Had a lot of fun with this game! Cool mechanics, nice graphics and chippy NES music. I also really enjoyed letting the lava flow while still inside the tunnels and racing out, obviously kinda reckless but added some more danger! Good job.

@fluidvolt Thanks a lot! im so glad you liked it! And yes running from the lava is pretty fun haha. thats why i kept it moving at the speed it does

That actually really fun - great selection of levels, neat concept, cool!

Awesome game ! Like the chip tune !

Really liked this game! Great mechanics / level design. Nice graphics. Sound would have been nice, but its completely excusable because of the time limit.

Great job, the music was awesome and, as the comment before this one said, I enjoyed racing the lava out!

Takes a while to get going, but I basically enjoy bopping around

Not gonna lie. The music is the best part of this. Fun and interesting game, though!

Wow thanks for all the awesome comments! I'm really glad you all love the music! Music is definitely one of the hardest parts for me, so that's really encouraging!
:D

Sweet!

Cool concept and nice looking art, dug the music and SFX too! I wish I could dig a little faster, though :)

Great puzzle game. One of my favorites so far

Great game, and as a few people said, racing the lava out was fun. Music was great, but it definitely took a while to get to more challenging levels.

Very creative mechanic! I wanted to do a digging game but couldn't really come up with anything this cool. Really like the music too. Nice job :)

Fun one! Great job introducing concepts.

Really fun game. I filled the sky with lava, who knew?

fun puzzle-y game! fun dialogue/tutorial too. music is good, gets a little repetitive after a while.

thanks a lot guys! Yeah it could be a little faster, and i tweaked the speed a lot. unfortunately, the speed of block-breaking will boil down to how fast the character moves from one block to another, and that would mean the character moves too fast to control for some.
:D glad you all like it!

What a fantastic puzzle game! I love the water and lava physics.

Nice game. Lots of levels to play through too. Reminded me (in the good way) of some of the NES puzzle games like Fire & Ice. Also, Nic's double-fist punch is super cute.

@ghostmaple AAaahh wow fire 'n' ice is an amazing game! I was mainly basing it (at least the collision and digging) around DigDug.
and thank you! hehe. he is very proud of his boulderfists

It took about 2 hours, but I got through all 32 levels. Really good challenge and had a lot of fun playing. Found two things in the game that I think are bugs though. first I got the impression that you are supposed to save the babies, however you can still complete a level even if you kill them so long as the babies die before the lava flows out the volcano. Second, and more serious, you can let the lava leak out to the surface through a non-volcano hole and still win the level so long as you hide in water while the lava flows. It looks like you are checking to make sure 'Nic didn't touch lava and not did the lava rise above the surface level. Despite that I avoided the exploits and had a blast playing through the game.

very nice mechanics!! Its very promissing and fun to play!

Well done!

Also, I just replied you on my game page =]

@dalbinblue AAAAAAA I am literally ecstatic that you took the time to beat my game! You are my idol I bow to you.
This just made my whole week. I don't think anyone has ever beaten a game of mine.
I'm so glad you enjoyed it!
Also thanks for pointing those out. I can definitely see why those are happening (you are right). And I'm even more honored that you actually beat the levels legit despite knowing those exploits! Holy crap man

My brother and sat there and worked on the puzzles for a long time. There was much cursing but we were really happy to get through it all. Fantastic game. You should consider polishing it up and releasing a post competition version.

Really nice! And so many levels *o*

@dalbinblue I might just do that then! I also had an idea for a sequel just because I had a cool idea for a game about digging and falling down endlessly trying to escape safely. And I already got something like it!

@kill0u thanks! Yeah I was really rushing in the last few hours because I decided it was a good idea to add 3 new block types, and I needed to design a few levels for each.

Extremely fun and lots of levels, very good job!

I really enjoyed this game :) Well designed and thought out thanks for making me look bad :D

Interesting idea, but toooooooo slow =(

I really enjoyed it, great concept! And the music was good too. I don't know why but i liked the character too, great game :D

Really interesting idea for a puzzle and nice use of the theme. Congrats on this (and neat level design!)

Really great puzzle game! Would gain a lot though if you could speed up the movements!

Awesome little puzzler! Great work! You should add a timer to each level to keep score.

really liked this one!

Really nice puzzle game and a great interpretation of the theme.

Level 8: dig into the earth beside the volcano, push the second block away to let the water flow all over the bottom, push second block back in to stop the water next to the bombs, hide in the water... blow the bombs and chuckle as the sky turns red :D

"Bro" kind of assumes your player is male.

Nice and fun game, but a little too slow paced, for me...

Sweet puzzle game! You used well the ld theme

Thanks a lot guys!
@Gazok Bro, Nic is a god damned rock. He can barely see as it is, he has no idea who you are.

Also he is totally radical gnarly and doesn't give a hoot

Fiendishly clever puzzle. No matter how I look at it, level 11 doesn't look beatable.

Not one "ingenious" pun? SMH, commenters.

Loved it! So fun

A nice, fun, well-polished puzzle game.

Very nice puzzle design. At first I thought it's a standard and basic thing but then the water and other mechanics eventually changed everything and made it sometimes a dynamic game (I'm almost sure I've completed those levels not how it was intended!). I was under impression sometimes that the level could be completed in at least few ways. For example, I've completed level 11 without using space button and while stuck in obsidian deep underground (I've dug a way for lava myself and then hid in water) but I'm not quite sure it was intended that way. Even though I didn't come up with another way to complete that level. Anyway, you've succeeded in creating easy to learn game this time, and it's definitely hard to master for me. Will play more and see if I can finish it all!

Completed the game, it was lots of fun. Some levels were too easy to beat though, probably because you didn't realize that there's an easier solution than the designed one during the short cycle of game development. As such, the two challenge levels are almost the easiest ones in the whole game (except the earliest levels and tutorial levels), I've completed both in under 1 minute by moving only 1-2 blocks (hint: sensor-drains are overpowered, you can move them almost anywhere easily to block lava flow where you need it).

Nice puzzles.

well done, wow, lots of levels (i only managed 1 for my game) seems like its ready to be shipped on a mobile device :)

I spent so much time on this game !

Was a lot of fun to play. Sometimes it was hard to read the tutorial text on the blue background (for me), but this is just a minor thing. While I like the overall style, the player character graphic doesn't fit in that well. Very nice puzzles (and so many, wow!).

@mortus wow! Thanks a lot for taking so much interest in my game to best it! :D yes I realize now how easy it is to win on unintentional conditions, I thought I designed it well enough that that couldn't happen, but 2 bugs are in place which allow that. If you can still win in the non-intended way on the updated version, then oh well. But thank you for the insightful feedback!

@rest thanks a lot! I'm so glad so many people enjoyed this!

Very cool game mecanism. Game smoothly increase in difficulty (great job that you introduce new mecanisms one by one). Nice effort in the mini tutorial.
IMHO it could be a bit faster to dig, that digging time kills a bit the play fun (first levels are obvious).

This is actually pretty clever and fresh take on good old sokoban. I've had fun with this.. Music is maybe little annoying after while or maybe it's just me.. :-D Good job.

The early levels were pretty easy, but it starts getting really hard at 10. I couldn't figure out how to beat it, so I can't get to the rest of the levels in the level select. If it's a matter of timing the water break, I can't seem to get it right, and I don't see any other way of doing it.

@csanyk ah cmon you can do it! keep in mind, water and lava move at the same speed. count the blocks itll take for each to get to where they need to go.

@all thanks!

Wow this is brilliant! You've made an incredible number of really interesting puzzles. I am definitely coming back to this game.

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