ryjcio 2021-04-27 02:39
Could not figure out how the game works. Maybe throw in a bit more of instructions. Love the graphics tho, reminds me of Worms.
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD48 → Die in the Mine
By phyro, drkdavis and RodNasca
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 929 | 3.50 | 21 | |
| Fun | 1080 | 3.23 | 21 | |
| Innovation | 286 | 3.81 | 21 | |
| Theme | 1065 | 3.52 | 21 | |
| Graphics | 502 | 4.02 | 21 | |
| Audio | 616 | 3.52 | 20 | |
| Humor | 753 | 2.87 | 18 | |
| Mood | 1220 | 3.26 | 21 |
Could not figure out how the game works. Maybe throw in a bit more of instructions. Love the graphics tho, reminds me of Worms.
Great soundtrack, I liked the gameplay, though once I exploded the enemy I was mining at my leisure. I think sometimes my dice got lost, or maybe an action would use up multiple dice. A great job otherwise! Nice miner beard!
Neat entry with a simple mechanic! I did get a little confused about the instructions and forgot that A) I need X pickaxes to mine a tile with X pebbles, and 2) I need 3 attacks to attack. Aside from that, I thought the Yahtzee mechanic was really fun, and both the graphics and audio complimented the gameplay perfectly. A solid jam entry!
Unfortunately I was pretty confused as to how to play (despite reading the tutorial on this page and in-game) but luckily I realized that once you rolled 3 times, you had to click the actions in the bottom right, THEN click the tile you wanted to do the action on. I also totally didn't realize the slider on the bottom was for rotating the camera until I saw the gif on this page lol. Perhaps add a little camera icon next to/above it?
Aside from that, I really like the idea here and the graphics definitely have a nice consistent style to them. The audio is pretty simple but fitting and the gameplay itself is pretty fun. Overall, not bad, just a tad confusing, imo. :stuck_out_tongue:
It's an interesting and original game, once you figured out how it works. If you improve the tutorial and fix bugs, you'll get a nice commercial game with unique mechanics. Nicely done!
Really like this concept! It looks and sounds nice too, music just gets a bit repetitive 😅 Unfortunately experienced some of the same issues that others have described too, sometimes I went straight from rolling dice to ending my turn with no opportunity to actually use what I got, and sometimes I couldn't break a block even tho it was possible from the exact same spot on the next turn. Didn't get very far but I did enjoy it when it worked so would love to try a post-jam version where this has been sorted out. The presentation is really polished and the whole idea is great! 😁
Cool concept and nice take on the theme. It takes a few minute to figure out the game play mechanics but it's fun when you figure it out. Nice work.
Cool game. Love the dice mechanic (and pun)! The bug I ran into was reaching the bottom of the dungeon, and having it lock up (entire browser tab died - I had to close the whole browser session to end the game music).
Other than the bug at the end, I had fun! Maybe because I've played plenty of tabletop dice games, I found the rules pretty intuitive. Good game!
great game! I blew about half an hour on this game. some more detailed instructions would be great.
It took me a while to understand the phases but actually when it clicked I really started to enjoy it. In fact it really opens up how much complexity (in a good way!) there is in the game. There's also incredible amounts of polish that's gone into this, great job!
Interesting concept for a game. Nice graphics style. The spike ball is annoying, I would suggest having that only appear at later levels once the player gets used to the game.
A missing gem! Cool simplified turn based game! The only thing I recommend is been clearer on where can I move and mine, although is highlighted sometimes I have a tile in front of me but I cannot mine it or move to it.