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BIOMINT

By mrspeaker

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness360
Innovation963.58
Mood1053.33
Graphics2373.28
Overall2883.13
Audio3202.55
Fun3462.88
Theme4233.08
Humor4752.20

Comments

gre 2012-12-17 10:34

This is great concept!

Nice job for the map generation.

lidfrid 2012-12-17 10:43

The map generation is very cool,

I hope you will solve the submitting problem!

dek 2012-12-17 13:28

Nice map generation! Lovely sounds and atmosphere. Sadly I could not find any red minerals even after 5 minutes of gameplay :S

mrspeaker 2012-12-17 17:11

Thanks dek! (That's what the "scouts" are for - sprinkle them around until they change size - size indicates mineable goodness ;)

red-mike 2012-12-17 18:02

Somewhat odd instructions, but eventually figured it out. Interesting!

hardscore 2012-12-17 19:45

Very unique,I like it :)

lanoiadimuu 2012-12-17 19:56

I found lots of red stuff by just blowing up stuff at random positions without ever using scouts.
Even with bomb tool selected the Earth rotated when I clicked, this caused some bomb misplacements.
I actually blew up roughly 1/4 of the planet before getting bored, does the game have other levels or a win condition?

mrspeaker 2012-12-17 20:11

Mining is a strange game: The only winning move is not to play. Also, this is LD - so the things like "enemies" and "some kind of point" were excluded due to time constraints ;)

karsithe 2012-12-17 21:10

Nice! I wasted a lot of money on scouts until I figured how the work, but it's a cool idea.

bentog 2012-12-17 21:13

It's hard to understand, but it's fun. Great audio and mood!

loren 2012-12-17 21:24

Very cool, a nice unique game!

aa 2012-12-18 00:37

Love it.
Would love for the world itself to have depth ( really give the digging into it some impact - you can see these chunks ripped out of the earth ).

I'd also consider changing the colour of the minerals from red to gold. Red made me think I'd uncovered magma.

kwl_tw 2012-12-18 04:15

Cool!

mjcorm 2012-12-18 06:19

This has some great potential. Wonderful submission!

udrian 2012-12-18 13:25

This game have potentials if expanded on, lacks goal and content right now. I really like the x-com styled globe that you perform your operations on!

chainedlupine 2012-12-18 17:20

I agree with the red comment. I initially overlooked the minerals because I thought I had mined too far. :)

Like the atmosphere, very spacey and abstract.

cthu 2012-12-19 09:43

Didn't find any minerals, but I love how everything looks and the overall mood/ambiance.

tomk32 2012-12-19 10:08

four tries to understand later I made $37,000,000 and could go on like this. This is the stuff minecraft is missing. It's a game with potential.

niavlys 2012-12-20 01:51

Great idea, and it fits the theme perfectly! Map generation is great, but I wonder if it would be feasible to make it join on the sides, not to have this vertical separation (not sure if I'm saying it correctly ^^)
I'm having trouble to beat it though, but I'll keep trying. :)

kgs0142 2012-12-20 04:38

Good idea, very evil :p!

frederickk 2013-01-01 03:30

Map generation? Nice!