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Wormy's Dangerous Dig

By pavelc

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall1643.8129
Fun1723.7729
Innovation1953.7029
Theme2853.8329
Graphics3983.5129
Audio4073.2229
Humor3022.8522
Mood3963.3428

Comments

coyotethursday 2021-04-26 03:51

I really liked the vibe of this game, the bones were a great touch! I also had a lot of fun figuring out how the digging mechanic worked, that was super interesting

rhoff95 2021-04-26 04:06

Really cool game. I like the idea of a 'sim' combined with snake. Well done.

nekusoul 2021-04-27 15:24

Nice idea to combine Snake with a dash of physics. Puts an interesting spin on how you'd normally play.

pavelc 2021-04-27 21:48

Thanks for giving it a try!

timeloopedpowergamer 2021-04-27 23:24

Loved it. Played all the way to the end. Really liked the physics combined with blocky graphics.

gnaro 2021-04-27 23:25

What a great submission! An elegant idea with such good execution! Congrats!

threeli 2021-04-28 01:22

I can't believe this is the first PICO game I ran into. I loved it! I did accidentally glitch through the bottom of a screen when I'm guessing the fall mechanic took over a rather than pushing me left or right, but you must have coded for that because I popped right back up a second later.

The fall mechanic is really interesting actually. Ended with a score of only 100, but I did have a good time. Great work!

pavelc 2021-04-28 13:03

@timeloopedpowergamer @gnaro I'm glad you liked it!

@threeli Yeah I also noticed that bug, there must be some edge case left somewhere. Hope I will find the time to add a bugfix. For Pico games, I really enjoyed the mechanics of this Pico-8 entry I found: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/48/digidig

goldenevolution 2021-04-28 14:06

Fun little snake-like game with extra mechanics! Good submission!

crazybot 2021-04-28 14:20

I finished it and scored 290, I really liked it! the holes mechanic took me a while to figure out because I had to realise it wasn't actually top down view

But overall a really creative take on the snake game classic!

zimny11 2021-04-28 19:53

A really cool take on this timeless classic! It was fun to play!

pavelc 2021-04-29 15:53

@crazybot Yeah, I was actually wondering about that. "hen you work on something at a certain point you don't even notice things like that, but I also thought it is actually quite ambiguous whether it is side or top-down view graphics wise. Originally planned to have the outside world and some grass on the top of the first level to make it clearer, but didn't get around to adding that.

xxnolanxx 2021-04-29 22:32

Really enjoyed this! I like how it started out feeling like a pretty standard snake clone, but as I got through the levels I realized how important the differences really were, and ended up feeling like a completely different game. Great job!

plexium-nerd 2021-04-29 22:43

I like how the instructions were incorporated into the levels. Very clever twist on a snake game!

vederant 2021-04-29 22:45

Really cool idea! It's feels weird that this is the first snake-adventure I came across, but it is such a great combination! The "snake" looks a bit suggestive though ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

audrey 2021-04-29 22:49

Very very good concept!! A nice amount of mechanics, speed affecting your jump length was really great and totally seems like something you could build off of! Allowing the player to choose to slow themselves down if they needed to was a very good idea, and not immediately killing the player from one mistake was definitely something I was pleased to see on the second-last screen when I hit some lava haha. My one complaint is that grabbing food can sometimes be difficult because of the required pixel-perfect precision I guess?

secret-magic-404 2021-04-29 22:59

Wow that was fun! What a great snake-like adventure game. I was having a blast, but the game crashed!

The message error I got is "runtime error line 418" and apparently had to do with the update process for the cavities.

Hopefully that will be helpful to you to debug the game. I'll give it another try later to see if I can make it to the end! :smile:

doctortm 2021-04-30 01:16

Nice compo! Interesting mechanics

pavelc 2021-04-30 21:59

@xxnolanxx @plexium-nerd @doctortm So glad to hear you enjoyed it!

@vederant Haha, maybe I should have chosen other colors :sweat_smile:

@secret-magic-404 Oh wow hadn't encountered that, will have a look. Thanks for pointing it out.

blob 2021-05-01 03:26

Ah that's a fun idea. Cool concepts to have to go over chasms using speed. Could see some interesting puzzles using length and speed.

ds-nahogara 2021-05-01 07:26

I never played a Snake game WITH gravity! This is the first time ever, it is a really cool idea, i love that you can also jump from side to side in some levels from open areas, and literally the fact that everything is eatable makes it even better.

FANTASTIC Game! :heart:

pancelor 2021-05-04 19:03

nice twist on snake! I liked the fire pit in level 5; I nearly dove right in! I like how lenient the game was; if I only had 1 life I dunno if I would have replayed after getting hit, but I made it to the end and enjoyed it :)

team-on 2021-05-05 11:50

Impressive innovation for a shake!

felo07 2021-05-07 00:20

Really simple game, good graphics. Sound effects a bit annoying. Nice take on a classic

euler-moises 2021-05-14 04:00

Liked it! A more modern worm game. With phases and power ups. Not just that annoying thing of just increasing in size. Take this project forward. It will definitely be a great game.

congratulations on the work!