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Water Miner

By elefantopia

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness1100
Graphics664.31
Humor1123.38
Overall2373.41
Innovation2953.18
Audio3173.18
Mood3213.14
Theme3343.24
Fun3413.04

Comments

oatsbarley 2014-04-28 14:12

Just so you know, there aren't any links to builds/players. Makes it tough to vote for! ;)

jacques_le_lezard 2014-04-28 18:10

Haha yes you forgot something ^^ (but it already looks great)

elefantopia 2014-04-28 19:33

Haha thanks guys, I missed this bit: (Don't forget the http://)

softwave 2014-04-28 20:08

I love this. I especially love the graphics and the whole "aesthetic", the game has. And the drilling/morphable terrain thing is rad.

dustystylus 2014-04-28 20:13

Hehe, curious! Beautiful graphics and nice aesthetic, as mentioned. I got stuck in a big hole... went a bit crazy with the digging. @__@

fyberoptic 2014-04-28 20:14

The graphics are gorgeous, and I really like the destructible terrain. Nice work!

xangotrick66 2014-04-28 20:14

Loved them sound effects, and the graphics are very nice!

longshorts 2014-04-28 20:18

The graphics are gorgeous, and the mining mechanic is nice and simple (although it took me a little while to figure out how to get food). However what really sold this to me was the sound effects, which sounds like they were all done with your voice! Max humor rating!

gwa 2014-04-28 20:21

Wow it looks great!

ccglp 2014-04-28 20:25

Sound effects so fucking wonderful xD

pawegio 2014-04-28 20:44

Looks really good! Love this hexagon grass. Hey, I would love to make such graphics, respect. :)

geckoo1337 2014-04-28 21:37

Like said our friend Jacques - you forgot (again) something - I have passed through the ground. In fact I didn't know this is possible to generate a ground like this with unity. It's a great concept... but with many bugs ++

dominator_101 2014-04-28 22:05

Those sound effects are awesome!

sevenkingdomssurvivors 2014-04-29 05:33

Pretty funny sound effects. Graphics looked great!

2014-04-29 05:37

Sweet game! From the sounds (especially "bling, bling")to the beautiful graphics (even as you're breaking the environment) to the easy mining control. Awesomeness!

ioboi 2014-04-29 17:55

Wow, nice game!
The art style is beautiful :)

sim00n 2014-04-30 03:27

Wow a lot of work put into this. Digging underground is trippy but I like it. This game needs some purpose though. Overall a good job.

jonochrome 2014-04-30 09:02

*HOFF CHOMP chomp chomp*

scruffylooking 2014-05-01 03:28

"Take that, Tree!" Very fun to dig and try to get out.

kirbytails7 2014-05-01 03:29

Very pretty, and it's fun to be able to dig so fast. I did notice a bug where you can stand close enough to a wall and dig at it without destroying it, so you can get lots of food and gems very easily.

kmakai 2014-05-01 03:37

Great job, amazing what can get done in so little time!

depp 2014-05-01 04:17

Enjoyable but not challenging.

bmacintosh 2014-05-01 04:52

This is great! It didn't grab my mouse, though, which made it a bit annoying to play.

blockbot 2014-05-01 13:21

The art is really nice.

yword 2014-05-03 13:45

Very cool idea and implementation! Well done!

2014-05-03 19:20

Awesome game. But the fps is very low, could be just an internet problem. But its is amazing, beautiful and a clever concept

mrexcessive 2014-05-03 20:07

Hi. Interesting idea. Like the detail texture and the sounds. Made a huge tunnel!

mintarcade 2014-05-04 21:18

Very enjoyable. Nice deformation algorithm. Very funny audio - like it very much.

kddekadenz 2014-05-04 22:29

Unity webplayer does not work on Linux OS.
Feel free to drop me a tweet @tinyworlds (or award me a trophy here if you haven't Twitter) if you publish this to Linux ;)

christinaneofotistou 2014-05-06 21:48

Incredible graphics and mood! I'm sure it' a feat of engineering too, I'm not even smart enough to understand how you did it. Drilling is absolutely responsive and very fun to do!

csanyk 2014-05-07 00:51

Graphics are really beautiful. Sound effects don't really fit, but are humorous I guess. Not too much gameplay, though. The deformable ground is very cool.

ragzouken 2014-05-07 15:29

The graphics are awesome, love the mosaic effect!

jsmars 2014-05-07 15:29

Nice job really good looking game :)

pikkpoiss 2014-05-10 05:39

Wow, what a gorgeous game. I really dug the texture work and it looks way more polished than it should be given the short time frame. The digging seemed cool, unfortunately it ran relatively choppily on a Mac Air (underpowered, I know) so it was tough to play. Loved the sound effects though :)

georgebroussard 2014-05-10 06:39

Graphics and tech are nice. Something to really build on post compo. Sound effects cracked me up :)

xenosns 2014-05-10 17:47

Love the home made sound effects! Looks great too. Bit confusing to move around in the small window.

moosefly 2014-05-11 00:28

Sound effects are very lulzy and the graphics and tech here are probably the most impressive I've seen so far. Too bad it lacks any true purpose, like Sim00n said.

Did fall trough the world once, and I was sure the game would crash but damn, it just put me back at the surface! Was very positively surprised.

Anssi@MooseflyGames

qubedstudios 2014-05-11 00:35

Very Nice! It's the kind of stuff I'd like to do with voxels if my computer was 10000x faster, but what you're doing with polygons is very impressive!

hybridmind 2014-05-11 13:41

I mined 64 gems! :) I love the humor of spawning the food, water, and gems right out of the ground. Explored around for quite a while. I almost wish there wasn't the time limit because I was having fun playing with the terrain, but had to keep finding food and water to stay alive long enough. Cool tech!

degtyarev 2014-05-11 14:44

Looks great! Congrats!

madmaw 2014-05-12 09:14

Amazing game for 48 hours!

elefantopia 2014-05-12 14:51

madmaw, uh would you be mad at me if I revealed it took 8 hours to make?

elefantopia 2014-05-12 15:23

I added Linux for my friends linuxers - yay!

elefantopia 2014-05-12 15:36

do you folks want me to ease the nomnomnom so you can explore more?

elefantopia 2014-05-12 16:24

QubedStudio, the terrain tech isn't mine, it's a pack called TerraVol by Amfu.

derosa 2014-05-12 17:12

Nice and easy to play. I found it relaxing but it crashed really hard every time I played it (3-4 times)

seme 2014-05-17 20:21

I really liked the graphics. Sound effects were awesome! :D Good job!

mark-goetz 2014-05-18 03:12

I like the strategy and the deformable terrain! Unfortunately, my poor laptop couldn't quite keep up with big areas, so it got close to unplayable. I also wasn't able to find food or gems, just water, which made my playthrough a bit frustrating. But I love that you recorded the sound effects yourself!

andreiagmu 2014-05-18 04:13

Awesome game! Digging the scenery is soooo sweet!

victordoval 2014-05-18 13:08

Beautiful, and inspiring, thanks!

teesquared 2014-05-18 13:55

Best use of a Photoshop filter at the compo. Needs more urgency but it is fun to explore and launch balls.

brodenino 2014-05-18 14:16

It's nice to see some refreshing art, and the ability to create smooth tunnels. The whole survival system works quite well, where the components have their own tradeoffs the player need to take into consideration. It ran abit choppy though, but maybe that is because of my graphics configuration. Perhaps a stand-alone build for windows would work much smoother :).

teamflare 2014-05-18 19:20

very nice Game!

wschorn 2014-05-19 04:14

beautiful. it was unclear what was going on in some digging situations but the look of the earth is something really insanely enjoyable, so I just keep digging for zen.

crocantidepollo 2014-05-19 09:33

Nice terrain deformation mechanic. Feels good!

kerdelos 2014-05-19 15:25

I find the graphism gorgeous but the game is hard to play as the mouse keeps moving out of the window =/

minibutmany 2014-05-19 21:19

Really well polished for the short time frame. I would pay for a complete version of something like this.

sk16games 2014-05-19 21:41

Very fun game :D would like to see some goal besides just surviving, but overall nice entry ;)

kragnir 2014-05-20 00:49

Nice deformation effect. Very fluid game, would be fun with some more goal. Like the floating islands.

elefantopia 2014-05-20 02:32

@Kragnir - I like that idea of goal that have to do with architecturing the terrain... I'll see how I can make that.