Digbot Dash by Christian Scandariato

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made by Christian Scandariato for LD30 (COMPO)
My very first Ludum Dare game, Digbot Dash!

Controls: Arrow Keys to Move
Any Arrow Key + Space Bar to dig in the selected direction.

Please play, comment, vote, and most of all enjoy!

All assets created by Christian Scandariato for the purposes of this gamejam.

Ratings

Coolness 79% 2
Overall 3.34 418
Audio 2.41 706
Fun 3.59 156
Graphics 2.91 683
Humor 3.00 204
Innovation 2.49 999
Mood 2.97 568
Theme 1.64 1184

Feedback

principlesofplay
24. Aug 2014 · 23:53 UTC
Great submission Christian. That lava scared the crap out of me! lol
EMAK
25. Aug 2014 · 08:32 UTC
Nice game, very fun!
yodamaster
25. Aug 2014 · 14:50 UTC
I think I've seen this type of game before ...
SaintHeiser
25. Aug 2014 · 14:52 UTC
Is this game one button killing? And how it using the theme?
NikSG
25. Aug 2014 · 14:53 UTC
my digbot dug and dashed. fun stuff
dusho
25. Aug 2014 · 14:53 UTC
that lava came as real surprise.. it cost me 2 lives to realize what is going on.. turned into real keyboard smasher.. fun
uvwar
25. Aug 2014 · 14:53 UTC
I blew up!
lkr
25. Aug 2014 · 17:59 UTC
Pretty hectic after the first few levels, but I had fun playing :)
TrickFishPie
26. Aug 2014 · 18:54 UTC
Nice to play this. Wasn't easy once that giant turkish rug thing came for me :)
TowelKing
26. Aug 2014 · 18:56 UTC
Digbot and his full range of robot emotions really brought this game to life
vulpineblazeyt
26. Aug 2014 · 18:58 UTC
This was really awesome! I liked the concept and the lava was properly terrifying lol. Excellent work!
bluemaroo3
26. Aug 2014 · 19:08 UTC
I do like a bit of Mania in my games and this certainly provided it.
However I may have to charge you for keyboard replacement :P
Great game and lots of fun (and lava)
01010111
26. Aug 2014 · 19:17 UTC
Very fun! The end of the first level had me enraged!!! Good work :D
TeamQuadratic
27. Aug 2014 · 05:55 UTC
Fun, frantic gameplay, but pretty difficult. The lava also starts really quickly and if you aren't expecting it you are basically screwed on your first playthrough.
ninjascript
27. Aug 2014 · 06:00 UTC
Super-fun game! As soon as I saw the lava I just started furiously tapping the spacebar hoping to outrun it. Took a couple of tries, but I made it!
Endurion
27. Aug 2014 · 06:01 UTC
Very good game, really frantic. It's a tad annoying that you have to start all over again once all lives are gone. The fifth stage did me in (the one with the bombs).

Completely non themed though :)
buckslice
27. Aug 2014 · 06:04 UTC
Quite fun and had me playing a while. Trying to dig up though is pretty difficult, and couldn't get past level 4 or so because of this. Also don't really see how this is related to the theme at all but whatever lol. Nice game
Skywilly
27. Aug 2014 · 06:11 UTC
Great game, really fun ;)
🎤 Christian Scandariato
27. Aug 2014 · 06:20 UTC
Thanks for the feedback, everyone!

I tried to connect the theme within the story/title cards in that Digbot was moving through an old connected tunnel of two worlds, but I can absolutely see how that doesn't come through enough for true thematics. Definitely something I'll keep in mind for my second LD!
DDFranky
27. Aug 2014 · 09:58 UTC
Nice game! I had to stop playing because otherwise my spacebar will sue me. Is it me or there is no audio on this game?
Quetzakol
27. Aug 2014 · 10:00 UTC
Cool game :) I destroyed my space button, but it was fun, though a bit too difficult. I would have finished the game if I had unlimited lives.
FeYbraNt
27. Aug 2014 · 10:48 UTC
Nice game ! I like it and that lava puts the game even more interesting.
Axebane
27. Aug 2014 · 15:06 UTC
Nice game! The lava stage was pretty intense!
hogtrick
27. Aug 2014 · 22:39 UTC
Pretty nice game. Lava is scare though. >_<
Amvere
28. Aug 2014 · 03:11 UTC
Best game I have played yet! Very nice job. This is legitimately fun to play!
Lokarunith
29. Aug 2014 · 00:15 UTC
I dig it, those levels hard as rock, but Digibot should have paper drills to dig faster xD

now seriousley, great game, the visuals are simple but effective and the levels are really well designed and the parts with text really add deepness to the game.
Stan Sypek
31. Aug 2014 · 21:11 UTC
Seems to be a dropbox error so I can't play now. Bookmarking for later because I want to try this one.
🎤 Christian Scandariato
01. Sep 2014 · 18:44 UTC
Dropbox link (Web) should be working now. Added a Game Jolt link as well just in case!
Stan Sypek
04. Sep 2014 · 01:40 UTC
Dat Lava! Had me racing like a madman. Glad I came back to this one, this was a lot of fun.
Z.B.G.E.
08. Sep 2014 · 17:33 UTC
At first it doesn't seem like much, but the buttom smashing, retro looks and fast decision taking made this thing really fun to play, congrats!

The story didn't make much sense to me (seems like a few words were missing?), but he's a Digbot so whatever he says as long as he digs ;) Good level design too.