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Drum Hammer Dig

By trialbyfun

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Innovation1253.1030
Fun773.2330
Theme2382.0329
Graphics893.2730
Audio283.5330
Humor1482.4323
Overall803.2730
Community1112.8919
Coolness2041

Comments

bentosmile 2011-05-02 13:24

Oh my god :D SO CUTE!

eli 2011-05-02 17:42

GREAT concept, amazing graphics and sounds give a great feedback feel.

taybenlor 2011-05-03 03:31

Fun :) Liked the sounds. Is there more than one level?

zemmi 2011-05-03 20:01

Cool take on Minesweeper, I dig it. (HA!)
Have you played Zombie Minesweeper? It's another cool take on minesweeper.
http://www.kongregate.com/games/Frogtoss/zombie-minesweeper

cosr 2011-05-04 04:06

Both the graphics and sound were simple, but great.

trialbyfun 2011-05-04 08:42

Thanks for the comments guys!
taybenlor - hi i only had time to put together one level, so I switched up the scoring to encourage repeat play by being "score as much as you can before the time runs out". If i was to carry this on in the future i would definitely put in a lot more levels, and away points for catching the monsters.
Zemmi - I'd never seen that but it looks fantastic! wish I had made that instead now lol

winterblood 2011-05-04 14:14

Clever idea, delightfully cute. I'd have played a lot more of this if it had more levels!

jojo_2nd 2011-05-04 21:08

Really nice twist on minesweeper. Wonderful sound too. I can see many people losing hours to this, especially if the levels were procedurally generated.

sonnybone 2011-05-05 00:56

This is pretty fun but needs procedural levels to really take flight. Oh, and the theme isn't represented in the game, it seems.

I LOVE THE SFX!

the-jack 2011-05-05 03:43

This would have been perfect for a digging theme.

I loved the riff on Minesweeper. Very well done.

Also I know how difficult 2D is in Unity, but you pulled it off rather well. Good work!

matthias_zarzecki 2011-05-06 06:32

....wait a second... this is minesweeper! (and a good one indeed. There should be more usage of that idea)

it's cute and funny ("you totally died"), and I like the unique and bold color-scheme :-)

chrisp 2011-05-07 05:38

Great idea to mix Minesweeper with digging/exploration. Haven't seen that before, and it turns out that it works well! It does seem that digging any "1" tile leads to death though, which is unfortunate. I would have liked to see some more use of the actual Minesweeper mechanic - i.e. make it so that digging a tile adjacent to a monster doesn't kill you, but digging the monster does. And have more monsters. You'd then actually have to use Minesweeper logic to get the best score, which would have been neat. I'm not so sure that the ability to kill monsters would have been the right direction, as it would dilute the Minesweeper feel and turn it into more of an action game, which is less unique and IMO less interesting.

Excellent use of audio, graphics were quite decent. Use of theme was not so strong, unfortunately. Also it would have been great if you'd had time for procedural levels - I was kind of expecting them and was a little surprised when there was only one, pre-made level. Still, neat entry, good job!

rik 2011-05-07 11:39

Really cute, and I really adore the sound effects. I'm not a massive minesweeper fan, but it's much more fun having an avatar like this. Great colours too.

endurion 2011-05-08 09:03

Not bad at all :)

Cute concept and very polished surroundings. Well done!

Beowulf661 2011-05-08 18:15

That was very fun!

randomnine 2011-05-08 21:29

Neat, though with 0 = "dig here" and 1 = "don't dig here" it's pretty straightforward. And you can just learn the locations of the monsters to get a higher score, right? The level ought to be randomised.

nyaa 2011-05-24 00:23

Incredibly cute. I squeed.

jonbro 2011-08-25 12:03

very cool audio, I love it. Wish I had found this during the actual compo, rather than several months later.