egor-ae-game 2025-10-06 00:47
@avhatar I like how the camera is positioned, the character style, and the animation!
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD58 → Coal Lector
By avhatar
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 103 | 3.41 | 26 | |
| Fun | 143 | 3.08 | 27 | |
| Innovation | 128 | 3.12 | 27 | |
| Theme | 28 | 4.06 | 26 | |
| Graphics | 25 | 4.20 | 27 | |
| Audio | 60 | 3.54 | 24 | |
| Humor | 75 | 3.18 | 24 | |
| Mood | 23 | 4.06 | 26 |
@avhatar I like how the camera is positioned, the character style, and the animation!
Great job with the SFX, art style, lighting, and animation! I really enjoyed it. The one thing I wish I could do is rotate the camera around (if there's a way to do this it either didn't work or I couldn't figure it out). Otherwise, it's tricky to pick up things on the ground that fall behind other things. Nice work!
Interesting premisse, the coal is very talkative. Like the pixel-3D artstyle a lot.
An interesting take on the "digger" genre. Fun graphics and sound. The coal definitely thinks a bit too highly of itself.
Graphics is a wow
Funny play on words and a nice initial surprise that it was still about collecting even though I first thought you side-stepped the theme with the name. This looks very cool, a unique artstyle and well handled lighting. I wish the items that dropped were highlighted when not visible but cool little game beyond that. Good work!
good game, art style with sfx looks kinda eerie, 5/5 on mood word-play is on point
I love this vibe so much! Great job!
I like the way this game looks.
Great title and interpretation of the theme! The graphics are utterly charming; I'd love to play a full game in this style
@artalasky, @hexela, @kenneth-gibson, @xahon, @bereg, @pres2300,@egor-ae-game, @torte478 thanks. The main issue with this render pipeline is that it doesn’t build for WebGL =( But you can get pixel art without pixel creep kinda easy.
heat.png **I hate being cold ! :laughing:**
*It's ok I just got a bug, where picking coal wasn't making it disppearing, so I was just able infinite grab it. There is also some clipping with the heat zone with the camera once it's too big (around 10 coals I would say ?)*
Aside from these small (and funny) bugs, wow great game ! I think it has great potential, I would absolutely see this as a small horror game where digging deeper into the world would uncover some dark secrets, with this ambiance and art style, I'm sure that it would be a great experience.
Great work !
Amazing original concept!.
I loved the atmosphere / mood on this one! Congrats!
The coal lector must be desperate when he saw the fact that there's no extrication but a certain death.
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There's a clever sidestep to theme interpretation, but this coal mining simulator has the mood about depression of real work.
I like the visuals, good work!
@akuta-zehy Did I get it right — you actually dug yourself a tunnel and reached the edge of the map? I honestly didn’t expect anyone to do that, so I put quite a lot of blocks there, thinking no one would ever dig that far =)
It's a good game, but it's a shame you can't open it in your browser, you have to download it.
@nexyisan agreed, but this render pipeline doesn’t allow building for WebGL =(
Was blown away by the visuals of the game, amazing work on the polish and mood! An interesting take on the theme as well. Was expecting to be able to sell coal at the start but I guess people above are *really* invested in rocks. Overall, great job on this entry, really enjoyed the experience!
Classical using of the theme, but the level design and the mechanics work well. The main aesthetic is clever - something which reminds us of the old PS1. I really enjoyed gathering/collecting items in the game. Sounds are great - exactly what I would like to hear in a game with these graphics. Well done. Thank you for your review for my own project. I wish you the best ++
Nice! I especially like the visuals and the visual style that you got there! There could have some improvements to the lights, to avoid seeing it leave the 2D layer of the universe of the game. Other than that I think it was perfect!
The gameplay is simple, and at the same time you want to go a bit further to find more different stuff, so it keeps being entertaining!
On the downside, I think you could have avoided to use the word "Fuck" too often. It felt like it was an easy way to show the frustration of the character and set a negative mood, but instead it pulled me out of the atmosphere you were building, and it felt misplaced in comparison to the "cute" visuals of the game. I think I would have prefered the message had it been delivered in a more humourous or subtle way.
Overall, good game!
Simple but satisfying mechanics, shows "how much you don't need too much". Also dig the visual choices made, although having coal fall out of sight making you dig around it to pick up was unpleasant at times. But this camera and sounds of digging, man It threw me back some twenty five years back, playing Dungeon Keeper, low-key brought tear to my eye, thank you.
Nice game. I played until a point I found an infinite piece of coal. The game is good but I would have wanted clearer objectives. I did not know if I had to achieve a quota. The graphics are simple but good however some block were hiding other pieces of coal dropped. Screenshot_2025-10-23_22-36-28.png By the way, the talking coals XD were funny. The was a point however that I just stopped reading