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Dark Moles! by ninjascript

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made by ninjascript for LD29 (JAM)
Dark Moles was built with PhaserJS by a team of two developers (thanks Ben!) and an awesome illustrator (thanks Jessie!). The premise is pretty simple -- whack-a-mole with bombs!

This was the first time any of us had built a game, much less in 48 hours, and it was a total blast. We'll definitely be participating in #30!

Source:
https://github.com/ninjascribble/LudumDare-29

Tools:
PhaserJS: http://phaser.io
SFXr: http://www.drpetter.se/project_sfxr.html
Littera: http://kvazars.com/littera

Resources:
Kenney Donation Pack: http://kenney.itch.io/kenney-donation
Web (HTML5) http://afternoon-bayou-2638.herokuapp.com/
Source https://github.com/ninjascribble/LudumDare-29
Original URL https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-29/?action=preview&uid=35875

Ratings

Coolness 85% 2
Overall(Jam) 2.98 509
Audio(Jam) 2.13 610
Fun(Jam) 2.96 401
Graphics(Jam) 3.85 187
Humor(Jam) 2.76 297
Innovation(Jam) 2.70 506
Mood(Jam) 2.55 624
Theme(Jam) 3.21 344

Feedback

pancakecity
28. Apr 2014 · 20:00 UTC
Those moles are evil!! Good game!
Nelly
28. Apr 2014 · 22:50 UTC
Nice!! But it's too hard at my mind) Moles must die)))
BallpointPress
29. Apr 2014 · 05:59 UTC
I'm trying to branch out from diving games. I almost made a game like this but it was going to be horrible lovecraftian worms and such bursting forth and you'd have to burn them. Then I realized that was a huge part of the terrible ALONE IN THE DARK remake from 2008 which I bought for full price. Ugh!
GertJohnny
29. Apr 2014 · 06:00 UTC
I do enjoy a good mole bombing every once in a while. I couldn't figure out where the hitboxes were on those darn moles though, i'd see it explode right overtop of them, but they kept on living.
atlantian
29. Apr 2014 · 06:20 UTC
Well done
Xeke_Death
29. Apr 2014 · 08:34 UTC
I got to level 3, walked into my own bomb and got spat on... Oh well, at least I blew up some moles on the way...
Game looks great...!
pandavigoureux
29. Apr 2014 · 08:41 UTC
Nice graphics. If I could give an advice, you should think about mapping the arrows for moving next time, because AZERTY players also exist :)
Lucariatias
29. Apr 2014 · 21:34 UTC
Very, hard, couldn't pass the second level. ALso, very repetitive and not very original.
That said, for a first game it's pretty decent.
mrbungle
29. Apr 2014 · 21:35 UTC
Come on little girl, kill those evil, green spit flinging underground dwellers! Liking the graphics.
🎤 ninjascript
29. Apr 2014 · 21:49 UTC
@pandavigoureux, sorry about that! We'll definitely include alternate control schemes in all our future games.
Gins
29. Apr 2014 · 22:55 UTC
Very hard, but a cool idea :) Whack-the-Mole, I have played a million times, but Bomb-The-Mole is new :)
RyotaRaven55
30. Apr 2014 · 04:07 UTC
Nice game! but kinda tricky.
Nocturnal
30. Apr 2014 · 06:29 UTC
Nice graphics
zedutchgandalf
30. Apr 2014 · 07:23 UTC
This gets hard really fast :P
Looks great though!
VanMerwan
30. Apr 2014 · 08:01 UTC
Nice art. The hitbox of the character is maybe too big.
Baknik
01. May 2014 · 04:29 UTC
It was a bit hard to figure out where the bomb would land, but great job overall!
javifugitivo
02. May 2014 · 00:06 UTC
Nice graphics!
mark.goetz
03. May 2014 · 18:01 UTC
Hey, congrats on completing your first game (this was my first LD as well)! The artwork is really good, and I especially love the mole popping in and out animation. I think it's a little frustrating to time the bomb explosion to when I thought a mole would appear. I was essentially throwing bombs at random. But you did a good job with scaling the difficulty - one mole, then several moles on one side of you, then moles all over.
stvr
04. May 2014 · 03:19 UTC
That adorable paraplegic is really vicious towards those moles!
MaesK
04. May 2014 · 12:38 UTC
Nice whack-a-mole! Bombs can fix everything everywhere in gaming :D

I got confused with controls, I didn't thought you can control the direction of bombs with the mouse position, so the moles defeated me easily. Now I'll make them pay.

Good work!
matthias_zarzecki
06. May 2014 · 16:31 UTC
Love the character-design :D
psychonull
07. May 2014 · 01:36 UTC
Liked having that delay in the bomb to explode. Level 3 is really hard!
gre
10. May 2014 · 20:46 UTC
Great concept! Nice improvement of the original whack-a-mole.
Very cool that the bomb can also kill your player and is part of the gameplay, you didn't miss that :-) And mole are firing snot! nice :-P
Graphics are sweet.
end3r
18. May 2014 · 14:09 UTC
Firt level is too easy, the second one is crazy! Really nice looking game