Water Miner by elefantopia

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made by elefantopia for LD29 (JAM)
A Zen game about digging and surviving hunger.
Dig and it saps water, walk and it saps food.
Water comes from trees, food comes from earth in the form of chicken legs.
If you gather 1,000,000 pink diamonds, you get something special.

Ratings

Coolness 100% 1
Overall(Jam) 3.41 237
Audio(Jam) 3.18 317
Fun(Jam) 3.04 341
Graphics(Jam) 4.31 66
Humor(Jam) 3.38 112
Innovation(Jam) 3.18 295
Mood(Jam) 3.14 321
Theme(Jam) 3.24 334

Feedback

oatsbarley
28. Apr 2014 路 14:07 UTC
Just so you know, there aren't any links to builds/players. Makes it tough to vote for! ;)
Jacques_le_lezard
28. Apr 2014 路 18:05 UTC
Haha yes you forgot something ^^ (but it already looks great)
馃帳 elefantopia
28. Apr 2014 路 19:28 UTC
Haha thanks guys, I missed this bit: (Don't forget the http://)
Softwave
28. Apr 2014 路 20:03 UTC
I love this. I especially love the graphics and the whole "aesthetic", the game has. And the drilling/morphable terrain thing is rad.
DustyStylus
28. Apr 2014 路 20:08 UTC
Hehe, curious! Beautiful graphics and nice aesthetic, as mentioned. I got stuck in a big hole... went a bit crazy with the digging. @__@
FyberOptic
28. Apr 2014 路 20:09 UTC
The graphics are gorgeous, and I really like the destructible terrain. Nice work!
Xangotrick66
28. Apr 2014 路 20:09 UTC
Loved them sound effects, and the graphics are very nice!
longshorts
28. Apr 2014 路 20:13 UTC
The graphics are gorgeous, and the mining mechanic is nice and simple (although it took me a little while to figure out how to get food). However what really sold this to me was the sound effects, which sounds like they were all done with your voice! Max humor rating!
gwa
28. Apr 2014 路 20:16 UTC
Wow it looks great!
ccglp
28. Apr 2014 路 20:20 UTC
Sound effects so fucking wonderful xD
pawegio
28. Apr 2014 路 20:39 UTC
Looks really good! Love this hexagon grass. Hey, I would love to make such graphics, respect. :)
Geckoo1337
28. Apr 2014 路 21:32 UTC
Like said our friend Jacques - you forgot (again) something - I have passed through the ground. In fact I didn't know this is possible to generate a ground like this with unity. It's a great concept... but with many bugs ++
Dominator_101
28. Apr 2014 路 22:00 UTC
Those sound effects are awesome!
SevenKingdomsSurvivors
29. Apr 2014 路 05:28 UTC
Pretty funny sound effects. Graphics looked great!
largerhinde
29. Apr 2014 路 05:32 UTC
Sweet game! From the sounds (especially "bling, bling")to the beautiful graphics (even as you're breaking the environment) to the easy mining control. Awesomeness!
ioboi
29. Apr 2014 路 17:50 UTC
Wow, nice game!
The art style is beautiful :)
Sim00n
30. Apr 2014 路 03:22 UTC
Wow a lot of work put into this. Digging underground is trippy but I like it. This game needs some purpose though. Overall a good job.
Jonochrome
30. Apr 2014 路 08:57 UTC
*HOFF CHOMP chomp chomp*
Scruffylooking
01. May 2014 路 03:23 UTC
"Take that, Tree!" Very fun to dig and try to get out.
kirbytails7
01. May 2014 路 03:24 UTC
Very pretty, and it's fun to be able to dig so fast. I did notice a bug where you can stand close enough to a wall and dig at it without destroying it, so you can get lots of food and gems very easily.
kmakai
01. May 2014 路 03:32 UTC
Great job, amazing what can get done in so little time!
Dietrich Epp
01. May 2014 路 04:12 UTC
Enjoyable but not challenging.
BMacIntosh
01. May 2014 路 04:47 UTC
This is great! It didn't grab my mouse, though, which made it a bit annoying to play.
blockbot
01. May 2014 路 13:16 UTC
The art is really nice.
Yword
03. May 2014 路 13:40 UTC
Very cool idea and implementation! Well done!
yourlittlehelper
03. May 2014 路 19:15 UTC
Awesome game. But the fps is very low, could be just an internet problem. But its is amazing, beautiful and a clever concept
mrexcessive
03. May 2014 路 20:02 UTC
Hi. Interesting idea. Like the detail texture and the sounds. Made a huge tunnel!
MintArcade
04. May 2014 路 21:13 UTC
Very enjoyable. Nice deformation algorithm. Very funny audio - like it very much.
Rick Hoppmann
04. May 2014 路 22:24 UTC
Unity webplayer does not work on Linux OS.
Feel free to drop me a tweet @tinyworlds (or award me a trophy here if you haven't Twitter) if you publish this to Linux ;)
Christina Antoinette Neofotistou
06. May 2014 路 21:43 UTC
Incredible graphics and mood! I'm sure it' a feat of engineering too, I'm not even smart enough to understand how you did it. Drilling is absolutely responsive and very fun to do!
csanyk
07. May 2014 路 00:46 UTC
Graphics are really beautiful. Sound effects don't really fit, but are humorous I guess. Not too much gameplay, though. The deformable ground is very cool.
Ragzouken
07. May 2014 路 15:24 UTC
The graphics are awesome, love the mosaic effect!
jsmars
07. May 2014 路 15:24 UTC
Nice job really good looking game :)
pikkpoiss
10. May 2014 路 05:34 UTC
Wow, what a gorgeous game. I really dug the texture work and it looks way more polished than it should be given the short time frame. The digging seemed cool, unfortunately it ran relatively choppily on a Mac Air (underpowered, I know) so it was tough to play. Loved the sound effects though :)
GeorgeBroussard
10. May 2014 路 06:34 UTC
Graphics and tech are nice. Something to really build on post compo. Sound effects cracked me up :)
XenosNS
10. May 2014 路 17:42 UTC
Love the home made sound effects! Looks great too. Bit confusing to move around in the small window.
Moosefly
11. May 2014 路 00:23 UTC
Sound effects are very lulzy and the graphics and tech here are probably the most impressive I've seen so far. Too bad it lacks any true purpose, like Sim00n said.

Did fall trough the world once, and I was sure the game would crash but damn, it just put me back at the surface! Was very positively surprised.

Anssi@MooseflyGames
QubedStudios
11. May 2014 路 00:30 UTC
Very Nice! It's the kind of stuff I'd like to do with voxels if my computer was 10000x faster, but what you're doing with polygons is very impressive!
HybridMind
11. May 2014 路 13:36 UTC
I mined 64 gems! :) I love the humor of spawning the food, water, and gems right out of the ground. Explored around for quite a while. I almost wish there wasn't the time limit because I was having fun playing with the terrain, but had to keep finding food and water to stay alive long enough. Cool tech!
xdegtyarev
11. May 2014 路 14:39 UTC
Looks great! Congrats!
madmaw
12. May 2014 路 09:09 UTC
Amazing game for 48 hours!
馃帳 elefantopia
12. May 2014 路 14:46 UTC
madmaw, uh would you be mad at me if I revealed it took 8 hours to make?
馃帳 elefantopia
12. May 2014 路 15:18 UTC
I added Linux for my friends linuxers - yay!
馃帳 elefantopia
12. May 2014 路 15:31 UTC
do you folks want me to ease the nomnomnom so you can explore more?
馃帳 elefantopia
12. May 2014 路 16:19 UTC
QubedStudio, the terrain tech isn't mine, it's a pack called TerraVol by Amfu.
DavidErosa
12. May 2014 路 17:07 UTC
Nice and easy to play. I found it relaxing but it crashed really hard every time I played it (3-4 times)
Seme
17. May 2014 路 20:16 UTC
I really liked the graphics. Sound effects were awesome! :D Good job!
mark.goetz
18. May 2014 路 03:07 UTC
I like the strategy and the deformable terrain! Unfortunately, my poor laptop couldn't quite keep up with big areas, so it got close to unplayable. I also wasn't able to find food or gems, just water, which made my playthrough a bit frustrating. But I love that you recorded the sound effects yourself!
Andrei M眉ller
18. May 2014 路 04:08 UTC
Awesome game! Digging the scenery is soooo sweet!
VictorDoval
18. May 2014 路 13:03 UTC
Beautiful, and inspiring, thanks!
Teesquared
18. May 2014 路 13:50 UTC
Best use of a Photoshop filter at the compo. Needs more urgency but it is fun to explore and launch balls.
Brodenino
18. May 2014 路 14:11 UTC
It's nice to see some refreshing art, and the ability to create smooth tunnels. The whole survival system works quite well, where the components have their own tradeoffs the player need to take into consideration. It ran abit choppy though, but maybe that is because of my graphics configuration. Perhaps a stand-alone build for windows would work much smoother :).
TeamFlare
18. May 2014 路 19:15 UTC
very nice Game!
wschorn
19. May 2014 路 04:09 UTC
beautiful. it was unclear what was going on in some digging situations but the look of the earth is something really insanely enjoyable, so I just keep digging for zen.
crocantidepollo
19. May 2014 路 09:28 UTC
Nice terrain deformation mechanic. Feels good!
Kerdelos
19. May 2014 路 15:20 UTC
I find the graphism gorgeous but the game is hard to play as the mouse keeps moving out of the window =/
minibutmany
19. May 2014 路 21:14 UTC
Really well polished for the short time frame. I would pay for a complete version of something like this.
SK16Games
19. May 2014 路 21:36 UTC
Very fun game :D would like to see some goal besides just surviving, but overall nice entry ;)
Kragnir
20. May 2014 路 00:44 UTC
Nice deformation effect. Very fluid game, would be fun with some more goal. Like the floating islands.
馃帳 elefantopia
20. May 2014 路 02:27 UTC
@Kragnir - I like that idea of goal that have to do with architecturing the terrain... I'll see how I can make that.