Tales of the World: Dice Adventure
Gameplay. The game played as a roleplaying game and board game hybrid. The player rolled virtual dice to determine how much a character moves across the board. Through the course of traversing the board, the player could form parties with other characters, experience story events, and even participate in battles. As with all of the games in the "Tales of the World" subseries, the game was a crossover video game containing many characters from the main series of "Tales" video games. The characters were presented in a cutesy, "chibi" style, reminiscent of how "Final  Fantasy" characters were recreated for the Nintendo 3DS video game "Theatrhythm Final Fantasy". The game followed the free-to-play business model, where it allowed a player to play entirely for free, but with the option of buying in-game items with real-life money. The only requirement was to have, or sign up for, a Bandai Namco ID, to sign into the game. Additionally, Namco Bandai separately released snack food for purchase that contained serial codes for downloading additional content to the game. The game received special animation created by production studio A-1 Pictures, the same studio has made  videos for the "", "Valkyria Chronicles", and "The Idolmaster" series of video games and anime. Development. The game was first revealed in December 2011, both at the Jump Festa event, and in the respective issue of "Weekly Shōnen Jump". The game initially set towards a "Spring 2012" release window before ultimately being released on April 26, 2012. The game also offers Smartphone support.