Yacht Rocks 1.1

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Yacht Rocks 1.1

by 2bitchuck

Cart #yachtrocks-1 | 2023-04-29 | Code ▽ | Embed ▽ | License: CC4-BY-NC-SA

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Revision History

• 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.

• 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.

Pretty fun

@Andrew967 Thank you, appreciate it!

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 :).

@2bitchuck Ah, that's great! Thank you for pointing that out.