from the beginning. If you enjoyed the lore and hidden secrets of Dice A Million, as well as its underlying story... I'm sure you will enjoy this next thing.

Hey all! This past week I've been setting up two new languages for the game, revamping the Backup system, and fixing a ton of stuff. Hope you enjoy everything! :) Even though I've been working to add Korean and Turkish, only the latter is included in this patch. Korean is coming in the next few days, as it still needs a bit more polish, but I wanted to release this update either way :)

Also, quick note on the German translation, I've noticed a few people expressing their feedback on the translation, as it seemingly is not very accurate in some points. Of course I don't speak German myself so I can't know for sure, but it seems like a major point of discussion, so we'll definitely find a way to fix that soon, for sure!

New:

- Added Turkish language

- Reworked how save backups are stored, now stores 1 each day, up to 5 (per profile, so 15 in total)

- Added a way to restore backup data for Xbox Game Pass. Check out a little tutorial for both GP and Steam at the bottom of this changelog! (Though some users that reported data loss on Game Pass have discovered that it was a sync problem with their accounts and they managed to get it back by relogging. Please make sure it's not that before messing with save file backups, to avoid accidentally overwriting anything)

Boss Reroll changes:

(ONLY AVALIABLE ON BETA BRANCH FOR NOW, ACCESSED WITH THE PASSWORD ''diceamillionbossreroll" )

- First reroll is now free, but ups the value of of every future round after (similar to how Power IV does)

I haven't had the time to work much on this this past week, but it'll be my priority next update, let me know your thoughts as always!

Changes:

- Rubik's Cube now gets the sum of all extra value gotten by its pieces during a roll (so if 4 of its pieces gain +5 extra value, Rubik's will get 20 in total)

- Hermit's Stone now affects Pocket Pencil

- Cell Ring is now affected by the Double Rings effect

- Aquarium is now triggered before Vampire Die

- Marble's increased chance of appearing now caps out at 80%, making it possible to still find other dice on marble runs

- You can now use the spacebar to confirm the roll with the Manually confirm score option on

- Double Die's inner face is now affected by Angel Die, and also made it trigger later so it can benefit from Angel's value change

- Reduced area effect flickering when using the Photosensitive Mode

- During the ''I can't believe it's not a D6'' challenge, removing a Double Die now gives you a normal D6, instead of a Minidie

- During the ''I can't believe it's not a D6'' challenge, Hexagonal Ring now always gives you a ghost uncommon die, instead of a legendary one

- Tweaked a bit how the language menu looks to make room for more languages

- Tweaked some special characters like Ç to be more readable in some situations

Bugfixes:

- Fixed Bicolor Hand not being able to change parity on deactivated dice

- Fixed a bug that caused runs to be lost if you successfully beat Dice Rush in the last roll

- Fixed Electric Die area not being affected by Aura Ring

- Fixed Blackjack challenge sometimes not giving you the stamp upgrade menu

- Fixed Gilded Cell Ring not working properly

- Fixed a game freeze regarding the trade event and marbles

- Fixed a UI collision mismatch on the upgrade event

- Fixed animated dice not animating when rolling for rewards on the map

- Fixed selling a card counting as using a card for the stats menu

- Fixed a crash involving ring rooms and NaN score

- Fixed Anchor copies sometimes triggering their effects on the table despite not being their intended behaviour

- Fixed being able to use Lucky Ring's reroll button when paused

- Fixed being able to infinitely reroll end of round rewards with Lucky Ring after saving and loading

- Fixed occult dice counting as rare/legendary for some niche interactions

- Fixed a situation that allowed you to select any hand on the tutorial run (again lol)

- Fixed Bottle of Caps giving you the bottlecaps on some unintended situations

- Fixed a couple of UI problems on some languages

- Added a failsafe to avoid some crashes related to Spindown Die

- Fixed using a transform card on a selected Minidie causing the handsize counter to become negative

- Fixed a certain late game transformative die being able to transform story-related dice

- Fixed a UI problem on the boss performance screen

- Fixed various UI problems on the main menu

- Fixed a crash involving Glitched Die transforming another die into Alphabet Block

- Fixed stacked roll effects (time die, ice die, etc) not showing up their quantity in their description

- Fixed Casino Die not working properly with Equity Ring

- Fixed Die of Fortune giving you a marble if you had too many

- Fixed Ancient Die being able to give you unintended dice while playing as the Final Hand

- Fixed an exploit involving holding R on the map

- Fixed various Japanese font related issues

Restoring a backup:

If your save file gets corrupted or just disappears completely, here's the way to restore it:

- Head up to the save file location (found in AppData > local > dice_a_million > default > backup)

- Here you can see your backups with their date on the file name, following this structure: ''data_\_backup\\\.sav''

(you may see a_back/b_back etc files from a previous iteration of this system, just ignore and/or delete them)

- Take the most recent one (or whichever you want) and rename it to ''data_\.sav'', where \ is just the number corresponding to the profile you used to create that data. so it should end up looking as ''data_1.sav'', ''data_2.sav'' or ''data_3.sav''

- IF YOU'RE ON STEAM/ITCH: Just put the file on the ''default'' folder, replacing any other existing one and you should be good to go! (if it still doesn't work, try turning off Steam Cloud)

- IF YOU'RE ON GAME PASS: Exit the backup folder and inside ''default'' create a folder named ''restore'', put your data_X.sav there. Upon booting the game, it should load that up and replace your current cloud save file, as well as deleting the file you put in restore. (make a copy of it before doing so, just in case something fails!)

A year and a half ago I was coming up with an idea for a dice roguelike. Combining elements of games I love like Balatro, The Binding Of Isaac or Inscryption, I quickly made a fun prototype.

Fast forward to today... and Dice A Million has sold +45k copies in its first month.

Thank you all for changing my life and making it possible for me to make games ;)

FIRST MONTH RETROSPECTIVE

So yeah, 45k copies sold is pretty crazy huh?! We're also almost at 700 reviews on Steam, and I have pushed +12 patches since release (that's almost 1 every 2 days!!)

Every single bad bug should have been fixed as of now, so there's only some balance left to do. I think most of the dice/rings are in pretty good shape now, just the bosses that clearly need some tweaking :)

Last week I pushed pretty big update including a boss reroll mechanic in a beta branch, and I'm still tweaking the feature as a lot of you weren't 100% on board with this interation. I'll definitely have some news on this on the following days!

Now, I know this is a game about numbers... but let's stop talking about them and let's see what have people been up to!!

roll by errickfoxy

Between lagging the fuck out of the game and breaking all of its little parts... I've seen some pretty cool plays around online!

The meta seems to be revolving around ET Die and Mono Token right now... which I felt were more on the weaker side when developing the game! That's a pretty beautiful thing about this game, it feels SUPER alive to me. Sometimes I get asked "countless how does this interaction go???" and I'm like dude I have no idea I've never tried it lol. Almost every element has a place in any sort of weird wacky build I didn't even think about, and I think that's awesome.

roll by crazyblade626

There's also an ongoing Youtube series by GothicLordUK that goes pretty deep into the secrets of the game, and I've been enjoying it quite a lot, so go check it out if you want some Dice A Million content before sleep!

I also released the OST a few weeks ago, free to download on Bandcamp, and also avaliable to stream on Youtube, Spotify, Apple Music, and every single music platform you can imagine!

FAN CONTENT

As well as putting dozens of hours into the game, some people have been creating some crazy content around it, so I wanted to feature some of it here!

These are some amazing character dice designs by kontayreal, they have a few more on progress you can check out on the discord server. They've also made a few more artworks I've featured here before, go follow them they make awesome art!!

IRL Schrodinger's Die by Netoch

This is a screenshot from a modding tool Jibinsu has been developing for you to be able to add custom dice to the game very easily! It's still early but here's a quick test die they put together. It will have a custom graphic interface where you will be able to write dice descriptions, add sprites and even custom functionality. As the developer of the game... I gotta say I have no idea how this works, feels like dark magic to me lol. News on this will be shared on the modding channel over on the discord server, so be sure to join in you're interested in that :)

And lastly, quick shoutout to Vivian (@JADEDH0LL0WS), who's writing a pretty cool fanfiction based on the game's lore and characters... 👀

NEAR FUTURE

So... what now?

First thing I want to do is close the game post-launch cycle, that means finishing off the boss reroll feature and any other balance changes left to do. I think that should take 1-3 weeks.

After that we'll focus on bringing Dice A Million to consoles and mobile. Can't give an exact timeframe for that since it depends on other people, but I want it to be as fast as possible! Luckily, the game engine I use (Gamemaker) makes it pretty easy to port the game to other platforms, so it shouldn't take a long time :)

Bringing the game to consoles will be pretty straight forward, since controller support is already in. Mobile is where we'll face more trouble, since a lot of UI elements in the game are very small to navigate with a touchscreen (I didn't think the game would become that big when I first designed everything ok?!), but we'll for sure find a way :)

Follow me on Twitter or Bluesky to be up to date with these versions if you're interested!

FAR FUTURE

So... what's AFTER that?!

After the game is out on consoles/mobile and stable and I get some very much needed rest over the summer... I'll maybe start cooking up Dice A Million 1.1.

I already have a clear idea of what this version would contain, as its main content is something I always had in mind, and once envisioned for 1.0 (even though it was unreasonable looking back now...)

That makes the update a whole lot easier to develop! Since I don't have to sit down and start brainstorming new crazy ideas onto a blank piece of paper.

Expect new dice and rings of course, new hand(s), new mechanics, new secrets, and a new ending.

Not sure when all of this will come out since my life has been and will be moving quite a bit this year, as you can imagine.

Besides... I also will be cooking something else... Which brings me to the next point...

FARER FUTURE...?

Dice A Million has kickstarted my career and made me able to do videogames for a living, and I couldn't be more grateful for it. But, as you may know if you've read some of my posts before, I have other stuff in the videogame world that I want to do eventually.

Dice A Million was a compromise. A compromise between what I like and what the market likes. It ended up being something a lot more special and big than I've anticipated when I started development... But my heart's still aching for something else.

If you've dug around Dice A Million, you may have found some strange stuff, some stuff that seemingly has no explanation. You know what I'm talking about, right...?

I don't know when, but I know it'll be coming, and I cannot wait for you all to be able to see it.

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Til next month, keep on rolling ❤️

Hey there! I've been taking a few days off to think about the boss reroll mechanic. Made a poll on the discord server (which you should totally join btw...) and well, 95% of the players really wanted or would be happy about the feature.

I gave it some thought and came up with something I think is pretty clever, you can read more about it below on the patch notes! However, since it's a pretty big gameplay change, I wanted to get some feedback first, so I pushed specifically that to a beta branch, which you can access with the password ''diceamillionbossreroll". Everything else listed in this changelog is avaliable on the default branch :) There's also some balance to Bicolor Hand, which a lot of you have been asking for, and a few pretty big optimizations to the code, it is definitely the biggest update to date!

As always, let me know your opinions on everything, til next time ;)

Also WARNING: this version breaks previous run saves, so finish off any pending runs before updating!

Boss Reroll:

(ONLY AVALIABLE ON BETA BRANCH FOR NOW, ACCESSED WITH THE PASSWORD ''diceamillionbossreroll")

- When you are in the map and have a boss round next up, there's a new button to reroll the boss with no pip cost.

- This will banish that boss for the rest of the run (not counting Dice Rush), and reduce your maximum ring capacity by 2. If you had more rings than your new max, 2 random ones are removed.

- You can use this feature up to 5 times in a run, since by that point, you won't be able to carry any rings at all. (Blue Hand gets an extra use, since it has 6 fingers)

- This feature is disabled on the Ringless and Natural 6 challenges.

Bicolor Hand Balance:

- Bicolor Hand now has 6 handsize

- Bicolor Hand now has 6 dice per turn

- When using Bicolor Hand or the Parity Indicator setting, dice score boxes now have a slight color tint indicating the parity on the dice (orange for even, blue for odd and black for zero)

- The Even and The Odd bosses are now banned for Bicolor Hand

- Fixed 0 sometimes counting as even (as it should count as neither odd nor even)

Changes:

- Reworked the roll effects code (effects like time die, ice, double ring etc)

This should make them practically lag-free, and much easier for modders to mess with

Also added a couple of new UI animations regarding them

- Added/removed a bunch of keyword descriptions that were missing or incorrectly assigned

- Added an accesibility option to reduce flashing lights from static-like effects

- Added the correct Fibonacci sequence to the keywords descriptions (up to 1597)

- Red Giant is now affected by Pocket Pencil

- Natural 6 and Ringless challenges now start with 2 less D3

- Using a Gift Card to draw a Minidie now draws another random one

- Minidie with Echo now draws two additional dice

- You can now use reroll cards on Starter Packs and Dice Rush entry rewards

- Water Ring now always triggers before Spring

- You can no longer use Choose Face cards on dice hidden by the Blackout or other things

- Put a limit to electric bolts spawned by Electric Die to avoid extreme lag (this is only visual, everything still gets the effect)

- Fixed and added some translations for French and Russian

Bugfixes:

- Fixed some visual bugs regarding gilded rings (still not perfect tho, I'm working on the shader)

- Fixed NaN score becoming 0 when halving it

- Fixed Blackout+ not actually giving you -1 handsize despite its description stating it

- Fixed mult from cards not being saved when exiting and loading a run

- Fixed Choose Face card not working on Piñatas

- Fixed Gift Card not working with Donut Ring

- FIxed Donut Ring sometimes giving more extra value than intended

- Fixed being able to get a duplicate Friendship Ring during a run

- Fixed rings reppearing on the avaliable list after saving and exiting a run

- Fixed The Witch being able to target non-rolled dice

- Fixed Mimic Ring not triggering when rolling no dice

- Fixed a bunch of exploits regarding hitting ESC and the settings menu

- Fixed a bug where you could play as any hand after deleting your save data

- Fixed discarded dice effects sometimes being barely visible on the top of the screen

- Fixed a small visual bug on the map dice roll screen

- Fixed some typos in Spanish

- Fixed more spelling errors

Dice A Million is now in Japanese!

This is also a pretty big patch with a good amount of bugfixes and changes, so be sure to read through ;)

After this, I feel like the game's pretty stable now, so next up I'll be testing the boss reroll mechanic. I already have something in the works, but since it is a pretty big change for the game, I'll be pushing it to a beta branch really soon, I'll let you know once it's so you can test it and give me feedback before it going public :)

here are the patch notes!

New:

- Added Japanese

- Added a hitmarker effect for Mini-AWP

Changes:

- Made the hands code more mod-friendly to avoid some issues when modding

- Hexagonal Ring now always give you legendary dice when having a lot of marbles

- Added 1597 to the prime number list, since Fibonacci's Die can roll it

- Added a limit warning to Fibonacci's Die when it's maxxed out at 1597

- Lucky Block can no longer transform into Alphabet Block

- Made Mimic Die trigger after Psychodie

- Shy Die now takes double score from the wealth enchantment

- You can now properly check dice on trade events when using a controller

- Added the shattered die piece achievements to the sync feature (If your Steam/Xbox achievements ever fail for some reason, you can open the collection and press F2 to resync them with your ingame unlocks)

Bugfixes:

- Fixed not being able to select dice on the table like Spintop for an active ring effect when using controller

- Fixed Balance Ring not working on large face dice like D100 or D666

- Fixed One Ring always making Fibonacci's Die roll a 1, even if it doesn't currently have that face

- Fixed Dark Matter D4s actually affecting each other despite stating the opposite in their description

- Fixed Dice Rush skipping when doing ALT+F4 on the previous pack selection

- Fixed an error on the German translation

- Fixed frozen dice not properly retaining their face when loading a run

- Fixed Pocket Pencil having the incorrect parity tag

- Fixed a crash involving events on the final hand

- Fixed a couple of spelling errors

- Fixed the locked face UI having some size problems

The Dice A Million Soundtrack is now avaliable! I've put it up on Youtube and as a free download on bandcamp (it didn't feel right charging for a 16 minute soundtrack lol), but you can choose your own price!

other services like Spotify, Apple Music, etc, will be getting it in a couple of days :)

We're almost two weeks into Dice A Million and I couldn't be more thankful about your support, we reached +30k copies sold, and almost 500 reviews on Steam!! As may you know, I've been putting up a lot of patches (almost daily!) addressing bugs, balance changes and everything else in between. I'm not done yet with those, as I still want to add/change a couple of things, so keep tuned! And after that... We'll discuss the future of DaM in the next diceletter :)

Also, he launch discount will be over in 2 days, so if you're reading this and still haven't got your hands in the game... What are you waiting for to lose all your free time to dice?!

Now, here's the changelog for the small patch I just pushed!

1.0.20 Changelog:

Changes:

- Changed Water Ring physics to make it a lot more consistent 

- Added a ring visual indicator for Rubber Band

- Added missing translations for French, Chinese and Portuguese

Bugfixes:

- Fixed Double Rings card spawning in the Ringless challenge

- Fixed you being able to get the same die on the "upgrade" event (the one which rolls up to 10 identical dice from your bag)

- Fixed you being able to trigger a certain secret event while on a challenge

- Fixed Isaac's Die rerolling itself into 5 not giving an extra roll (again lol)

- Fixed being able to use choose card on some dice with 1 face

- Fixed a crash involving Bicolor Hand and The Gluton

- Fixed a crash involving Mono Token

Here's another big patch! I was gonna wait a few days to push this one but a pretty big bug regarding a certain hand was discovered (it basically made its gimmick not work lol) so I decided to push it as it is. I've included a good amount of QoL features you've been asking for, and also reworked Alphabet Block!

hope you enjoy, let me know your opinions on this one :)

(still thinking on the boss reroll mechanic, I'll have something for testing on a beta branch by next week ;))

have a good weekend!

Dice Balance:

- Reworked Alphabet Block:

Now instead of the effect, permanently copies the face value of a nearby die, making it useful for copying high faced dice

-Magic 8 Ball is now rare

- Mono Token is now always face 0, and triggers its effect mid roll, similar to how Mimic Die works.

Boss Balance:

- Reduced The Dusty's explosive area

QoL:

- Reworked the extra dice spawn code, should be more consistent overall and trigger dice copies in their intended order, as well as eliminating infinite loops (I tried doing this a couple of patches ago but broke the code accidentally and just decided to quickly revert the changes and revisit this later)

- You can now press A on your keyboard to use autoselect (if enabled)

- Added up and down arrows to stats on the hand select menu alongside green/red colors, for accesibility reasons

- You can now click on select dots on the hand select menu to quickly scroll through the hands

- Added a safety delay when trying to roll with no dice on controller, to avoid accidental rolls

Bugfixes:

- Fixed Bicolor Hand main mechanic being broken

- Fixed NaN score not resetting while in The Vortex

- Fixed not being able to buy dice with NaN score

- Fixed buying something with NaN price not subtracting anything to your score

- Fixed shattered die resetting your score when buying with NaN

- Fixed the Power VI Blue Hand unlock not always unlocking as intended

- Fixed Sudoku and Dicecoin not unlocking when having Skip Animations on

- Fixed Skip Rolls button spawning in unintended places when loading a run

- Fixed Ruby Stamps from chests having the silver sprite

- Fixed Tesseract and Magnetic Die creating an infinite loop

Hey there! Smaller patch today, mostly addressing bugs and crashes, I still managed to fit in a couple of gameplay changes, but this is not the 2nd Balance Patch, that will come in a few days.

Thanks so much for the response and all the feedback, it's been a bit overwhelming to me, but I feel the love and passion! even in the criticism ;)

Anyways here are all the changes:

- The Patient boss now deactivates half of your dice instead of all of them

- The Patient boss is now banned on the "Peanuts!" challenge

- Echo Hourglass works properly now (but rolling multiple of them still does nothing)

- Beating bosses in Dice Rush now counts towards unlocks for beating them

- Extra spawned dice and stuff on the table (like fire and notes) can now be exhausted, disappearing and triggering any exhaust effects

- Added French and Russian translations for changes in 1.0.14

Bugfixes:

- Ink Die change from latest patch wasn't actually working lol

- Fixed Magic 8 Ball not working with Dada Die

- Master Volume didn't save if turned down to 0

- Fixed not being able to go into Dice Rush after rolling the dice on the map and then skipping the round

- Fixed a crash when exiting on the Dice Rush rewards

- Fixed a rare crash that could happen when checking the map

- Fixed a certain boss not advancing its phase when scoring NaN

- You couldn't skip rewards on a certain secret chest

- Spring didn't work with dice rolled by a certain boss

- Fixed a minor error on the Russian translation

- Curses gotten through The Witch boss didn't count towards the collection

- Enchantment icons didn't show up in the collection if you have never picked up a D6

- Fixed equity ring still working on some niche interactions even when deactivated

- Fixed a crash that happened when a boss tried to deactivate an Alphabet Block transformed into a Rubik's Cube piece (my god that's specific lol)

- Fixed a bunch of controller related crashes

Hey all! I heard you loud and clear, difficulty needs some adjustment. So I made some changes.

This is the first balance patch, I know a lot of you mentioned bosses being harsh in your comments, but I decided to focus on dice and general balance for this first update.

I'm still thinking on how to implement a mechanic that lets you reroll bosses, since I feel like that would be the best way to tackle this problem, but for now, I'll let you guys tell me if you find this new version more forgiving overall! (I did nerf a couple of bosses tho ;)) The major thing I did here is the first line in the general balance section. It may not seem like much but trust me that makes the whole experience sooo much smoother.

Again, super open to any feedback, let me know what you guys think of these changes, and what else would you like! :)

Note: some of the changes are not still properly translated to any languages besides english and spanish but I decided to prioritize gameplay changes first, so you'll see them in english for now, hope you don't mind!

General Balance:

- Starter dice (Bottlecap, D3, D4 and D6) can no longer appear in any rewards or shops during a run

- Dice in shops/rewards now slightly up in rarity as you progress through the run

- Tweaked the code that spawns extra dice, should be behaving more consistently with dice like dumbbell

- Extra dice spawned from other dice now inherit their extra value (i.e. Die of Dice)

- Dice Rush now resets effects from the previous boss when going into the next one (like fires from Pyro, deactivations from Capricious, and etc)

- Some bosses like The Patient, The Gluton and The Cautious can no longer appear in Dice Rush

Dice Balance:

- Pocket Pencil buffed from 4X to 6X

- Foam Dice now gives +5 extra value to nearby dice, as well as exhausting them

- Ancient Die now guarantees a legendary die

- Made Fibonacci's Die limit higher (previously it was 610, now it's 1597)

- D10 buffed from +1 to +2 extra value per die on the table

- Red Giant buffed from +1 to +3 face value per trigger

- Ivory Die buffed from +0.1 to +0.2 stamp multiplier

- Ink Die buffed from +0.2 to +0.5 stamp multiplier

- Wooden Die buffed from +2 to +4 extra value

- Magic Sponge now removes curses from dice, but destroys itself when it does so

Ring Balance:

- Fishbone Charm buffed from +2 to +4 extra value

- Square Ring now always gives a random card at the start of a new round

Boss Balance:

- The Frost boss no longer deactivates one of your dice

- The Envious got reworked. Its previous effect is now its plus version, the normal one now discards dice that rolled their highest face, making it quite less punishing.

- The Copycat got reworked. Its previous effect is now its plus version, the normal one now divides dice with a repeated face by the number of dice with that face, making it like an inverse version of the Equivalent Link ring.

- The Cautious boss can no longer spawn on Yellow Hand runs 

Hands Balance:

- White Hand now starts with 2 less D3

Bugfixes:

- Echo didn't work on Fibonacci's Die

- Fibonacci's Die didn't work with Conservative Ring despite having 6 faces 

- Casino Die effect didn't work as intended when using the One Ring

- The Frost boss always froze 0 on Fibonacci's Die, regardless of your current face layout

- Certain hand couldn't get intended dice at the start

- Fixed an error on the French translation regarding Haste Ring (and other minor ones)

- Fixed a couple of color errors on the Russian translation 

- Fixed a visual bug on the dice score popup

- Magic 8 Ball didn't work properly with Sudoku, Bottle of Caps and other specific combos

- Fixed a crash when checking the map on a certain really advanced purple place

- No flashbang mode didn't affect certain flashbang cutscenes

- Fixed a crash involving NaNeinf and Vampire Die

- Fixed a softlock when using a Choose Face card with a dice too low in your selection

- Fixed the phone round end popup still briefly appearing when Skip Animations setting is on

- Fixed rings being able to appear on chests on the Ringless challenge

- Fixed a crash when pressing rb and lb at the same time on a controller

Hey everyone!! I hope you've been having a wonderful time rolling your dice, putting on some rings... you know the deal. I've been completely out of words because of the response these past couple of days, watching you play and enjoy the game... We even sold 10k copies and reached 1,000 concurrent players, how crazy is that?! Thank so much, from the bottom of my heart, but now, it is time to give you back some love.

After I pushed a first bugfix patch yesterday I think the game's now pretty good in that regard! However, I heard you loud and clear, something in the difficulty needs to be adjusted.

My personal take on it is that there are sooo many viable builds that will get you there, but there is, of course, a lot of noise too, which is fine for experienced players who know how and what to filter out, but not so for new ones, and I can get where some frustration is coming from.

A lot of you have been complaining about bosses, and I totally get what you mean! There can be some pretty harsh boss fights, but balancing them without making them feel like a child's game is quite challenging, so I'll be focusing on buffing a bunch of dice and rings in this first balance update, and see if that helps a bit. After that, I'll focus on bosses :)

Now, I want to work along with the community to make the game better! So, let me know your top 3 worst dice, top 3 worst rings, and top 3 worst bosses.

I'll be carefully taking care of these over the weekend and get back with the update as soon as possible. So yeah, thank you so much again, and let me know! :)

hey again! quick follow up addressing a major issue on steam deck, should be fixed now! :)

let me know if you have any more issues, really sorry for the hiccup there!

Bugfixes:

• Steam Deck would become unresponsive after using the touch screen

• Steam Deck resolution was weird

• Fixed a bug where the screen quickly went in and out of fullscreen after alt-tabbing

welcome to a first round of patches! this one comes with a couple of translation errors fixed as well as some QoL features and a bunch of bugfixes.

thanks so much for the overwhelmly positive support on the launch, means the world to me :)

QoL:

- Added a "No-Flashbang Mode" to the graphic settings to prevent flashbangs from removing dice ;)

- You can now click "Retry" on the setting menu instead of holding if you're on the starter pack selection screen

Balance:

- Toned down a bit the roll scaling on a certain new hand

Bugfixes:

- Fixed "This roll" tooltip on rings having some layering problems

- Fixed errors on the Chinese translation for the Transform card and The Witch boss

- Fixed errors on the French translation for The Hollow boss, The Patient boss, and other minor ones

- Fixed Enchants not being visible in the collection if you had never taken a D6

- Fixed not being able to see area or info on dice on a trade event

- Fixed Enchant rooms not working properly if you had less than 3 dice in your bag

- FIxed a crash involving Dicecoin

- Fixed certain Boss variations not properly showing up in the collection

- Fixed Fibonacci Die not displaying correctly when gotten from a chest

- Added a small cooldown when closing map/dice manu to prevent accidentally clicking stuff

- Fixed "Carlos was here" challenge being unlocked even with Green Hand locked

- Fixed Red Giant gaining value even when discarded or deactivated

- Fixed a rare crash involving Lucky Block and a new certain card

- Fixed a bunch of controller related crashes

- Fixed a crash while trying to read info on some enchantments

DICE A MILLION IS OUT!!!

You're not dreaming, I am not dreaming. Dice A Million is finally out and you can go check it out right now!!! Isn't that crazy?! Scope out our launch Bundles to see if you qualify for an additional discount, or to show some love to some indie gems!

Thanks so much for the support over this past year and a half, it has meant the world to me. But I am convinced this is only the beginning...

There's so much stuff I've put into this game, so much dice, rings, and secrets to uncover. You'll see... I can't wait to watch you all reach certain moments!!

But I won't talk too much more here, just go grab the game, like what are you waiting for?!?!

art by kontayreal :)

also! be sure to join our discord server to get future updates, teasers, and chat with me and the community, I'm pretty active there and they are awesome!

see you soon on the first patch after you break inevitably my game in its entirety ;)

-countlessnights

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Please consider checking out this pachinko-style incremental game from fellow Spanish developers:

We are currently running a playtest on the game, and would greatly appreciate your feedback!

Be sure to add Void Pachinko to your Wishlist. Thank you for all the support!

-Graeme (2 Left Thumbs)

Soooo Dice A Million is finally coming out on the 25th of February! On Steam and Xbox PC GamePass!

Take a look at this awesome trailer I've made!!!

Thank you so much for all the love and support over these past few months, it's been so heartwarming to see all the videos, theories and fanart (we even got mods before the game came out!!).

The game was originally set to release last month, but got pushed back a little bit to be able to work with the Xbox team to bring the game to GamePass on Day One, hope you enjoy this news!!!! (I am so excited about this!!!!!)

2025 was one ride of a year. The OG demo will turn one year old the day of the 1.0 release, and I cannot believe how far we've come since celebrating 100 wishlists to now being well over 27,000. This little game has become my whole life at this point, and I cannot wait for you to have a taste on what I've been cooking all this time...

Now... it's my turn to deliver the best game possible, and oh boy I think you're in for a ride. See you in 3 weeks! (I still gotta fix some stuff lol)

Also!! be sure to join our discord server if you wanna be updated as quickly as possible on the development of the game, as that's where I'm the most active :)

Today kicks off the big 2 Left Thumbs Publisher Sale!

Explore the full event page to scope out loads of discounts, free games, bundles and more!

Coming February 25th

Dice A Million officially has a release date!! You can read all about it here

NEW RELEASE

Yesterday saw the release of Underboard, a new team-based tactical roguelike autobattler!

(The lead artist of which did the awesome custom art for this sale!)

COMING SOON

3 more games have received official release dates! Each of which offers a public demo.

Crawling Angels - Physics-based Puzzle Horror - March 13th

Wasteland Bites - Survival Horror Food Truck Manager - April 3rd

Besmirch - Survival Horror Farming Sim - May 11th

WHAT ELSE?

There were too many announcements this year to include in store page post.

Check out this news post with EVERYTHING related to this year's 2 Left Thumbs sale!

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Hey everyone! Last week I confirmed Simplified Chinese would be supported at launch and updated the demo to include it. Today I bring you the rest of the languages!

The demo (and full game) now supports:

• Portuguese (Brazil)

• German

• Russian

French is in the works too but isn't ready for the demo yet, so will be included later.

With those I think we covered all of the major languages we wanted. Again, this is such an honor to me, to have all of these different languages on my silly little dice game, so thank you for giving me this opportunity <3

If your preferred language isn't here, drop a comment so we can consider it for the future :)

And that's it for now! really exciting times for me and Dice A Million, I seriously can't WAIT to show you all of what I've been working on for 1.0...