Will and Testament

natpat 2021-04-27 19:41

What a sweet little experience! The digging was really well done, with the earth feeling very realistic and actually quite tactile to dig. I liked the simple art and soundscape. Even if there's not much of a game, it's a pretty impressive experience. Once small thing is that on the last level I got a bit stuck as I dug straight down and then couldn't get back out or dig up, or restart the level, and my earth wouldn't be flung high enough to get out the hole. Still, great job overall!

petrroll 2021-04-27 19:44

Love the adorable atmosphere! The sounds, the minimalistic graphics, the overall feeling :)

Much like ^^ I also got stuck a few times due to tunneling under still existing dirt and not being able to fling the earth away (always got stuck on "dirt ceiling").

cyborg-studio 2021-04-27 19:46

Short, sweet, and cute! Love the dirt simulation. :)

tino 2021-04-27 19:47

Mood is a success, the graphics and sound arts blend. Really impressed by the dirt feeling, different from actual dirt only in a good way, artistically and gameplay wise.

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adam-k 2021-04-27 19:50

The dirt physics and destruction is really nice. It felt very satisfying. I think it was on level 4 I got stuck though because I went straight down and I would just throw the dirt back on myself because the walls were too high, so it was really tough to progress further than that because I couldn't destroy the walls on my sides.

kaito 2021-04-27 19:50

Very cool game, cute and relaxing even though I got stuck a few times when digging under "hard" dirt. I really enjoyed the experience :)

johanhelsing 2021-04-27 20:01

Thanks everyone! Yeah, I totally should have put in a retry level button!

themoonrise 2021-04-27 20:17

This is a quirky and fun little game definetely worth a play. After playing the 1000th down the well game this is a fresh take on the theme. Also the dirt simulation works quite well and is statisfying to watch and play with. Well done!

remusnomos 2021-04-27 20:18

That's what I imagine by digging dirt. Combined with nice sounds, minimalistic visuals and a funny but clever story is a very good mix. Liked it! Thank you, Sir!

lev 2021-04-27 20:25

Digging physics is really impressive! Can you maybe give a short explaination of how it was made? ;) The game also looks and sounds good

johanhelsing 2021-04-27 20:46

@lev Thanks. Short version is that the dirt blobs are simply cubes in Unity's physics engine. I do some hacks to freeze them in case they are moving very slowly, to forcefully stop unstable shivering piles of dirt, and to save performance and also turn previously dug up dirt into new "walls" of dirt.

```c# private void FixedUpdate() { drowsing += Time.fixedDeltaTime; var sqrVelocity = rb.velocity.sqrMagnitude; if (sqrVelocity < SleepSpeed * SleepSpeed) { if (drowsing > 1) { rb.Sleep(); rb.constraints = RigidbodyConstraints2D.FreezeAll; } } else { drowsing = 0; } } ```

I then simply "wake" them up by removing the constraints in an area when the shovel is thrust forward.

I actually think the rendering does most of the heavy lifting here. As they merge together when they are close, they look less like separate objects and maintain the illusion of being "packed" dirt. But that's a different story entirely :)

Might put all this in a post-mortem at some point :)

cvetk0 2021-04-27 20:47

I loved this. I mean, the simulation of the dirt is great, and graphics look so smooth. But the best thing is the family tradition. No matter how you feel about your grandchildren, always leave a nice "cheerful" note for them and make sure treasure is dug so deep that they really have to break a sweat :smile:. The only thing I found a bit annoying was the fact that you cant really control digging direction in terms of straight or up perhaps. If you don't dig even enough you find yourself in situation where you have to get the dirt out of a tunnel, which is pretty hard... but hey, that is what a no good grand child deserves. I wonder how it would go if the last one actually did have children!?

Great game, keep up the good work!

lev 2021-04-27 21:05

@johanhelsing ah, thanks! That's really cool that you could do this with just cubes, I thougth it was some shader magic :D

remn 2021-04-27 21:12

Its very cool mechanics! But I have found some bugs.Без имени.png

ds-nahogara 2021-04-27 22:23

It was a pleasant experience, i love the aesthetic and also how the dirt reacts, the sound is sweet and detailed. I noticed that if you dig long enough like 5 meters, the dirt starts lagging, in the future it would be cool to optimize the rigid bodies in chunks or something like that hehe.

Fantastic craft! :heart:

okamit 2021-04-27 22:33

A cute experience, the digging mechanic and dirt physics felt really good.

Good work!

nardandas 2021-05-18 06:39

The digging looked and felt great! I also liked the fun little blurbs at the beginning of each level. It was just a bit slow and boring, nothing surprising in the level besides the goal. With a little more content this could be a nice relaxing little game!