cjh 2025-04-08 01:18
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Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD57 → Deep Shaft Mining
By cjh
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 3.40 | 7 | ||
| Fun | 2.90 | 7 | ||
| Innovation | 2.90 | 7 | ||
| Theme | 3.90 | 7 | ||
| Graphics | 3.10 | 7 | ||
| Audio | 2.62 | 6 | ||
| Humor | 3.50 | 7 | ||
| Mood | 3.50 | 7 |
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Overall a mechanically-sound game with humorous dialogue. With a little bit of polish, this game has tons of potential.
Some notes I took during gameplay: - Collision could be expanded for objects to prevent clipping. - While throwing the objects is rather funny, a mechanic to put them down would likely be better for a fast-paced game like this. - Objects which fall on each-other sometimes seem to clip through the floor and are lost. A similar problem exists with slimes pushing ore into the ground. - Highlighting for the various objects in the tutorial would likely help to ease the player into the gameplay loop. - The tools can be thrown behind the machines, making it hard to grab them. - The hover detection for held ore to be put into the furnace is a little strict, sometimes making it hard to actually insert it without throwing it. Separate buttons for interaction and throwing would likely work just fine. - Multiple ore put into the furnace is not processed as multiple items. - The rapid-falling animation is very well done, but also exposes some of the items which have been pushed beneath the elevator.
Best of luck in your future work!
So many texts in my opinion 😬 Also need to make control more comfortable, Take and throw the objects on the one mouse button (left I think)
This is a fun idea, game has potential and jokes are good, but the loop feels always the same, it goes fast really early and the pace of the game is hard to find. Also if we could just put the tools on the floor instead of throwing em, it could help a lot on the pace of the player haha. good job ! =)