Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD57 → oroBOREos
By whirlwind, matthew545, Nathaniel Kaplan, Paul_31415 and KingMaharg
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 403 | 3.60 | 21 | |
| Fun | 317 | 3.55 | 21 | |
| Innovation | 422 | 3.26 | 21 | |
| Theme | 200 | 4.05 | 21 | |
| Graphics | 645 | 3.18 | 21 | |
| Humor | 393 | 2.91 | 20 | |
| Mood | 689 | 3.13 | 21 |
Maybe I have an issue playing the game, but the background and the gamefield is empty and blue, while I can see the UI and the player. The controler is reversed as well, but doesn't feel weird, so that ok =) Sad I couldn't experience the game ='(
Fun! I kept exploding at the beginning, so I appreciated the upgrades. I love the little snake buddy in the capsule art.
Some neat ideas here, I think the "salvage" % is a little confusing until you see the first salvage amount upgrade, and eventually it feels like I'm running out of (ore? fuel? Yellow) in range of my initial starting point which feels like a little bit of a soft lock ending.
Really fun and addictive game ! I sometimes failed to understand why i died but i came coming back for more so great job !
It took me a bit to figure out I needed to go back to the surface to avoid exploding. A "how to play" would help clarify that. The controls, however, felt very intuitive. I usually find this type of gameplay really fun. The game needs some polish, but it works well as it is. Well done!
Really fun! It was a bit confusing at first (I didn't even know you were supposed to return to the surface until I came back to the page after playing a bunch and just dying underground every time 😅) but *very* addicting nonetheless. I never quite fully got used to the controls being backwards while going down, though I recognize thinking through it logically that there's not really a great way to do this with 2 buttons from a fixed perspective. Maybe having it follow the mouse cursor would work better? Or maybe you could add a steering wheel to visually clarify right=clockwise left=counterclockwise. Anyways, good game!
A fun game guys! Excelent work here!
Weird, all I see is blue background. I don't see anything else. Using Chrome, tried both the LD version and the itch version.
This was super fun! I'm not sure if the world is randomly generated or not, but this feels like it could be one of those early flash-era roguelike games that suck up kids' time during computer lab, if you know what I'm saying. Very impressive work! I did get a bit of fatigue with the game as it ramped into the end-game - everything after Move Speed I feels like it needs a price rebalance. Additionally, I know it's kind of a key mechanic, but it feels really bad to get a 2-3k run in, and then lose 80 percent of the yield to the oroboreos barely nicking a stray rock. Additionally, it becomes really really hard to extract a decent run if you do crash multiple times - since the ore doesn't regenerate, it's very easy to pidgenhole yourself into a situation where you'll get stuck broke. However, that said, I overall though the game was very fun! The movement system, upgrades, and visual style were all super slick and fantastic, and I really enjoyed playing this one. Well done, congrats!
The first turn speed update turned this from super diffucult to easy a bit too fast :smile: But otherwise enjoyed the entry! Was fun when you found some big gold junk
Same @deruitda Tried in MS Edge as well to see if it was Chrome and same issue, so not just Chrome
Great game! The start is a bit slow, but after that it really ramp up. Art is nice, sound effect is a bit repetitive. Also, it took me a while to get use to controls, since you start down and they are from snake perspective (which do makes sense, but takes time to adjust). But after that it was smooth sailing. Great job with the game!
So good! Kept making me go "just one more time" again and again. I really like that there's no life system; blowing up and losing a lot of your haul is punishment enough. Would've been horrible if I'd have to restart completely.
I got the bug with the blue background too on my Windows machine, but luckily it worked on my Mac.
I see you opted out of audio so I assume it's not your own music but it fits well. Has slight Dune vibes which fits the digging wormy thing.
Neat combo of recognisable mechanics.
The graphics are really nice and polished. The generated stuff looks great and it's satisfying to pick up gold and get the little dusty particles.
Fun to get upgrades. Since I already knew about the speed control from reading the page before playing I felt I had to at least keep playing until I got that one but I was some 40 minutes in by then probably so I didn't play much more after that, had to move on :') But I certainly could've! Quite addicting.
Steering felt pretty good, then with some speed upgrades it got perilous, and then the speed control finally made things really nice.
Really, really nice work!