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No Honest Dice
A grimy tavern dice roguelite about risking your bones, cheating the house, and trying to clear your debt before luck runs out.
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I’m Arion—a solo developer, writer, and determined jack of all trades learning game development from the ground up. Snailspell Studios is where I share the games, stories, animation, experiments, and hard-earned lessons I pick up along the way.
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A single-player card RPG inspired by classic Game Boy Color adventures. Build a deck, explore grounded towns, and grow into your role as a Keeper.
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Forward System
A fast, cinematic tabletop RPG built around one promise: every Test moves the story forward. The rules and character options are being written, tested, and refined.
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A dark tavern dice roguelite
NO
HONEST
DICE
“The house plays dirty. So should you.”
Roll cursed bones, bank ugly scores, cheat across the table, and crawl out from under a debt that never should have been yours. Every opponent has an angle. Every charm changes the odds. The house is watching.
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Push your luck
Keep rolling to build a monster bank—or bust and leave the table with nothing but regret.
02
Cheat carefully
Dirty tricks can rescue a bad hand, but every suspicious move brings the House Eyes closer.
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Build a crooked run
Collect charms, bend familiar dice rules, and find combinations that turn bad luck into profit.
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Meet worse people
Face a tavern full of low-life gamblers, strange regulars, and bosses with rules of their own.
The rhythm of a run
Four beats.
One bad idea.
Roll
Throw the bones and choose what scores.
→Risk
Bank it—or reach for a bigger hand.
→Cheat
Tilt the odds before the house catches on.
→Pay
Clear the table, survive the tab, go again.
Behind the velvet
The tavern
is taking shape.
Built for crisp 640 × 360 pixel presentation, with cursed casino UI, grimy characters, and just enough candlelight to see how bad your odds are.
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The active buildA real table from the current game
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The rat’s backroomCharms sold from under the floorboards
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Crooked companyA few faces waiting across the table
Development roadmap
Built one
honest step
at a time.
No fake finish line. No mysterious “soon.” Here’s where the game actually stands.
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Now
The game works
Core runs, four escalating tabs, charm builds, cheating, opponents, bosses, shops, progression, and active playtesting.2
Next
Make it filthy
Final UI passes, missing charm and opponent art, stronger animation, sharper sound design, and more balance testing.3
Later
Open the tavern
A public demo, Steam page, trailers, creator media, and the final road toward launch.SOLO, NOT
SILENT
SILENT
About Snailspell
Learning in public.
Making anyway.
I came into this with writing experience, a stubborn creative streak, and very few of the technical skills game development asks for.
That’s the point of Snailspell Studios: to share the climb—not just the polished ending. Every bug fixed, sprite redrawn, rule rewritten, and strange new idea becomes part of the trail.
Solo developmentWritingPixel artAnimationConstant learning
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