![]() Once you’re done spending your mana, you can attack or hit a button to come back into real-time, and continue the fight using the cards you’ve summoned into existence. This frozen time allows you to plan, and is where the “turn-based” part comes in. These cards might give you a sword, or a bow and arrow, or even a bomb you can place then shoot to detonate. When you have rolled the dice, time freezes so you can pick the cards you want to play. As you progress you also collect cards and these have a mana value. When you roll Dicey, you’ll get a random number from 1 to 6 (since it’s a dice roll) which will give you that 1 to 6 in usable “mana” form. Your pal “Dicey” picks up this energy and stores it until you have enough to roll him. Playing as “Even” you only have a slingshot, which you can fire at glowing blue spots on your foes to make them drop energy. It’s sort of turn-based but also real-time and… I’m not helping the confusion, am I? Let’s break this down, then. Truth be told, this game could really use a demo for people to get the feel of the battles. But after playing it, I’m hooked on the world and its art, and that unique combat. After sitting through a presentation for the game, I still didn’t feel as though I had a handle on what was actually going on. Lost in Random (Image: EA, Zoink Games, 2021)Ĭonfused? Yeah, I don’t blame you. But no, while there are elements from games you’ve played before, the key component here is the titular “random” nature, and the fact you meet a friend early on who is an actual dice that rides on your back and gives you powers. ![]() Upon first glance you’d be forgiven for thinking it was a fairly standard action-adventure game with some hack ‘n’ slash elements, albeit one with a gorgeous art style. So let’s start with the most exciting aspect: combat. READ MORE: Meet the supernatural heroes of ‘Marvel’s Midnight Suns’.Now look, don’t get carried away by that statement, because I don’t want you thinking it’s some revolutionary experience, as such, only that there are elements within this game that I’ve never seen before. You can also activate the "Skip Empty Items" option to make sure that no empty element is selected in the output (an empty element is such an element that contains only the whitespace characters).You’ve never played anything quite like Lost in Random. In the options, you can also specify the exact number of items to be selected and choose whether to allow the same item to be selected more than once. Usually, it's a newline "\n" or a comma ",". As our program can be adapted to the input format of any list, you can specify which element separator is used in the original list. If it's a line, then they can be separated by a comma, period, space, or any other symbol. If it's a vertical column, then the items have to be delimited by the character "\n". For example, you can display the picked items in a vertical column or a horizontal line. If you're picking multiple items, then for your convenience, we've added an option to change how items get separated. ![]() ![]() If you input all the winning entries on the left, you can choose a winner easily and it will be shown on the right. You can even use this tool to pick winning entries. For example, you can pick a number from a list of numbers, or you can pick a string from a list of strings, or you can pick a name from a list of names. This tool randomly picks one or more items from the given items. ![]()
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