Dicing Knight Period is an RPG game

Role-playing game (video games)

Role-playing video games are a video game genre with origins in pen-and-paper role-playing games such as Dungeons & Dragons, using much of the same terminology, settings and game mechanics. The player in RPGs controls one character, or several adventuring party members, fulfilling one or many quests...

 for the Bandai

Bandai

is a Japanese toy making and video game company, as well as the producer of a large number of plastic model kits. It is the world's third-largest producer of toys . Some ex-Bandai group companies produce anime and tokusatsu programs...

 WonderSwan Color. It is also a roguelike

Roguelike

The roguelike is a sub-genre of role-playing video games, characterized by randomization for replayability, permanent death, and turn-based movement. Most roguelikes feature ASCII graphics, with newer ones increasingly offering tile-based graphics. Games are typically dungeon crawls, with many...

, as the dungeons can be randomly generated.

Dicing Knight Period was one of the last WonderSwan games to be released, in 2004, alongside Judgement Silversword, another winner in the WonderWitch

WonderWitch

The WonderWitch is an official hobbyist development kit for Bandai's WonderSwan console. It was available only by mail order to Japanese residents. Everything related to the WonderWitch was handled by Qute....

development contest. Due to their limited production numbers, both games are scarce and demand a high price on the collector's market.

The game makes use of all of the Wonderswan's buttons, with A and B allowing the player to use the sword and shield weapons at all times. In addition, the players can assign items to their inventory using the Y buttons, in the tradition of The Legend of Zelda: The Ocarina of Time.

There was also another version released called Dicing Knight Legion, only for the WonderWitch development system.