And if you're the type to really worry, you think about those rolls and what they're going to mean-that seeps into both the gameplay and the story, this worry about what's going to happen next." Because-and you can make your own interpretation- is about how every decision is like making a roll of the dice. So narrative has been really therapeutic for me to work with. "Though, it'd be funny if you were standing by a door and you had to roll a five to go through the door and you just kept rolling a one," Lyngeled said, laughing.īut both Lyngeled and Redmalm reiterated that a sense of randomness permeates into the narrative of Lost in Random-even if you need a weighted die to sometimes proceed, the story will delve into the theme of how life is random. During certain points in Lost in Random's story, Even will have to roll a specific number in order to proceed to the next area or chapter-in those moments, you'll have the power to temporarily suspend the randomness of Lost in Random's world and roll the number you need to keep going. Interestingly, Lost in Random does incorporate the idea of weighted dice within the narrative. Go back there!' And so we want to balance that and make sure it's not too frustrating." But in Lost in Random, if you get hurt, Dicey always goes, 'Oh no, I got to go check on Even.' So if you've already played that card, he'll come to you while he's like, ready to blow up. As an example, we have this card, where Dicey becomes this living timebomb and then you can send him out. "I have fun failing in Baldur's Gate-that's an inspiration for me when it comes to trying to implement a fun sort of chaos in. "That said, what I really love about Baldur's Gate is the crazy chaos," Lost in Random game director and lead writer Olov Redmalm said. "The system that's built here doesn't really need that because of the way the system is built," Lyngeled said. When I made the comparison to Baldur's Gate 3 and that game's loaded dice system, he said that Lost in Random has nothing like that. When I pressed Lyngeled about just how random combat could be, he said that the game won't be so random that anything can happen, but added that there are no systems on the backend influencing the randomness to lean one way or the other in order to, as examples, make certain combat scenarios more challenging or increase the likelihood of drawing specific cards back-to-back. "The other random parts of combat-which is built into the system-is what kind of cards do you pull out of your deck?" Lyngeled said. The cards allow Even to unlock powerful abilities, like a magical bow or deadly bombs, with stronger abilities requiring you to roll higher numbers. The number he lands on will determine how many points you have to spend and each card has a corresponding number that dictates how much energy you'll need to play it. As you gather energy in the midst of a fight, you pull cards from your deck and when you're ready you can roll Dicey. This idea that Dicey gives Even power and agency in this world comes through most obviously in combat. When Even rolls him, she evokes something random (as there's no way to accurately predict how a die will land every time), and in doing so, she unlocks powerful magical abilities that make her a threat to those who would get in her way. It's here that Even meets Dicey, a sentient die. Even has a nightmare that Odd is in trouble and goes to help her, stumbling upon a dice-filled graveyard early on in her journey. You play as Even, whose older sister Odd is taken to live with The Queen after rolling a six. The Queen of Random is the most powerful being in the land because she possesses a die, which she rolls to decide the fates for every citizen once they come of age.
Lost in Random takes place in a world where the concept of randomness has power. Now Playing: Lost In Random Combat Trailer | EA Play Live 2021
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