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Shovel Quest

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness1100
Fun453.91
Overall623.91
Graphics1083.98
Theme1333.80
Humor1493.29
Mood2663.37
Innovation5193.11
Audio5342.81

Comments

xtanner-danielsx 2014-04-27 17:14

I love the style and gameplay.

mrcrazyscience 2014-04-27 17:14

Great game fun and surprising. Great job

fyberoptic 2014-04-28 04:37

Great game. You've come up with some neat mechanics, which go along well with the visuals and gameplay. I also enjoy the sense of humor. I've never been a prouder owner of a vintage coat hanger.

somfunambulist 2014-04-28 04:38

Great graphics!

lparkermg 2014-04-28 04:40

Great game!

glowingsnail 2014-04-28 07:32

The engine is fast and responsive, that feels good. The blocky 3D engine with pixellated texture, while not original, is kinda cute. Passing the levels require a bit of thinking each time, which is good. Good entry overall!

glowingsnail 2014-04-28 07:33

Thank you for supporting arrow keys. Could you also support non-wide screen-resolutions please?

thristhart 2014-04-28 07:39

Great style! I feel like the appearance would be significantly less weird if the hand that's attached to the body pivoted with the shovel hand instead. I can tell if I liked a game if I am willing to retry it after dying - and I was immediately willing to give this another go. Didn't make it past 14/16 artifacts, but I had fun anyway. Big fan of the pikmin-style artifact names. Definitely the funniest entry I've played so far.

psychopsam 2014-04-28 12:21

What a great game. I really like the graphics and style. Reminds me of Pitfall. Super polished too. Great work.

korwegian 2014-04-28 14:48

Very VERY well done. Can you send me an envelope of butter-like substance? I need it for... for science... for to looking at it...

marccspro 2014-04-29 16:40

Nice game well play ;)

marcus_siactro 2014-04-30 07:58

Now this one was great! I had a lot of zelda and soul blazer feels while playing this game. Great work

frump 2014-04-30 08:01

The targeting is a bit strange but I had a lot of fun with this. Good job!

mintarcade 2014-04-30 08:13

Very nice game, cute graphics

contacaton 2014-04-30 08:17

That poor spider at the end XD

covenant 2014-05-01 13:04

Loved it! The graphics were awesome, and the gameplay was solid.
Only complaint is that the controls could be a little tighter, but very good work nevertheless! :)

thegreentie 2014-05-01 13:09

Holy crap! That was fun! Probably one of my top 5!
Just a reminder, don't make mouse-based games without a fullscreen option, I found myself clicking outside the game while fighting spiders...

tomvert 2014-05-01 13:16

Interesting, made me think of zelda games (the bomb). I love the art style.

paps 2014-05-01 13:23

love the artifacts, the style, and the puzzle. I did not go very deep though. Very fun to play

mechabit 2014-05-02 11:00

I like the 3D graphics and the humor. Fun mechanics.

lostautumnguy 2014-05-04 04:24

Great execution of gameplay, and cute graphics.

Well done! Keep up the hard work!

bob_fish 2014-05-04 04:27

I found 7 on my first try. Very nice game. Great art, sounds and gameplay. Great job!

rojo 2014-05-04 04:41

Definitely enjoyed this one. I got a laugh out of dirt flavored lipstick. Some background music would have been great, though.

lacaranian 2014-05-06 04:53

Cool game. The Pikmin style item descriptions were a nice touch. Kudos!

eazygoin67 2014-05-06 11:45

I adore this game; probably my favorite of this Ludum Dare so far. The environments and art style are great. It was a little tedious when knocking those rocks around the map, particularly when through small openings, or when there were structures/wall obscuring the camera. Otherwise a great play. Fantastic work!

soupwithbits 2014-05-06 12:08

This is quite a game for 48 hours!
Wow! Really well done!

gap 2014-05-06 15:04

*High Five =>* Nice graphics, good game :)

victordoval 2014-05-06 15:07

Clean and fun!I Loved the cube style!

gwenn 2014-05-06 15:11

Impressive entry with great graphics. The gameplay is very smooth and fun to play.

degtyarev 2014-05-07 22:08

Cute characters and the style pretty neat! Well done!

Jeremias 2014-05-09 14:14

A solid game. The artifacts made me smile everytime :D sometimes the camera angle makes it a bit difficult to see paths or gaps.

dustoutgames 2014-05-10 02:57

Good. Game. Would I play again? The short answer is yes. The long answer is yes, please. I'd like to see some music added, but this was a really fun, well-built game.

xenosns 2014-05-10 02:58

Excellent job! Nice fleshed out concept and great humour

mcapraro 2014-05-10 22:27

i like the overall feel of this game, good work!

jupiter_hadley 2014-05-12 01:56

Love the child aspect of the game. I included it in part 25 of my Ludum Dare compilation video series, if you'd like to check it out :) http://youtu.be/06U_lc3kLp4

jonathang 2014-05-12 08:01

This is great! It's fun to play and there is a good progression of difficulty. It's packed with humour too!

copain 2014-05-13 11:29

Simple and fun. Good.

lucidlarva 2014-05-13 15:10

I loved this a ton. Really nice gameplay and art and sound and design.

joe40001 2014-05-14 09:25

Fun game, seems very much inspired by pikmin.

moosefly 2014-05-17 12:22

As others have already mentioned, it's a solid game. Didn't make it far on my first try, but got all of the artifacts on my second run (with one life to spare even). Nice simple puzzles too.

I did have some issues with it:
- Walls blocked your view in some points.
- The area you could see was quite limited, especially when moving towards the screen I had to move by tapping the key so I wouldn't run into any spiders.
- Could've used a fullscreen option.
- The enemies were somewhat tedious, being able to kill them in maybe three hits would've probably been more fun.
- Ambient background audio or something? Didn't like the walking sound effect.

Anssi@MooseflyGames

sk16games 2014-05-19 21:56

Love this game :D