vinull 2014-04-27 23:55
I love the idea of digging past the crust of the earth. I had fun playing it.
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD29 → Earth.
By miwuc
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Theme | 12 | 4.17 | ||
| Coolness | 3 | 73 | ||
| Fun | 401 | 3.20 | ||
| Innovation | 402 | 3.29 | ||
| Graphics | 420 | 3.37 | ||
| Overall | 425 | 3.31 | ||
| Humor | 595 | 2.38 | ||
| Mood | 639 | 2.90 | ||
| Audio | 691 | 2.51 |
I love the idea of digging past the crust of the earth. I had fun playing it.
That was an awesome game. I love how you find the tools after digging around for awhile and the fossils are great.
I liked it well enough
OMG, dinosaurs! Great game, it perfectly fits the theme.
Nice idea & beautiful art! LOVED it!
I had fun. I was really close to quitting when I got to the end, maybe if there was one more slot for a final artifact to signal the end of the game it would have kept me looking for it. Overall good sense of progression, though.
Neat idea, even if it has similarities to minecraft. I like the graphic style.
Nice idea, and the fossils are very cool. It's good to have audio, but the sound did grate a little after a while.
Is there a kind of ambient occlusion lighting effect on the blocks? It looks it - very clever!
Bravo, this is very impressive seeing as you just used jQuery. Definitly look in to Phaser.js(http://phaser.io), you'll feel right at home looking at your code for this. ;)
Great little explore and discover game, don't care if it is inspired by minecraft, I loved it. Definitely needs a mute option however, as the sounds quickly get annoying.
The game is so simple, but I kept playing until the end of it because the game is designed not to be boring (for example, last tiles of the previous layer gets removed automatically). This is a nice use of the theme, and it's quite entertaining. And it's JavaScript :D
Good job.
It's really cool to play and i really loved to hover mouse and destroy everything in my way.
Nice idea
Pretty nice and casual game! Maybe needs a pressure element to up the 'game' factor a bit - like damaging the bones when you hit them with the wrong tools; get less points. :)
Wonderful use of the theme! It's surface after surface and unveiling the stuff beneath.
Totally killed my index finger though :D
I like the way the blocks burst and fade out when you break them apart. Also how each level will fade out when you have pretty much cleared it out. The concept is great too.
That was a nice idea. Graphics and gameplay is cool!
Dinosaurs!
I love it!!!
It was fun once I started finding stuff, until then I wasn't sure exactly what I was doing. Then I was like "Oh, archaeology, cool!" Maybe a bit of a hook would help - like a backstory or rigging it so that the first block dug always finds something, then the game returns to normal.
very good game! nice ideA
Very pleasant experience! I kept expecting to find some scary deep-earth horror, for some reason!
That was really cute! I half expected to dig too greedily and too deep so I'd unleash a Balrog :).
(Previous comment was my daughter's) - Enjoy digging up the fossils and don't know if this was intended but I was able to "speed dig" by clicking while rapidly moving the mouse. Every now and then a layer would vanish on it's own though, don't know if that was part of the game.
The museum should be happy with my work!
The dig sound with the initial shovel sometimes overlapped in a way that became grating, but overall, nice job, :)
Thank you all for your comments!
@vinull, yes, the "speed dig" was intended (otherwise the hand and the shovel would do the same thing), but completely undiscoverable, I should really have added a help message.
The disappearing layers are also intended, I didn't want it to be too grindy so a layer disappears when there's under 20% left of it.
Also lesson learned about the sound, I'll add a mute button next time!
Wish there was some type of challenge in this game. The idea is really neat, though! I liked it.
I loved the sense of light flooding down into the depths. Very engaging if not super challenging. I don't see minecraft connection -- this is quite original.
Cool take on the theme, and I like the graphics. A bit of challenge could have added to it - maybe hide bad stuff underneath some tiles à la MineSweeper?
good take on the theme, the digging feels pretty good and i like the bone sprites :)
Overall this game is solid and can be expanded.
Top down minecraft was fun
Good game. Nice work!