samoatesgames 2014-04-28 09:49
A good remake of a classic game style. I've always loved mine sweep and this does it justice.
Great work.
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD29 → Cavernsweeper
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Innovation | 51 | 4.05 | ||
| Overall | 129 | 3.73 | ||
| Fun | 202 | 3.50 | ||
| Theme | 308 | 3.55 | ||
| Audio | 595 | 2.69 | ||
| Graphics | 654 | 3.00 | ||
| Coolness | 1773 | 36 |
A good remake of a classic game style. I've always loved mine sweep and this does it justice.
Great work.
Really liked this idea, although I've yet to actually complete it. The only real criticism would be that it takes forever to get anywhere since you have to 'solve' the board over and over to get the arrows you need. Also I think there's a bug in how the tiles are revealed where not all empty tiles in a group are revealed in one go. Great game overall though.
I think this is a really good concept. Also a very extension of this classic :) The first level needs to be a bit easier. Some hidden tiles with bonus/cheats had been nice to have.
Love the concept! Maybe it's just a tat too difficult, but great work!
Thought it was pretty interesting. I like the graphics and the idea of the control tiles!
"almost-excruciatingly difficult" ALMOST?! Yeah, right, I gave up after three tries, those command were not on my side (Only up and down when trying to navigate the 1-tile tall corridors? Thanks!). The planning for this must've gone something like "Hey, you know how annoying those 1st turn instant losses are in minesweeper? Let's make that into a game!".
I think it has potential, but it's just too frustrating as it is. And yeah, the automatic tile-reveal isn't working correctly.
Anssi@MooseflyGames
Really nice idea, I like it!
A couple things, though:
First off, I think this game REALLY needs the classic minesweeper 1st click invincibility. During one of my plays, I got most of the way through the maze, got a new board, and proceeded to smack my face into the wall on the first click, and that's pretty frustrating because I didn't do anything wrong, yet I'm being punished for it.
Second, I think that the maze was a little difficult/repetitive. Single wide segments are good, but I think the ones you had were just a tad too long. I think you need to occasionally give the player a little bit of breathing room to relax and be able to make a mistake. I felt the maze was a little repetitive in the fact that I felt like I always needed a left arrow. Most of the maze involves going left. On the other hand, I never cared about right arrows. They were never useful. Now, they wouldn't kill me that often, but they would still set me back a bit. I think a more well-rounded maze would have alleviated that symptom a bit.
Also, I think what would have been nice is if revealing all the green squares activated a button that would give you a new board, so I could still have the option of clicking any remaining arrows I had and wanted you use. Not too big a deal, but would have been nice.
Overall, pretty nice game. I think it just falls short in a couple areas that make it more frustrating than it should be, but they still could be fixed to make this a more enjoyable game.
The rant may sound like I'm hating on your game, but it just makes me kind of sad when a nice idea ends up being blocked by a couple shortcomings.
Great job!
This was pretty awesome. I think it has a lot of potential.
One idea that came to mind to reduce the difficulty and give some more control to the player is two have two different bottom grids. It was frustrating when I had cleared out the entire grid without finding the direction I needed, only to be left with a fully reset grid and a random chance of failing. Being able to choose when to clear out and reset one grid, while keeping the safer partially known grid in reserve, would help. Or perhaps a way to pick up or otherwise save control tiles across a reset.
Combined with that, have some more safe spots in the upper level, so the trick is to reach a safe spot before having to reset the grid, or else be stuck taking a gamble.
A visual nitpick was that I really wished there was something visible that immediately indicated how many adjacent controls tiles there were for any given tile, regardless of direction. Sort of like how minesweeper used colors (but yeah, colorblind issues would pop up). Granted, not having this only meant I had to do simplistic adding of single digit numbers in my head, but I'm lazy! :-)
nice idea but a completely random blank tile wall of death clicking got me grr!
Hi all! Thanks for the great comments.
It's true, I'd be the first to admit the game's not perfect. I have a list about as long as my arm of things that need fixing but I just ran out of time in the compo. ;)
I'm going to come back to it when I've got some spare time, so if you're interested in updates follow me on Twitter (@davecheesefish) or check my website (davecheesefish.com) for new versions and all my other games! </shameless plug>