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In this deckbuilding roguelike, open portals to other realms and roll dice to defeat the enemies within. Discover devastating artefact combinations and upgrade your dice endlessly to roll crazy high numbers. Unlock hidden dice bags, each with their own unique twist to become a dice rolling god.

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Hexroll Has Hit a Major Development Milestone

Aug 7, 2025

Hexroll has been in development for a few months now, but I'm proud to say that I'm finally confident in the direction it is going, both visually and mechanically.

I have been gathering feedback and doing some gameplay tests and want to continue to work towards a game that you all love as much as I do.

New Visuals

Ok this has been the thing I am most excited about. You've probably noticed that Hexroll looks completely different to it's other event posts. I wanted to take Hexroll in a direction that put more focus on the portal as a centrepiece, and I wanted to make every UI element as diegetic as possible so naturally there's a few more gadgets you can interact with.

The Artefact Shelf

My god do I love the artefact shelf. While the artefacts themselves are pending a visual rework, their place in the scene now feels thematic and awesome. I just love the idea of being a wizard or something and collecting little quirky trinkets on your shelf.

Once the artefacts have been reworked, they should fit into the scene a lot better, and they will look like they're actually sitting on the shelf instead of awkwardly floating on top of it like they do currently.

Reroll Fountain

This huge stone bowl in the corner shows how many rerolls you have remaining in the form of floating d20s. It can be hovered to tell you how many rerolls you have left if you don't want to keep counting them all.

The Dice Bag

Hung up just to the right of the portal, you can now click on it to see what dice you currently have.

This UI has also been reworked to be split into 2 sections so you now explicitly know what is in your bag, hand, or discard pile at all times so you can plan your rolls accordingly.

The Damage Scroll

I love tapestries, they're so cool. I'm not gonna lie I really love the theme of this and it might be one of my favourite UI elements because of how well it fits into the scene. Anyways, it serves a purpose besides being pretty, it tallies up the damage total of your rolled dice so you don't have to do any quick math.

The Collection Log

The UI is pending for this as it's quite a big undertaking, but trust me that it's going to be awesome.

The collection log is basically a central location for tracking just about everything:

Artefacts collected
Enchantments collected
Enemies defeated
Dice bags unlocked
Portals entered
Dice collected
Any hopefully a bunch more!

Gameplay Elements

I haven't just been drawing though, I promise. A big goal for me at the moment is content expansion so I've been laying the foundations for more interesting and tactical combats, and trying to push more towards allowing players to theorycraft builds.

Enemy Abilities

Yeah that's right, enemies now have abilities. I have been trying to design the enemies around the realms that they come from within the portal. For example the swamp realm has a chance to offer an enemy which can drop mud on one of your dice, disabling it for that round.

One thing that I am trying to be mindful of when designing enemies is the inevitable meta that players will come up with. By all means lean heavily into rolling a million D4 dice for death by a thousand cuts, but just be warned that there might be an enemy which gains block or damage each time you roll a D4.

Anyways there's a ton more to cover but I just wanted to update you guys with the main bits as I haven't for a while. The game is very much alive and development is picking up speed now as I work towards a demo.
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The Rifts Have Opened!

Feb 13, 2025

Hey everyone, super excited to show what I have been working on the last couple weeks!

Visual Overhaul

We have had a lot of visual changes this time around, with an entirely new background to fit the theme and styling of the rest of Hexroll.

Portals

The gameplay loop now supports a great deal more player agency than before. Now before combat, the doors will open and you will be given an option between two realms to open a portal to. Each realm has a set of unique abilities that can apply to enemies, allowing you to be a bit more strategic with the battles you pick.

Otherworldly Encounters

Scenery and enemies will change upon opening a portal. For now the enemy is the only thing that changes, but in future I would like the whole room to change with themed interactables Hearthstone board style!

Don't forget to wishlist if you haven't already and tell your friends about my upcoming dicebuilding roguelike!

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Store Revamp and visual changes!

Jan 23, 2025

Hello people, welcome to my first update announcement! I wanted to kick this off with a set of quite big changes to the core gameplay loop of Hexroll.

Enchantments

First off we now have a set of enchantments that you can purchase in the shop which will give powerful boosts to your dice when you roll them. For now we only have a couple, but the framework is there for a LOT of upcoming expansion!

Flame Enchantments - Adds extra damage behind your dice rolls. Can be added to both attack, and block dice so you can dish out the damage while staying protected.
Shield Enchantment - Adds a bit of defence to your rolls. Perfect for a little protection while you destroy the enemy healthbar.

Enchantments can be applied to dice as many times as you want and the visuals will change to showcase all effects active on each dice. Can combo well off artefacts which activate when dealing damage or blocking, and can give you MASSIVE value with roll doubling artefacts!

Readability

With all these visual effects going on it's hard to keep track of what's what. To help this I gave the dice a card-styled visual which features a little gem in the corner to tell you what the base dice type is (attack, or block.) This can be expanded upon in the future to show icons of the different enchantments on the dice, and descriptions of these icons will be shown on the hover tooltip, Hearthstone style.

Dice Bag Display

Using the bottom right button, you can now view the contents of your dice bag! The UI will fill out with all the dice in your bag and their enchantments, and be greyed out if they are in your hand or the discard pile. Planning out a move that requires a specific die? Check out the dice bag menu to see if you might draw it next turn!

I think that just about does it for the first update. I know it isn't much but the gameplay loop is coming together well, and a super early demo might be a possibility soon! Thanks for reading the update, I hope you guys enjoy the game when it comes out. Feel free to contact me with any changes and suggestions as I want to hear what players would like to see happen with Hexroll.

Pleas drop a wishlist if you haven't already and spread the word of this exciting upcoming deckbuilding roguelike!

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