Zombie Miner by elefantopia

made by elefantopia for LD30 (JAM)

You like Minecraft? Lava? Zombies? But crafting is too much of a headache?

Well, I've concocted something just for you, it's called Zombie Miner.

You land in the World of Minecraft.
You have 200 seconds to build your Dwarven fortress/farm house/chateau
before zombies start spawning and, using the power of their rotting brain, pursue you restlessly.
And don't you let them merge into a gargantuan Mega Zombiiiie.

[1] to select pickaxe, [2-9] to select block, left click to carve or build

NOTE: all credit for the terrain go to the creator of Cubic World API made by dddenisss35@gmail.com
You can see his thing over there: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQqmsbP1J3I and yep it's got L-System structure making, brilliant uh?

Web	http://www.mcdroidgame.com/files/ZombieMiner/ZombieMiner.html
Original URL	https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-30/?action=preview&uid=37031

Ratings

Coolness	92%	2
Overall(Jam)	2.85	617

Audio(Jam)	2.44	554
Fun(Jam)	2.78	533
Graphics(Jam)	3.24	441
Humor(Jam)	2.48	352
Innovation(Jam)	1.89	753
Mood(Jam)	2.74	569
Theme(Jam)	1.80	747

Feedback

diamondgfx

25. Aug 2014 · 14:41 UTC

The game runs but it doesn't seem to let me control/move at all.

artifex

26. Aug 2014 · 00:26 UTC

Cool game and graphics, but maybe too much time to explore before zombies arrive. BTW, how do you use the inventory system?

psychomonster

27. Aug 2014 · 19:31 UTC

Cooooooool.... the evel twin of minecraft. Nice entry. Cool gameplay

🎤 elefantopia

27. Aug 2014 · 22:35 UTC

@diamond, click on the screen maybe?
@ arti, right click but I'm planing on changing that to left click and choice between digging and a few resources
@psycho thanks

🎤 elefantopia

27. Aug 2014 · 22:50 UTC

@arti, I agree, I changed the wait time to 200 and the delay between new zombies to 50 with a cap at 100 zombies.

insane66

27. Aug 2014 · 23:42 UTC

MINECRAFT VS DWARF FORTTRESS

🎤 elefantopia

28. Aug 2014 · 06:26 UTC

I added a selection of blocks so you can build with left click and select the block with number

egor-idiot

29. Aug 2014 · 16:50 UTC

Very good. Interesing.

dook

30. Aug 2014 · 23:40 UTC

Nice little minecraft clone, but not much game in it :)

vividhelix

31. Aug 2014 · 00:49 UTC

Oh no, they merged into a huge zombie :)

mysterycjgamer

31. Aug 2014 · 01:13 UTC

oh! A minecraft clone!
Nice job on that, ran smoother than Minecraft.

andrewkennedy

31. Aug 2014 · 01:42 UTC

The graphics were really nice and I like the idea of the game. I just build a giant lava cube though and the zombies couldn't get me. Maybe consider putting some kind of rudimentary liquid system for the lava would make it harder to cheese the game like this. Or some sort of objective so that walling yourself off is a bad thing!

Rehacked

31. Aug 2014 · 07:11 UTC

Good game.

AmmoreChicks

31. Aug 2014 · 13:02 UTC

Impressive game but... how does it fit the theme?

kibertoad

31. Aug 2014 · 14:27 UTC

Impressive from a technical standpoint, entirely disconnected from theme, could be expanded in a complete fleshed-out game. Plays quite well.

HayManMarc

31. Aug 2014 · 19:02 UTC

I've never played minecraft so I was unfamiliar with this. It seemed kinda pointless, but I guess that's how minecraft is. Everything seemed to work the way it was supposed to.

bluesky

31. Aug 2014 · 20:44 UTC

Nice game Love the gameplay.

jukimv1986

01. Sep 2014 · 01:51 UTC

I saved myself from the zombies by making a hole in the world and falling undefinitely. Nice map!

🎤 elefantopia

01. Sep 2014 · 07:14 UTC

@Juki I want to see that, you crazy ... person (see how I steer clear of the gender debate?)

moi93101

01. Sep 2014 · 14:54 UTC

The idea is cool, but it's easy to "cheat". More stricts rules can improve that !

whilefun

01. Sep 2014 · 16:13 UTC

Zombie sounds were pretty cool, and the countdown timer "clack" was creepy.

Ted Brown

01. Sep 2014 · 21:14 UTC

Full points for using a wacky API to basically build a Minecraft arcade game. You'd get double or triple if you actually put more gameplay in there. :)

KingBolonzo

02. Sep 2014 · 00:04 UTC

This seems better than minecraft I HATE THAT GAME!!

Mallot1

02. Sep 2014 · 02:23 UTC

Very cool game! :D

SoulGame

02. Sep 2014 · 15:44 UTC

Impressive work but not sure about the theme?

kristof

08. Sep 2014 · 13:59 UTC

Would be a great mod for mc;) Or does it already exist? There could be some gameplay improvements, but it's fun already.

🎤 elefantopia

09. Sep 2014 · 07:11 UTC

@kristof, A cube world MC level with zombies where you can terraform? ohhh... :D

Natrium729

11. Sep 2014 · 23:55 UTC

I tried to play it, but I could not build a shelter. I think it's because I do not have a numpad, so I cannot choose the blocks I want to use. You should allow to use the numbers at the top of the keyboard too. Too bad I could't play!

awesomeusername

13. Sep 2014 · 19:12 UTC

Nice-looking Minecraft clone, looks very nice.

Gameplay could use some work, though, I think, since it's not hard to make it impossible for the zombies to get you.