Hey all! This past week I've been setting up two new languages for the game, revamping the Backup system, and fixing a ton of stuff. Hope you enjoy everything! :) Even though I've been working to add Korean and Turkish, only the latter is included in this patch. Korean is coming in the next few days, as it still needs a bit more polish, but I wanted to release this update either way :)

Also, quick note on the German translation, I've noticed a few people expressing their feedback on the translation, as it seemingly is not very accurate in some points. Of course I don't speak German myself so I can't know for sure, but it seems like a major point of discussion, so we'll definitely find a way to fix that soon, for sure!

- Added Turkish language

- Reworked how save backups are stored, now stores 1 each day, up to 5 (per profile, so 15 in total)

- Added a way to restore backup data for Xbox Game Pass. Check out a little tutorial for both GP and Steam at the bottom of this changelog! (Though some users that reported data loss on Game Pass have discovered that it was a sync problem with their accounts and they managed to get it back by relogging. Please make sure it's not that before messing with save file backups, to avoid accidentally overwriting anything)

(ONLY AVALIABLE ON BETA BRANCH FOR NOW, ACCESSED WITH THE PASSWORD ''diceamillionbossreroll" )

- First reroll is now free, but ups the value of of every future round after (similar to how Power IV does)

I haven't had the time to work much on this this past week, but it'll be my priority next update, let me know your thoughts as always!

- Rubik's Cube now gets the sum of all extra value gotten by its pieces during a roll (so if 4 of its pieces gain +5 extra value, Rubik's will get 20 in total)

- Hermit's Stone now affects Pocket Pencil

- Cell Ring is now affected by the Double Rings effect

- Aquarium is now triggered before Vampire Die

- Marble's increased chance of appearing now caps out at 80%, making it possible to still find other dice on marble runs

- You can now use the spacebar to confirm the roll with the Manually confirm score option on

- Double Die's inner face is now affected by Angel Die, and also made it trigger later so it can benefit from Angel's value change

- Reduced area effect flickering when using the Photosensitive Mode

- During the ''I can't believe it's not a D6'' challenge, removing a Double Die now gives you a normal D6, instead of a Minidie

- During the ''I can't believe it's not a D6'' challenge, Hexagonal Ring now always gives you a ghost uncommon die, instead of a legendary one

- Tweaked a bit how the language menu looks to make room for more languages

- Tweaked some special characters like Ç to be more readable in some situations

- Fixed Bicolor Hand not being able to change parity on deactivated dice

- Fixed a bug that caused runs to be lost if you successfully beat Dice Rush in the last roll

- Fixed Electric Die area not being affected by Aura Ring

- Fixed Blackjack challenge sometimes not giving you the stamp upgrade menu

- Fixed Gilded Cell Ring not working properly

- Fixed a game freeze regarding the trade event and marbles

- Fixed a UI collision mismatch on the upgrade event

- Fixed animated dice not animating when rolling for rewards on the map

- Fixed selling a card counting as using a card for the stats menu

- Fixed a crash involving ring rooms and NaN score

- Fixed Anchor copies sometimes triggering their effects on the table despite not being their intended behaviour

- Fixed being able to use Lucky Ring's reroll button when paused

- Fixed being able to infinitely reroll end of round rewards with Lucky Ring after saving and loading

- Fixed occult dice counting as rare/legendary for some niche interactions

- Fixed a situation that allowed you to select any hand on the tutorial run (again lol)

- Fixed Bottle of Caps giving you the bottlecaps on some unintended situations

- Fixed a couple of UI problems on some languages

- Added a failsafe to avoid some crashes related to Spindown Die

- Fixed using a transform card on a selected Minidie causing the handsize counter to become negative

- Fixed a certain late game transformative die being able to transform story-related dice

- Fixed a UI problem on the boss performance screen

- Fixed various UI problems on the main menu

- Fixed a crash involving Glitched Die transforming another die into Alphabet Block

- Fixed stacked roll effects (time die, ice die, etc) not showing up their quantity in their description

- Fixed Casino Die not working properly with Equity Ring

- Fixed Die of Fortune giving you a marble if you had too many

- Fixed Ancient Die being able to give you unintended dice while playing as the Final Hand

- Fixed an exploit involving holding R on the map

- Fixed various Japanese font related issues

If your save file gets corrupted or just disappears completely, here's the way to restore it:

- Head up to the save file location (found in AppData > local > dice_a_million > default > backup)

- Here you can see your backups with their date on the file name, following this structure: ''data_\[profilenumber]_backup\[year]\[month]\[day].sav''

(you may see a_back/b_back etc files from a previous iteration of this system, just ignore and/or delete them)

- Take the most recent one (or whichever you want) and rename it to ''data_\[profilenumber].sav'', where \[profilenumber] is just the number corresponding to the profile you used to create that data. so it should end up looking as ''data_1.sav'', ''data_2.sav'' or ''data_3.sav''

- IF YOU'RE ON STEAM/ITCH: Just put the file on the ''default'' folder, replacing any other existing one and you should be good to go! (if it still doesn't work, try turning off Steam Cloud)

- IF YOU'RE ON GAME PASS: Exit the backup folder and inside ''default'' create a folder named ''restore'', put your data_X.sav there. Upon booting the game, it should load that up and replace your current cloud save file, as well as deleting the file you put in restore. (make a copy of it before doing so, just in case something fails!)

A year and a half ago I was coming up with an idea for a dice roguelike. Combining elements of games I love like Balatro, The Binding Of Isaac or Inscryption, I quickly made a fun prototype.

Fast forward to today... and Dice A Million has sold +45k copies in its first month.

Thank you all for changing my life and making it possible for me to make games ;)

So yeah, 45k copies sold is pretty crazy huh?! We're also almost at 700 reviews on Steam, and I have pushed +12 patches since release (that's almost 1 every 2 days!!)

Every single bad bug should have been fixed as of now, so there's only some balance left to do. I think most of the dice/rings are in pretty good shape now, just the bosses that clearly need some tweaking :)

Last week I pushed pretty big update including a boss reroll mechanic in a beta branch, and I'm still tweaking the feature as a lot of you weren't 100% on board with this interation. I'll definitely have some news on this on the following days!

Now, I know this is a game about numbers... but let's stop talking about them and let's see what have people been up to!!

roll by errickfoxy

Between lagging the fuck out of the game and breaking all of its little parts... I've seen some pretty cool plays around online!

The meta seems to be revolving around ET Die and Mono Token right now... which I felt were more on the weaker side when developing the game! That's a pretty beautiful thing about this game, it feels SUPER alive to me. Sometimes I get asked "countless how does this interaction go???" and I'm like dude I have no idea I've never tried it lol. Almost every element has a place in any sort of weird wacky build I didn't even think about, and I think that's awesome.

roll by crazyblade626

There's also an ongoing Youtube series by GothicLordUK that goes pretty deep into the secrets of the game, and I've been enjoying it quite a lot, so go check it out if you want some Dice A Million content before sleep!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fBTe-kp4uk

I also released the OST a few weeks ago, free to download on Bandcamp[countlessnights.bandcamp.com], and also avaliable to stream on Youtube, Spotify, Apple Music, and every single music platform you can imagine!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pejfVS-qvE

As well as putting dozens of hours into the game, some people have been creating some crazy content around it, so I wanted to feature some of it here!

These are some amazing character dice designs by kontayreal[bsky.app], they have a few more on progress you can check out on the discord server[discord.gg]. They've also made a few more artworks I've featured here before, go follow them they make awesome art!!

IRL Schrodinger's Die by Netoch

This is a screenshot from a modding tool Jibinsu has been developing for you to be able to add custom dice to the game very easily! It's still early but here's a quick test die they put together. It will have a custom graphic interface where you will be able to write dice descriptions, add sprites and even custom functionality. As the developer of the game... I gotta say I have no idea how this works, feels like dark magic to me lol. News on this will be shared on the modding channel over on the discord server[discord.gg], so be sure to join in you're interested in that :)

And lastly, quick shoutout to Vivian (@JADEDH0LL0WS), who's writing a pretty cool fanfiction based on the game's lore and characters... 👀

So... what now?

First thing I want to do is close the game post-launch cycle, that means finishing off the boss reroll feature and any other balance changes left to do. I think that should take 1-3 weeks.

After that we'll focus on bringing Dice A Million to consoles and mobile. Can't give an exact timeframe for that since it depends on other people, but I want it to be as fast as possible! Luckily, the game engine I use (Gamemaker) makes it pretty easy to port the game to other platforms, so it shouldn't take a long time :)

Bringing the game to consoles will be pretty straight forward, since controller support is already in. Mobile is where we'll face more trouble, since a lot of UI elements in the game are very small to navigate with a touchscreen (I didn't think the game would become that big when I first designed everything ok?!), but we'll for sure find a way :)

Follow me on Twitter[x.com] or Bluesky[bsky.app] to be up to date with these versions if you're interested!

So... what's AFTER that?!

After the game is out on consoles/mobile and stable and I get some very much needed rest over the summer... I'll maybe start cooking up Dice A Million 1.1.

I already have a clear idea of what this version would contain, as its main content is something I always had in mind, and once envisioned for 1.0 (even though it was unreasonable looking back now...)

That makes the update a whole lot easier to develop! Since I don't have to sit down and start brainstorming new crazy ideas onto a blank piece of paper.

Expect new dice and rings of course, new hand(s), new mechanics, new secrets, and a new ending.

Not sure when all of this will come out since my life has been and will be moving quite a bit this year, as you can imagine.

Besides... I also will be cooking something else... Which brings me to the next point...

Dice A Million has kickstarted my career and made me able to do videogames for a living, and I couldn't be more grateful for it. But, as you may know if you've read some of my posts before, I have other stuff in the videogame world that I want to do eventually.

Dice A Million was a compromise. A compromise between what I like and what the market likes. It ended up being something a lot more special and big than I've anticipated when I started development... But my heart's still aching for something else.

If you've dug around Dice A Million, you may have found some strange stuff, some stuff that seemingly has no explanation. You know what I'm talking about, right...?

I don't know when, but I know it'll be coming, and I cannot wait for you all to be able to see it.

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Til next month, keep on rolling ❤️