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Not your Average Mining Emulator

By ace

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness371
Theme5753.24
Humor6532.30
Overall7542.97
Mood7582.77
Fun7672.78
Audio9431.85
Graphics10562.37
Innovation10762.31

Comments

frankd0331 2014-04-28 02:57

I enjoyed it. I didn't figure out you could jump with space, until after I got stuck in a 1 block deep hole, for a while.
There's just something about games with resource collection that I like.

mess110 2014-04-28 08:41

gj

dreii 2014-04-28 09:03

program cant start because MSVCR120.dll is missing? aww :(

eldog 2014-04-28 09:11

I'm on Linux using the 64 bit version and getting a 3D playing card with a pineapple on it?

I AM CONFUSED.

thristhart 2014-04-28 09:17

High marks for sheer promise - this game really feels like something that could expand well post-compo. Just needs polish and features. I was surprised by that radial menu - very sleek.

ace 2014-04-28 09:25

@Dreii you need the Visual C++ 2013 redistributable, it's linked in the post.

@eldog That's just the intro screen, if it doesn't run through to the menu try skipping the intro with escape.
There's been a lot of issues apparently with my linux build, never got my hands on anyone willing to test it for me so I just know that it works for me on my Linux machines.

And thanks for the compliments/comments, I'm going to be trying to clean up the code and make it into a more feature complete game later on in the future.

manabreak 2014-04-28 10:04

Could have used some audio... Other than that, a really nice ultra-light-weight Terraria-esque sandbox. :)

theholychicken 2014-04-28 10:22

Nice bits of humor in there :D
The house wheel animation looks very nice.
I couldn't figure out how to dig though.

bvanschooten 2014-04-28 10:24

Looks good, pretty ambitious for a ld48 entry! It took me a while to figure out this game, and there are still things I don't understand. More instructions would help. Sometimes I can dig ore and sometimes I can't, is that a bug or a feature? The player floats through solid rock to ground level when I jump in a tunnel, I assume that's a bug.
I ran this on Linux 64bit, and it works except I don't hear any sound.

zorfmorf 2014-04-28 13:08

"Can you dig all the ores?" I don't know but I tried and only gave up after I cleared the first layer and realized how big the stone layer is :D

It's not possible to walk or fall out of the world, but if you build a ladder high enough, the game segfaults (at least under linux it does).

The controls for the menu took a little bit of getting used to and when jumping underground I sometimes bugged through the ceiling all the way up to the surface - which is very useful if you forgot to bring enough ladders (bulding a staircase takes very long). Was fun!

Was there some secret or ending if I had mined all the ores?

clavus 2014-04-28 20:27

It was ok. Too bad you didn't get more done in time. It does show what you were aiming for.

ron748_ 2014-04-30 09:48

People had problems with my game as well and I just included the dll files to the game folder. Then nobody has to install anything.

stepperz 2014-04-30 09:57

MSVCR120.dll error :(

ace 2014-05-01 10:58

Right, I reuploaded the build with MSVCR120.dll packaged. Not sure if that's all you need from the runtime though, but hopefully it'll be.

blahoink 2014-05-02 01:12

cant get it to run, dll problems

hnjslater 2014-05-08 22:32

Worked fine for me on Linux.x86 (ancient laptop) once I'd set my LD_LIBRARY_PATH correctly. What was there was really slick, I built a ladder and climbed nice and high but segfault city, population me.

ace 2014-05-09 10:57

Right, uploaded yet another build for Windows. This time with more DLLs included, should work better now.

bernhard 2014-05-10 14:41

Wish it was compiled with the XP compatible compiler setting and statically linked C++ runtime :(

zeppelincaptain 2014-05-15 19:04

Probably a better idea to package your game as a .zip instead of a .7z since not everyone has 7zip.

I couldn't seem to craft anything else than saplings or ladders, which made approaching the stone layer very daunting. Planted a nice forest though :D

vigrid 2014-05-19 01:17

I couldn't understand the controls and unfortunately had to give up on it. It looks like a compo version of Terraria, and I think it has potential.