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[HTML5] The Struggle

By vilmantas

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall4063.0131
Fun3732.9230
Innovation2913.1731
Theme4772.2431
Graphics3193.1931
Audio1.207
Humor2632.4828
Mood4082.5728

Comments

mimusangel 2022-10-03 16:31

Eeeh, I didn't understand anything...

vilmantas 2022-10-03 16:34

>Eeeh, I didn’t understand anything…

@mimusangel Which parts are confusing? Does the description mislead you somehow?

anxiousgamedev 2022-10-03 16:35

Hey, it's a very solid technical implementation - the animations, the rocks, the clouds, the crusher are all good. But I think the core mechanic - collecting rocks - isn't that fun. And the crusher is very demanding so I found you can lose quite quickly. I think the player would need more choices to make, perhaps to use the rocks for something. Overall great job making something

wrac4242 2022-10-03 16:35

feels like a good game, i like the point and click movement, only complaint is sometimes the clouds can be too in the way, but otherwise you done really well

torte478 2022-10-03 16:45

Like for Dmitri!

maxr00 2022-10-03 16:49

Nice entry! It was pretty tough trying to keep the crusher active, so I like that I had to decide to use the gems, but Dmitri not sleeping in time ended my run a couple of times lol

vilmantas 2022-10-03 16:50

>Nice entry! It was pretty tough trying to keep the crusher active, so I like that I had to decide to use the gems, but Dmitri not sleeping in time ended my run a couple of times lol

@maxr00 Thanks for playing! I'm glad you got to experience that particular feature :sweat_smile:.

I hope understanding the gameplay wasn't difficult. :bow:

zykino 2022-10-03 21:42

I did not understand how to use gems… but if I had took the time to read your description I would have understood :sweat_smile:.

I like the idea. But selling all the gems gives so much money that I am not sure crushing them is worth it :sweat_smile:. Maybe I had a good run where the rocks where close to Dmitry and the machine?

astrydax 2022-10-04 06:11

I enjoyed it. Almost felt like I was playing Old School Rune Scape at the Motherlode mine. Theme this time was indeed a bit challenging. Congrats on finishing on time solo!

momo-hunter 2022-10-04 11:46

I had a bug where a new stone would spawn every time I mined a specific stone (the one directly above Dmitri), but otherwise solid entry

blacklambert 2022-10-04 11:49

This is a solid entry. The connection to the theme is ok but could be more integrated into the gameplay. Also the style is pretty basic and I was missing some music.

mrmaico 2022-10-04 11:51

Space didn't work for me in the first try. Had to refresh the page. I liked that the selling was only open every 10 seconds. I'm not sure what I can do with the money or what the end goal is in the game.

Overall it is a playable game with a unique art style and a very unique take on the theme.

vilmantas 2022-10-04 12:42

>I enjoyed it. Almost felt like I was playing Old School Rune Scape at the Motherlode mine. Theme this time was indeed a bit challenging. Congrats on finishing on time solo!

@zykino I'll make sure to add the golem pet as an expansion point. :wink:

eugenik 2022-10-04 14:22

Thank you for the nurishment :scream_cat:.

puhan 2022-10-04 15:37

All mechanics were pretty solid, it would be better if the rock mines in the game also have gems on them like in the main menu so maybe the gameplay of prioritizing mining the ones with more gems.

haotian-chen 2022-10-04 15:52

game is quite hard actually, fun though. i think you can make a more clear deposit and pawn area, it takes me forever to dunk those gems to dimiri lol.

lightterradog 2022-10-04 19:00

I liked it, very peaceful actually

vilmantas 2022-10-05 09:00

>i think you can make a more clear deposit and pawn area, it takes me forever to dunk those gems to dimiri lol.

@haotian-chen Thanks for the feedback! Really appreciate that you tried out the game. :v:

vilmantas 2022-10-05 09:01

>it would be better if the rock mines in the game also have gems on them like in the main menu so maybe the gameplay of prioritizing mining the ones with more gems.

@puhan That's an interesting point, thank you and thanks for the feedback. :bow: Main menu was done afterwards and I didn't think of editing the existing rocks tbh, but that would make sense. :)

bosco 2022-10-05 09:54

Runescape mining has never been so fulfilling fun time management game, dmitri was a watchful and vengeful man

div00 2022-10-05 16:22

This is amazing! innovative concept and fun gameplay. I've enjoyed it so much.

I don't know if this was an issue from my side but I wished if there was a music, sound effects, and audio cues for when Dimitry is sleeping. This game would've been in another level with the sound.

Another one that I feel the deposit area is not well defined, it's challenging to find a good spot, and annoying when you are right there with the time almost zero but can't deposit.

Other than that, it's a very fun game :100:

rahtainka 2022-10-05 16:25

Was a little bit hard to find out that Dmitri needs to sleep that you can drop the gems into the crusher to get more energy. And I don't really get what the game has to do with the theme. But graphics and gameplay is nice.

martin183 2022-10-05 20:05

Cool game, sound would have been nice. Holding down the mouse was a bit tiresome when playing on laptop witout mouse.

Also funny that the game shows local currency.

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