In this 48h Game Jam we created this unique resource management game with dice.
We used the Lotus Blossom technique for brainstorming ideas, and it worked wonders, we came up with quite a few game ideas and we ended up settling on this unusual concept because it seemed the one we could shape into a better experience in just 48 hours.
The biggest design challenges we faced were making the players understand the game completely and balancing everything so the game could be beaten most of the time (taking into account dice variance) without forcing a single strategy as the solution.
We made this little tutorial and these hover information panels to help the players know how the game works, and through iteration we managed to balance the game pretty well considering the time constraint.
