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Crayon Miners

By charimation

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Theme3733.15
Fun4242.92
Mood4352.96
Humor4512.37
Graphics4743.12
Audio4862.75
Overall4913.00
Innovation5532.62
Coolness146046

Comments

omgnoseat 2014-04-29 02:30

Adorable graphics

ruerob 2014-04-29 12:17

I like this game. It's a good work with nice graphics and a challenging gameplay.

msaul 2014-04-29 12:20

Classic game, nice graphics and audio. A little irritating that you have to take the mouse to start a new game.

philip_sinclair 2014-04-29 12:29

Hi Charlotte, thanks for the comments! I enjoyed your game, had me hooked for a while. I htink it would be nice if the tunnel was wider at the start, the getting thinner over time - i died about 10 times during the first few turns. Didn't really know what to do when i reached the first miner so just continued on and then died again. I didn't recognise the artwork? I remember you making different tiles at 8bit? Philip

charimation 2014-04-29 15:07

Thanks for the nice comments guys ;u;

@MPaul - That's a good point o: I've edited it, so any keyboard button can now start the game :) I hope that's less annoying. Thanks for the feedback!

@Philip - Those are some really good ideas, thanks for the feedback :D Yeah xD I think maybe I should've thought about the learning curve a little more as it kind of throws you straight in and is tricky.

The miners just up your supply delivered count by 1 when you bump into them :) There's 5 of them to get, although the main point is to get to the supply miner at the bottom, so that's the important one ^^

and yeah, I re-made the tile sheet when I got home because I wasn't happy with the stuff I'd made, the other sprites were just a place holder for a little bit until I got home and could use a proper drawing program :)

The only issue with jamming at 8bit is my laptop is almost 7 years old now, so it takes forever to load the play-tests and it's not powerful enough to have any of the usual drawing tools I use working smoothly. Maybe next time I'll figure out a way to bring my main computer down with me as I do enjoy jamming with other people around :D It's just a really inefficient use of my time waiting for play tests that take 10 mins to load when my desktop does it in 20 seconds xD

Thank you for the comments :)

Magnus 2014-04-29 16:08

Congratulations on your first LD :)

ohfiddlediddle 2014-04-29 16:21

Fantastic game with cute graphics.
Although the audio when dying, which I did a lot of, is very... "In your face". :P
I would almost describe it as scary. :P

sir_json 2014-04-29 16:46

This game is hard!

cakemonitor 2014-04-29 17:12

Great work! Nice music and a good difficulty level too - however, I would like it if there was maybe a checkpoint at each miner... it took me quite a few tries to reach the 2nd miner though I eventually got the hang of it but then on dying near, say, the 4th miner and having to do (and sometimes fail and re-do) all the early tunnels over again was a bit of a pain. Still, it's overall very fun and compelling to try again! Well done :)

castlecake 2014-04-30 13:01

Nice game! It was fun, but the audio was extremely striking whenever I died, especially as I was always concentrating so hard! Died about 30 times only getting as far as two miners (too tough for me, so I didn't finish, sorry!), but I love the crayon graphics and the music track.

cr2crstudios 2014-04-30 15:20

Cute! You should make shift speed you up. :)

simonld 2014-04-30 15:53

Lovely art style, love the game objective :) Quite a difficult game though. Congrats for creating your first LD game!

chronoberry 2014-04-30 23:15

The art and sound effects are really cute! I definitely had a hard attack when I first hit the wall though. Game is definitely tough!

nkracer 2014-05-01 00:34

Raging to cheerful music is always fun, and quite funny! nice game

jed-tiotuico 2014-05-01 00:42

Love the cute graphics and even though the mechanic is simple it's surprisingly fun. If you decide to put more polish I suggest putting player lives so once because it's too difficult for me currently.

jupiter_hadley 2014-05-02 19:42

Super challenging, beautiful graphics, nice game! I included it in part 9 of my Ludum Dare compilation video series if you'd like to take a look http://youtu.be/ln7f84GPnPg

matthias_zarzecki 2014-05-04 19:33

Nice idea! Rocket-maneouvring is fun. Reminded me of MGS a bit.

It is really hard though in places.