About

It's the annual insect contest! Grab your dice and show em' who's the best beetle around!
Pixelated cover image with a Ladybug on the left and colorful dice on the right. The ladybug has a red cap that says "BUD" on it.

In Ladybud Roll you play as "Ladybud" a rad Ladybug with a baseball cap. You'll go up against 6 other insects, rolling and playing dice as your "Attack" and "Block". Between rounds you'll have a chance to pick up new dice, or destroy some for powerfull boons.

Screenshot of the game - there is the ladybud character, an enemy mantis, and 4 dice in the center of the screen.

Screen Reader Support

This game uses screen reader support native to the browser. While there are no native HTML elements in the game, there is an interactive canvas that will update any running screen readers when the game state update.

Controls and Configuration

Settings

The following can be pressed at any time to update how the game's visuals and audio.

  • Press 0 through 9 to adjust game volume.
  • Press M key to mute music.
  • Press F key to swap between the game and accessible fonts.
  • Press T key to disable animations.

Game Controls

  • Use Arrow Keys to move your selection between buttons and dice.
  • Use X key to confirm selections on most screens.
  • When selecting dice, use A to assign for attacking, D to assign for defending (block), and C to clear the selection

Screen Reader Specific Controls

  • Press R key to repeat any text that was just read
  • Press Z key to specifically repeat instructions
  • Press E key to hear the enemy stats and next actions
  • Press Q key to hear your own stats

Screenshot of the game, there are three sets of dice that the player can choose from, on the right there are some abilities for each colored die

Known Bugs

None so far, will update if any are discovered.

About this game

Ladybud Roll was created by Jesse Jurman, with art done by Ethan Jurman. Special thanks to Ethan Jurman, Tina Howard, and Elijah Hogge for playtesting, and Patrícia Mendes for UX and Accessibility consultation.

This game was created for the Games For Blind Gamers 4 game jam.

The game was built with the LÖVE / Love2d engine, and made accessible using the love-a11y-template (created for this project).

Music and Sound Effects were created by Jesse Jurman using Pico-8.

Color Palette is Lospec500 

This game uses the following fonts:

Updated 26 days ago
StatusReleased
PlatformsHTML5, Windows
AuthorsJRJurman, RedSquirrel93
Made withLÖVE
TagsLÖVE, Pixel Art, Singleplayer
Average sessionAbout a half-hour
AccessibilityBlind friendly

Download

Download
LadybudRoll-win32-x64-1.0.0.zip 123 MB

Development log

Comments

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This is a really fun entry and i really liked it a lot. The dice mechancis were relaly good and i found myself finding it made for great strategy. I think the music is fine, although i would like some more sound effects. I was able to make it to the ladybeetle, where i just had no chance. I got it down to 6 health, but it kept wearing me down and i couldn't get past it. I think it could need some balancing and improvements. Otherwise this is a really nice entry and i hope to see it continue being worked on. Also screen reader worked very well, i used nvda.