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Beneath the Surface, Drillsnake

By ioboi

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness371
Theme1943.68
Innovation3653.35
Graphics8592.68
Overall8842.85
Audio9281.90
Humor10011.75
Fun10582.39
Mood10942.29

Comments

hempuli 2014-04-28 11:09

A very interesting concept with nice graphics! When going right, I had to click a pipe twice to get it to turn. I would've loved to have some time-manipulation tools, such as pausing or speeding up the game.

ioboi 2014-04-28 11:21

Thanks :)
The game can be paused with space bar.

notnasiul 2014-04-28 15:14

So stressing if you build just a second drill! But it's a nice concept, I think you could improve this into a full fledged game. It reminds me of Mr. Driller. Sort of.

blan4 2014-04-28 15:24

Nice idea. But not very intuitive controls(change drill direction). Good job! Two drills it's very hard!!!

elefantopia 2014-04-28 20:50

Mining and building = fav themese, you have my votes, sir!

clavus 2014-04-28 20:50

Nice concept! Managing more than one drill is a bit hard though. Changing the drill direction could've been a bit easier.

kayz 2014-04-28 20:58

Nice, another game in Dart. And even without using any library.

Got to 518. Started with 2 drills, but lost one of them..

paperblurt 2014-04-29 06:52

Real fun and for a first Ludum Dare it's great work!

cmaster 2014-04-29 20:43

Works pretty well, if low on excitement.

whalebot 2014-04-29 21:06

I feel like the drill needs to be a bit faster for this to really be fun. Overall, cool idea for a concept, it was just a little slow game play. (Maybe I didn't use enough drills ;)

mnemusyne 2014-04-29 21:26

Interesting mechanics but the gameplay could be explored more.

plasterphantom 2014-04-30 19:47

This reminds me of Motherload :)

rujomarco 2014-05-01 01:29

original concept, i like the retro style of the design

atkinssj 2014-05-01 16:36

It's an interesting idea, but as others have said, if you have one drill the game is slow and quite easy, but with more than one it's chaos.

Certainly a good game for a first LD, though! :)

papygaragos 2014-05-01 17:57

Hey congrats on your first LD! That's a nice concept you got here (maybe not 'punchy' enough, but that's something you could work on next time)

With more variety you could have something great here.

thorig 2014-05-02 07:04

Interesting game. A fine entry for your first LD.

hybridmind 2014-05-04 18:41

Interesting mechanic. I don't think it is as fun as it probably could be with further work. I like the idea of being able to guide the drill, but it quickly becomes boring to wait for the 1-second pulse of the drill iteration. I wish I could speed it up a lot. Controlling the turning isn't an issue because I can pause. It might be fun to have the drill slowly speed up as a function of your depth. So as your reward goes up, so increases the risk (and hopefully the fun!)

kibertoad 2014-05-06 20:28

Nice twist on snake mechanics, I enjoyed it.

jupiter_hadley 2014-05-11 20:31

I couldnt make the stinkin drill move, but cool game over all :) I included it in part 24 of my Ludum Dare Compilation video series :) http://youtu.be/a1xd0I3_xtY

ioboi 2014-05-11 22:58

Thank you, I really like your youtube channel and the series :)
You have to click the last drill-segment to make it change the direction.
I'm sorry, I should've written that in the instructions :/