Revision History
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1.1 (2023-04-29)
Fixed bug that caused 1-3-3-4-6 and 1-3-4-4-6 to resolve as small sraight.
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1.0 (2022-07-17)
Initial release
Synopsis
Yacht Rocks is a single player 64x64 PICO-8 version of the dice game Yacht (not the brand name game, please don't come at me, Hasbro!). You roll 5 dice (up to 3 rolls per turn) and try to score the most points possible in all the categories. Surely everyone's played this game in some form, right? It's a classic!
I wrote this because it's a favorite activity of my sister & I when we're together. We get very competitive about it! I only see her every few years or so & I miss her a lot between those times. I thought this would be fun for her to play & screenshot for me while we're apart so we could compete between visits :).
Controls
Game Screen
- Z: roll the dice
- X: lock a die (locked dice are not rolled)
- Left/Right arrow: move lock selector between individual dice
- Up arrow: view the score sheet (press again to return to the game screen)
- Down arrow: score the current set of rolled dice immediately
Score Screen
- Z: score the currently selected category
- X: view the dice being scored (press again to return to the score sheet)
- Left/Right arrow: switch between top and bottom score sheet sections
- Up/Down arrow: move category selector
Strategy!
- There's a 35 point bonus for scoring 63 or higher on the top section. I recommend always targeting that bonus for max scoring. For example, if you roll four 6s, it's tempting to score that on Quad, but I would always choose to score that on 6s if available.
- Every Yacht after the first scores a 100 point bonus. If you've gotten & scored a Yacht and then roll another, you can score that anywhere on the bottom section (including the two straights!) or on the top section for the matching number.
- Use the up arrow to check the score sheet often! I tend to forget sometimes that I've already scored something and then end up going for things I don't need, which leaves me with nowhere to put them.
Credits
- All code, sounds & graphics by yours truly
- Title screen font is the 5x6 font by our very own @zep, found here: https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=32877
- Opening theme is a riff on "Sailing" by Christopher Cross, the platonic ideal song of the yacht rock genre.
Thanks for sharing this! It's fun to shake the cup! :D
I would love to see a preview of the points that the dice would score in the different categories (I have a hard time remembering some of them) - although I understand that knowing those is part of the challenge (like knowing your hand in Poker). :P
I'd also love to be able to re-view the dice after the last roll, because I forget easily. XD
@pdog Thanks for playing! The score preview is a nice idea, I think I can probably squeeze that in with an update. But you can actually re-view the dice from the score sheet by pressing X. I didn't have space to add that instruction on the screen, so I know it's not obvious without reading my wall of text in this post :).
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