Dice Liar

Dice Liar is a game Golden Sea made for itself. Four strangers sit at a saloon table, each with a cup of dice, and in the middle lies a revolver that whoever loses the round has to pick up. It opens from a link, with no download and no app store. The team built it to find out how far a small crew working with AI tools can take a 3D game in the browser.

The characters came out of Meshy with a skeleton already attached. Everything they do after that is written in code: sitting, breathing, drawing on a cigarette, flinching at a shot, reaching for the gun. Automatic rigs are rarely accurate, so the positions of the mouth and temple are measured on each model's skin. That is why the cigarette stays on the lip and the barrel meets the head on four very different faces.

The rules follow Chinese Liar's Dice: ones count as any face unless someone calls No-Tai. The four opponents take different risks. One bluffs all the time, another only raises when the dice back it up. Every character has an English and a Vietnamese voice made with ElevenLabs, and so do the dice rattle, the cup slam, the table thump and the spin of the cylinder.

The saloon is dark and smoky but still has to run on an ordinary computer. Lighting was tuned by hand, resolution drops on slower machines and textures are compressed, which brought the download from about 110 MB to 16 MB. The trailer was captured from the game itself and edited in Remotion.