High Rollers by HardyTryer

You’re tied to a chair. You’re rolling at full speed. You’re shooting and gambling at the same time. Welcome to High Rollers. All in. No brakes. Pray for luck.
Controls:
A/D - strafe
Spacebar - jump
Q - spin
RMB - aim
LMB - shoot
| Link | https://siberiancyborgs.itch.io/high-rollers |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/59/high-rollers |
Ratings
| Overall | 6th | 4.48⭐ | 51🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 1th | 4.653⭐ | 51🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 18th | 4.33⭐ | 52🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 684th | 3.11⭐ | 52🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 161th | 4.25⭐ | 52🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 64th | 4.153⭐ | 51🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 68th | 4.022⭐ | 48🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 38th | 4.394⭐ | 49🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 7🗳️ | 14🗨️ |

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I would’ve liked a bit more guidance or tutorial at the beginning, since it’s not immediately clear what you’re supposed to do. But once you get into it, it becomes quite engaging.
The only thing that didn’t quite click for me personally is the visual style — it’s a bit subjective, of course, just not really my taste. But aside from that, the core gameplay is solid and enjoyable.
I could totally see a game like this doing really well on platforms like Roblox or similar — it has that kind of addictive, replayable feel that people would love.
Nice work overall, I had a good time playing it!
Pretty solid game here! I have two main pieces of feedback:
1: I would have liked a "tutorial" screen at the start just to show the controls and quickly explain the game mechanics. It took me longer than I'd care to admit to realize I had to hold both mouse buttons to shoot, an a little longer to even understand what shooting the other guys did. haha The instructions on screen are good, but the game moves so fast so quick I had no time to look to the corner of my screen to seem them, or to see my money of buffs either without worry of crashing while I looked away.
2: I would have liked the slots view to be easier to see. If I want to look at it then I have to look away from what's in front of me, it was also hard to see what had rolled and the cost for another roll because of that. Having that a little more forward, or even on screen in an easier to see place would help that.
Overall though really solid, fun graphics, simple but effective audio, interesting game play loop, and pretty polish all things considered. Nice work!
Best submission so far 🔥

Simple, but really cool art style, I like this kind of games)
(хорошая игра, мужики)
At first, I didn't understand what was going on, but then it turned out to be a casino! It's a really cool leveling concept that could be expanded to other games. This genre is unlikely to be successful on Steam unless it's VR, but the ideas are cool and worth pursuing.
The controls are solid - simple and easy to understand. Clear goal. Best part for me is how movement and camera turning feel super punchy but not nauseating.
Downgrade graphics and especially the explosions combined with the music are just pure bliss. Awesome job, cheers from Siberia ; )

It's fun! But I want a more complex gameplay, with a lot of rare upgrades and a lot of enemies. A good demo!!! Maybe a Roguelike improvement will make this game so cool!

There wasn’t enough onboarding at the beginning. I didn’t immediately realize that you can spin, and that it requires a certain number of coins. At first I just tried pressing Q and nothing happened 😅
It also took me a while to figure out the gates — I didn’t notice right away that you’re supposed to look at the emoji above them. Around my fourth run I finally understood how the game works and managed to reach 68k meters.
It felt pretty exciting at the start, but it got a bit boring fairly quickly. For the most part, I could already ignore almost any obstacles thanks to the upgraded jump. When you can jump four times in a row and launch yourself into the air, nothing really feels dangerous. You can even recover from falling off a cliff by jumping mid-air. Gates appear less and less frequently the further you go, and you can just jump your way to the right ones anyway. I even tried to intentionally die, but ended up just misusing my jump a few times in a row and still didn’t make it to a gate. By that point, though, I was already getting a bit tired of it.
I expected enemies to be able to shoot at me too, but they don’t. That would make things more interesting, though it would definitely need balancing.
On the plus side, besides the strong initial sense of momentum, I’d also highlight the interesting use of the spin mechanic in this genre. And it’s great that you managed to implement a progression system during a game jam)
I liked it - probably one of the best games in this jam. That said, I did not really catch the theme. I also do not have enough attention to keep track of what is happening in the slot machine.