Dice Card Heroes news & patch notes

Hey everyone, todays patch is the first one to not only fix things but also introduce some new content and quality of life changes.

New

• 5 new items available for all heroes:

  • Strange Slime - common - Buffs your debuff sides of your dice.

  • Leaf Shield - common - Give you 1 block whenever you are buffed or debuffed.

  • Red Thread - common - Shuffles your deck at the start of the fight, allowing for awesome synergies.

  • Cloudwalker Cape - rare - Gives you luck whenever you use dice, allowing you to reroll more.

  • Crystalized Focus - rare - Fills your focus whenever you shuffle your deck.

• 3 new weapons, one for each hero:

  • Chainsaw Blade - Knight - Attacks with your Rage when you gain rage for the first time each round. Finally a fitting option for rage builds.

  • Throwing Star - Bandit - Attacks with a flurry of damage each turn you manage to avoid all damage.

  • Staff of Power - Elementalist - Buffs all your elemental sides whenever you use a Ultimate spell side.

• You can now see your current difficulty during your run. Click on it to show an overview of all active modifiers.

Changes

• Shop Rebalance

  • Prices were slightly increased, because gold was a little easy to come by.

  • Shop now offers 1 rare item and 2 common items (instead of 3 common items). The rare item is quite expensive but this will allow you find cool build defining items more often.

• Morning Star starting weapon damage reduced by 1.

• Silver Buckler is now rare.

Fixes

• Fixed an issue where in some instances achievements would not unlock because of a demo save game. The game will now check on start and reward all achievements which should be unlocked.

• Items are now scaled down when reaching a certain amount of items. This should make sure that they don't block half screen during crazy runs.

• Fixed more spelling mistakes.

Like always let me know what you think. You can find the discord here.

Dave

Hey everyone,

I was hoping the next update would be the first balancing patch but I was made aware of a pretty critical bug. So I decided to quickly release a hotfix first and I hope the first balance patch will be ready next week.

Fixes

• Fixed critical bug that allowed inactive dice to be used repeatedly.

• Fixed description for royal cloak.

• Fixed issue were a saved run could not be loaded correctly.

Thank you again for all the bug reports and feedback.

Dave

Hey everyone,

just some hotfixes for hopefully most of the bigger problems left.

Fixes

• Fixed more achievement problems. Now hopefully all achievements should trigger correctly.

• Fixed some weapons triggering hit effects when they should not.

• Fixed arcane sides not being buffed by spellpower.

• Fixed Orcs sometimes becoming immune to poison after healing.

• Effects that reactivate all dice should be fixed and can now be used just by targeting yourself.

• Fixed some cases where dice were stuck in hand.

• Fixed gamespeed setting not saving correctly.

• Fixed some more typos.

Thank you again for all the bug reports. They are much appreciated and I am doing my best fixing everything as fast as possible.

Dave

Hey everyone,

quick hotfix again + Cloud save support. Thank you again for the bug reports. Keep them coming.

Important: Cloud Saves

Cloud saves are now enabled. To make sure your save uploads correctly please start the game with your save file first that you want to keep.

If you want to be extra safe, you can make a copy of the save file here :

C:\\Users\\\\AppData\\LocalLow\\David Skoko\\DiceCardHeroes

If there are any issues with your saves you can find me on Discord or email me here : [email protected]

Fixes & Changes

• Fixed several achievements not unlocking correctly. Especially the gold and dice roll achievements for the bandit should be working correctly now.

• Changed the elementalist achievement Soul Magic. It now requires taking damage 5 times from your own spells because of missing mana. This is more thematically fitting and should also be much more easily unlockable.

• Changed the Quiver to only work once per round.

• The first 2 sides of the Change of Plan dice should now correctly discard any unused dice and can now be used like a buff instead of dragging onto another dice.

• fixed more minor spelling mistakes

Thank you for your support.

Dave

Hey everyone,

just quick hotfix to address some first bugs. Thank your very much for all the bug reporting. Keep them coming.

• added some missing tooltips

• fixed some items applying dodge to early, so it would fade immediately (thorn grass and elven boots)

• fixed shadow cloak not buffing you when you dodged.

• doubling the freeze effect should now correctly trigger freeze immediately as well.

• fixed some dice not working correctly with the quick rune.

• fixed some spelling mistakes.

• fixed some panels wrongfully popping up after run is complete.

I also created a beta update branch. There I will try to upload fixes, and patches in advance but no that guarantee everything works there :D

Thank you again and I hope you enjoy Dice Card Heroes.

Dave

Hey everyone,

Dice Card Heroes is out now. My name is Dave and I solo developed this game for almost 2 years. It took much longer than I initially anticipated but I managed and I am pretty proud of how it turned out. I would be eternally grateful if you give my little game a chance. Take a look:

So what is this game about:

It's a dice deckbuilder. You choose a hero. Build your deck of dice, fight monsters, earn powerful items and ultimately try to slay the dragon at the end of the dungeon.

Main Features

• 3 heroes with their own dice, abilities and starting weapons

• Over 250 unique dice.

• 3 chapters, each with unique combat encounters and the dragon waiting at the end.

• Over 100 different items.

• Over 30 different weapons.

• Over 30 runes to upgrade your dice with.

Try the demo

I also updated the demo if you want to try it first. The demo features the knight and the first 2 chapters.

Your feedback

I am looking forward to your reviews and I hope you have fun with my game. But I would love feedback of any kind, feel free to post in the steam discussion or join the Discord if you want to find me directly.

Thank you!

Hey everyone, Dice Card Heroes is almost ready but first comes steam next fest. To prepare I have a big demo update ready.

DEMO UPDATE

This will bring the demo closer to the current development state, here is some of the stuff you can expect in this update.

• Damage and Health preview

  • In combat you will now see the damage you will receive from the enemies and your own dice will preview how much damage they deal to a monster.

• New Content

  • This update features new items, new dice and more events.

• Graphical Update

  • Improved menu screens, icons and even some new enemy sprites.

• Balancing

  • Almost everything has been rebalanced at least a little bit. Most dice, enemies, and items were changed based on feedback.

• Bugs, fixes and performance

  • A huge amount bugs have been fixed and the performance has improved quite a bit in many areas.

NEXT FEST & RELEASE

Dice Card Heroes will participate in Steam Next Fest which is live from February 23rd until March 2nd.

Everything should be set for the full version to release not too long after but more info on that soon.

Feel free to join the Discord to contact me, report some bugs or just talk about the game.

Hey everybody,

this patch adds the first version of a tutorial and includes some UI polishing and bugfixes.

Added

• Dynamic tutorial that should explains most screen when showing up the first time, (can be reset in gameplay options)

• Keywords in dice tooltips should be highlighted now.

Fixes and Polish

• fixed sometimes dice becoming transparent before rolling.

• fixed wrong keyword tooltips for hero skills.

• replaced uneven dice texture.

• fixed reroll button greying out for dice that automatically reroll.

• fixed some missing keyword explanation for effects not showing up.

• fixed sometimes a rune being applied twice.

• fixed some item animation being stuck in a weird state.

Thank you very much for playing the demo and keep the feedback coming.

Hey everybody,

This is just some quick but important fixes.

Fixes

• Fixed savegame not saving correctly in some instances

• Improved tooltip placement for keyword descriptions

• Fixed map overlapping in the "Fight against Death" event

• Added experimental fix for screen resolutions options not appearing for some people

Thanks for all the feedback.

Hey everybody,

The demo for Dice Card Heroes is live now. Thanks for all feedback during the playtest. While the playtest will be closed for now, I am considering opening it again to test more content or new features not present in the demo.

Find the demo here:

Content

This demo includes:

• 1 playable Hero with over 50 unique dice and unlockable starting skills.

• 2 chapters with many unique combat encounters, events and bosses.

• 50 items to build synergies with.

• over 10 weapons to build your deck around.

I hope you enjoy the demo and I am looking forward to hearing your feedback.

You can you also find me here:

• X

• Bluesky

Or join the Discord server here:

• Discord

Hey everybody,

The playtest for Dice Card Heroes is live now. If you enjoy deckbuilders and dice you might want to take a look at this.

How to join the playtest

• Just visit the steam page https://store.steampowered.com/app/3930110/Dice_Card_Heroes/

• Click the "Request Access" button. You will gain access immediately.

• If you like what you see, wishlisting is greatly appreciated.

Feedback

• If you have feedback of any kind, you can use the ingame report button.

• You can also leave your feedback in the steam discussions.

• Or if you want to give feedback directly you can join the discord here https://discord.gg/5sbcWqYwZV. I am also looking for people who would want to test a more complete version of the game.

Content

This playtest will feature roughly feature the same content as the planned upcoming demo.

This includes:

• 1 playable Hero with over 50 unique dice and unlockable starting skills.

• 2 chapters with many unique combat encounters, events and bosses.

• 50 items to build synergies with.

• over 10 weapons to build your deck around.

I hope you enjoy the playtest and I am looking forward to hearing from you.

You can also find me here:

X - https://x.com/DiceCardHeroes

Bluesky - https://bsky.app/profile/dicecardheroes.bsky.social