ladymeow 2022-10-03 19:42
The graphics are awesome!! But it is really hard ;)
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD51 → MineKeeper
By flanne
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 321 | 3.76 | 61 | |
| Fun | 258 | 3.75 | 61 | |
| Innovation | 668 | 3.22 | 61 | |
| Theme | 658 | 3.57 | 61 | |
| Graphics | 290 | 4.05 | 61 | |
| Humor | 702 | 2.61 | 51 | |
| Mood | 580 | 3.45 | 56 |
The graphics are awesome!! But it is really hard ;)
A really hard game, it was quite hard though.
It also seems really heavily inspired by the game "Dome Keeper" That recently released, just with the 10 second theme slapped on as a difficulty curve.
Wow, beautiful and very fun! I had an issue where my ladder didn't line up and I had to click outside of the square to place my turrets.
I think this game is great fun and I love the concept of digging for materials to build turrets beneath your base. I don't think the game is necessarily *too hard* but I do think it's far too easy to just die within the first wave if you're trying to figure out what's going on. Once I knew what I was doing I was able to beat the game fine, but a little more leeway to get yourself established would be good.
Nice job! This has a lot going for it. I couldn't get very far but once I figured out what I was doing I did manage do make some progress at least. I'd add to your controls description that you build but point/clicking on the turrets. That took me probably 10 tries before I figure it out. Sound and graphics good too
Fun little game, I do appreciate the double viewport a LOT
I found myself wanting to check to make sure the house was doing fine but the seconds wasted looking at the house could have been used to get more resources. A simple challenging game I enjoyed. The soundtrack was perfect for the game. I thoroughly enjoyed this.
I was able to win in my third or fourth try by putting some crossbows up early and then digging deep for a bunch of gold and filling out the rest of the spots with the higher power weapons. This game is an absolute success! You made a complete game, that works, is fun, matches the theme, looks and feels good. I really have no complaints, well done!
amazing game.. really hard at start.. took several tries to learn the positions of ores but finally beat it.
Super cute, quite a difficulty spike but super fun and aestetically so awesome
Nice game, I really like the concept of playing two games at once. I think it would be cool if there was something to micromanage up top while you're working the mines on the bottom. The split screen aspect of it was done really well, and the scrolling of the bottom view felt good.
I wasn't really prepared for how quickly I needed to get towers out on my first go, but managed to beat it on my second attempt. I was a little disappointed that it ended so quickly, but that's just because I was having a good time :smile:
Controls felt a bit annoying to me, which is exacerbated when the game gives you a tight time limit, since it feels like you're struggling to get the game to do what you want. I lost my first run because I didn't realize I could climb walls. Dug myself into a hole and then realized too late I was stuck and couldn't escape. Even knowing that, my second run I'd often try to jump up 1 block and end up digging out the block I was trying to land on , which was fairly annoying and cost time Up top, while building towers, after building one tower you lose the ability to build more even if you have the cash. I'd have to press right click, which would send me down into the mine, then climb back up, in order to build more towers.
That said, it was pretty good aside from those rough bits. The art's pretty good and after getting over the "what's going on phase" it's not too difficult.
I had some fun playing, but it was really tough. I think the enemies really start to stack up incredibly fast with the 10 second spawn rate. I'd almost reduce it to one enemy every ten seconds because if the player can't build up their defenses to match, the enemies will start to stack and deal increasing damage to the base.
I played to the end and won :) It would be great if the resources populated randomly every time. I had some difficulty in the beginning and trying to jump back up to skeins I dug. The digging noise was unexpected ASMR XD MineKeeper.PNG
tried to dig whole map, nice game!
I liked it a lot! It was really hard at first, but really cool to play.
SO CUTE GAME,,the arrow hit effect are very nice,,,,but it is a little hard to defence,, I tried many times defeat 3 th waves,ps: building system some time not working,nice game man
the idea is cool but not fully implemented and the balance is tight
I won! The game feels really difficult until you figure it out which is awesome. I love your pixel art too, great job.
I can't figure out how to make turrets, help?
EDIT: Okay nvm, figured it out
I won! :D This was punishing but doable. At one point I placed a gold turret with probably a second to spare. Fun little game, thank you!
It's really hard, but I love the idea of building turrets based on resources you mine
I see both our games have some dome keeper inspirations. The game is really fast paced. I felt like the beginning wave was a bit hectic but once you get the turrets you can start taking on the enemies. Also the fact you have to be careful about your mining since you can fall makes your mining choices strategic. I liked the game. I would love to see this game in a more relaxed pace where I could enjoy the mining phase. Great work!
This was really fun experience, I know the theme is 10 seconds but I wish it had timer being longer :D It was really fun to combine mining with tower defence and I wish it was longer as I would love to play this game more. I hope you develop it further!
Nice, great quickly beatable game, very fun. Nice use of 2 resources, 2 turrets, one enemy, simple concept works very well. I had fun.
as someone who loves the gathering of ressources to deffend my base, this game was really fun :*
Really cool mix between tower defense and mining. Difficulty wise, it did take me quite a few tries to win, but it was a nice challenge.
Screenshot_2022-10-05 MineKeeper by flanne.png
Good job. Found it really tough and struggled to build a solid start my first few tries,, but managed to make some decent progress in the end. Does seem like an exact dome keeper clone, but good job to build it in just so few hours!
I really didn't get very far. I think someone here said to learn the positions of the ores. I thought they were random but honestly I hadn't looked. I didn't even get to build a gold one, which perhaps is what I need to try and beat it :-) 3 waves remaining is as far as I've gotten... I think making the ramp up slightly slower would be nice. There's not much time to learn and improve the game and that can get frustrating. Since you can't change the 10s timer because of the theme, perhaps balancing less ramp up of the waves and slightly less powerful turrets could give more time to get into the game without sacrificing the difficulty?
Nice game, I beat it after a few tries. I like art and sound!
Succeed to make it to the end ! It was not easy :D.
The beginning is hard. The second wave is deadly. Also it is not easy to jump to get higher resources.
Also I don't know why but I have a hard time to construct turrets. I don't where to click, so I just click everywhere in the squares until one spawn.
It was a little short but fun anyway.
Art and sounds are good, game play is fun, a little hectic but good entry!
5/5 Pretty fun to play!! Hoping to have more levels!
Hard game... it was quite hard though but very interesting. Want more levels! ]=)
it is so hard. I can only survive two waves and the bird kills me...... It is good to have a easy mode but the game is solid and fun to play with!
unknown.png really cool game and nice graphics, its short but its hard to make it longer on such short time, congrats on the really fun game
A great game idea, that needs just a little bit more balancing and polish. It was very hard to survive. But trying so, was fun! The art style and music is cute. With a little bit more content, this could be a great game also for longer play session.
This was a lot of fun to play. I see others in the comments talking about it being hard, but I thought it was pretty manageable once you've played a round to get a feel for the controls. Digging around was a lot of fun, and I liked that you had to go back to the ladder to ascend. The music, sound, and art were also superb. I also liked that I could see what was going on up at the surface while I was down in the mines. I could easily see myself playing this for longer if it had random ore generation and more resource/cannon types.
nice game ! fun to play, art is great ! (just one little note , the ladder to climb was a bit off center for me) (unfortunatly i cant post picture to show you)
Nice game, at first i think the turrents will be build just clicking in the buttons, It was a nice hard game to play, also the sounds and the art are very good
Really fun game, I love Core keepers game design so this was perfect to hook me in. My only criticism is the difficulty at the start, maybe ease it up a little bit so players can understand the flow of the game and get into it more easily. Overall a really solid entry, Great job!
Loved playing it, the art was great, and the gameplay itself was really fun!
Unfortunately, I didn't win despite beating all the waves and more. Took me a while to figure out that I could jump over blocks. The ui was also a little lacking for me. I also felt like the space inside the tower right where I get off the ladder was a little problematic for me to do my upgrades.
I enjoyed the game itself so much, thanks for making it!