Hey all! Thanks for joining the playtest for DiceVaders.

It has been a huge success for us, with over 25,000 hours played already! It's been awesome seeing how many people are into this vision for the game, and we've also gathered some very useful feedback from those who are more critical of it!

The game and playtime statistics are giving us very strong signals, so we will continue with our vision and spend more time to improve the game based on the feedback!

We will have a demo in the upcoming next fest! It won't have more content than the current playtest, but it will have more finalized art, polished visuals, and better on-boarding. This will introduce a lot of new players to the game, so although it's not anything new, it will still be super important for us!

The DEMO will also be fully localized into Simplified Chinese, French, and Japanese!

IMPORTANTLY for anyone who wants to keep playing, we will be removing pausing Steam Playtest app and moving into a playtest branch on the Demo app once the demo is live.

You'll see your "playtest access revoked", but if you want to keep playing, join our discord and we will share a code for you to join the playtest branch! Progress will be saved.

This update will delete any in-progress runs. We're prepping for the next fest demo, so lots of work on better on-boarding, visuals, menus, quality of life features.

- Added the Hex Prince, The Hive's commander

- Added 13 new Warped units, which is all of the remaining ones!

- New "Info Display" when you press TAB or in the pause menu

- New Settings Menu, Compendium, Pause Menu

- Added Save Profiles (replay the tutorial by making a new profile)

- Reworked Vengoid

- Reworked Slusho-Max

- Reworked Eldritch Tome

- Reworked Bone Eater

- Reworked Super Migo

- Added a Rare "Gain +3 Budge"

- Added a bunch of new tutorial tips

- New main menu music (that i'm looping for the encoutner) (more coming soon!)

- Give XP spell now highlights artifacts that would level up

- Budge / Chronos become red when there are none left

- Added icon for when an entity is fully charged

- Cramped Grid no longer spawns universe or Hexafoil powers

- Improved visuals across the board, more animations, more art, etc

- Game now deletes existing runs on major updates that would break backwards compatibility

- Fixed Warped Rusher doubling strength on respawns

- Fixed overlapping Tooltip bugs in character selection

- Tooltips now update live whenever something changes

- Cursed Items price is now red and shake when you can't buy them

- Fixed Autoroller's minidice showing +1 DicePower

- Added all systems for localization

- Added scaling icon for budge / chrono

- Tweaked description of several items

- Fixed undoing budges being weird when doing it on pilot dice

- Fix Cyclotron softlock

- White Space -> Rare

- Buffed Warped Rusher, now has +1 Repeat.

- Probably some stuff i forgot!

If you have any more questions feel free to ask in the comments below or on our Discord Server!

We hope you enjoy!

Heya everyone! Hope you're doing well in this new year!

We're happy to announce that the playtest for DiceVaders is live now!

Just like in StarVaders, each character will have their own unique abilities and unique artifacts that only they can find during the run. You'll be able to unlock over 10 commanders, each one based on the bosses from StarVaders!

In this game, you'll be building an army of (very familiar) alien invaders, using positional and archetype synergies to create powerful combos and gain high scores.

If you've played games like Luck be a Landlord, Nubby's Number Factory, or Ballionaire, this game is very similar! Though with a much stronger focus on strategy.

As you play and get stronger, you will soon encounter Earth's most powerful protectors. The pilots! They each come with debilitating abilities that you will need to play around... Don't let them stop you!

If you sign up from the "Playtest" button on the DiceVaders steam page, you should be able to get access to the open beta directly!

This is a beta, which means there will be bugs and there are still missing content, art, balance, polish, etc!

Although there's many things missing that we are aware of, we still appreciate any feedback you have, even though it may be obvious. With that in mind, let me explain some of what is currently inside of the playtest, and some of what is still missing!

Where can I give feedback / submit bug reports?

• If you have any feedback, the best way to let us know is through our DISCORD SERVER. Otherwise, feel free to use the Steam Discussion forums as well.

• If you have any bugs to report, please use the in-game F2 Bug Report form. Doing that will send your save files to us so that we can reproduce the exact bug easily!

How long will the playtest period last?

• We will likely continue beta testing until full release, but at some point in February, when we release the public demo, the access to the playtest will become limited to within our discord server / or with a secret code.

• So join our server if you wanna stay in the beta!

Can I stream / make videos on the playtest?

• The beta is not a secret, but it is still at an early stage, so we would prefer if content creators wait until the public demo (in February) to stream and/or create content for the game.

Is there a roadmap? How often do you update things?

• It turns out I'm really bad at planning what gets done next, like some sort of chaotic aquatic creature, I just kinda follow my whims and what I feel like at the moment, so there's no set schedule or anything.

• We'll try to do weekly updates but no promises!

Will the game be localized in X/Y/Z language?

• The playtest won't be localized, but we want to localize the demo and the full game.

• For this game we wanna take a more hands on approach on the localization process, so we're working with specific people, some of them members of our community, to help localize the game into each language. If you may be interested in helping out, please let us know!

If you have any more questions feel free to ask in the comments below or on our Discord Server!

We hope you enjoy!