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Alien Cyclope Miner on Mars by SK16Games

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made by SK16Games for LD29 (COMPO)
You are an Alien Cyclope Miner on Mars...

It's some kind of Minecraft/Terraria/Starbound etc. inspired game, about mining, building and just getting resources.

--- Controls: ---

Use 'WASD' to move, and 'Space' to jump.
Switch between tools with the mousewheel.
Drill: Click and hold to mine.
Dirt Gun: Click to shoot DIRT!! (What an epic weapon, huh?)


My plan was to make some simple enemies, and so that you could make weapons from gold and silver... but I kind of ran out of time... :/ I used a lot of time on learning new stuff to do in games (infinite terrain, automatic tile system etc.) which I probably should have used the warmup-weekend to learn... But I still think the final result turnt out to be really cool.

So see how much gold you can get, how big a (dirt)house you can build, how long you can explore the generated map before your computer crash, and just have fun and enjoy :D

--- Tools used: ---

- Game Maker: Studio
- Photoshop
- GoTile
- sfxr
- good mood
Windows http://bit.ly/AlienCyclopeMinerOnMars
Source http://bit.ly/LD29_source
Original URL https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-29/?action=preview&uid=32632

Ratings

Coolness 63% 3
Overall 3.00 717
Audio 2.48 704
Fun 2.85 709
Graphics 3.03 639
Humor 2.61 431
Innovation 2.26 1092
Mood 2.90 639
Theme 3.24 575

Feedback

Robert
29. Apr 2014 路 14:03 UTC
Funny game i like it 23/40
Boodog
30. Apr 2014 路 04:35 UTC
Nice job! It was done pretty well!
Marcellus
30. Apr 2014 路 14:56 UTC
Map seems infinite but game is running slower and slower as you explore. with more work you'd have more objectives so I think you should continue developing this game. Graphics are great.
Secret_Tunnel
30. Apr 2014 路 15:07 UTC
I really like the art! Sound wasn't too shabby either. Cool little Minecrafty game. Recommendation: let the player use 'W' to jump in addition to Space, and give some other way to switch tools other than the scroll wheel (maybe the number keys) for those of us on laptops. :)
馃帳 SK16Games
30. Apr 2014 路 16:03 UTC
Thanks for the nice comments, glad you liked my graphics :D I will actually continue developing on this (planning to add some enemies and tools/weapons to make of the ores) and yea, thanks for the controls advice ;)
callidus
30. Apr 2014 路 16:28 UTC
nice game though I confused it and had the gun and drill at once :-/ fun little mining game :-)
CayoDaves
30. Apr 2014 路 16:45 UTC
I echo having missions. You have all the pieces for a nice little game!
Scruffylooking
01. May 2014 路 01:58 UTC
Nice Idea. Loved the sound effect when you get gold or silver.
Marjie62
01. May 2014 路 02:30 UTC
Very polished. Lovely art, and sound effects were a nice touch. There wasn't too much there yet game-play wise. Not sure what to do with that silver and gold :)
jujule
01. May 2014 路 21:05 UTC
A good start for something bigger. Good graphics and humour. Too bad you didn't have time to add enemies, but hey, it's a jam, we all went through there at some point.
Maybe there was a bug on my machine : I couldn't properly see how close or far I was aiming which made things confusing at the beginning.
tehryanx
01. May 2014 路 21:11 UTC
Great for 48h. Not a lot to do, but what you did have was nice and polished. I suggest developing this a little further, gimme something to do with the ores. The one bug I found was that I could use both weapons at hte same time somehow. Overall, great submission!
Caridorc
02. May 2014 路 18:46 UTC
Full review of your game! http://youtu.be/CakNBMFvaEk
馃帳 SK16Games
02. May 2014 路 21:35 UTC
Super nice Caridorc xD
Photon
03. May 2014 路 00:37 UTC
I gotta kick out of that dirt gun.

Like you may have already implied, its a little bare. It also would have been nice to see a cursor for digging. A nice base of a game though.
eckcz
03. May 2014 路 19:40 UTC
If this game had upgrades or some little different other features, I could be addicted. I played for about 20minutes maybe more i don't remember. I love this kind of endless digging games. First i tried to dig every single block, but i realized it cannot be done :( so i continued digging :D this game is one of the best games on ld29 for me.
HeroesGrave
03. May 2014 路 20:56 UTC
The graphics look very nice and the concept sounds quite interesting, but I'm on Linux and so can't give it a go.

Just letting you know that my game has a Windows version available if you would like to try it (you commented that you wanted to so I assume you do).

I apologise for plugging it here but there was really no other way for me to contact you.
馃帳 SK16Games
03. May 2014 路 21:31 UTC
@Photon nice idea with the cursor ;) @eckz Huge thanks for the nice words, cool to see someone really likes my game :D @HeroesGrave great it's for windows now, I'll check your game out ;)
TheSheep
04. May 2014 路 16:59 UTC
I guess I'm too old for sandboxes.
peterrstanley
04. May 2014 路 17:07 UTC
I like the game. It was a bit difficult without a cursor, but learned where it was as you played. I thought it was a good concept.
Jupiter_Hadley
06. May 2014 路 22:20 UTC
Simple, fun game. I included it in part 13 of my Ludum Dare compilation video series, If you鈥檇 like to check it out :) http://youtu.be/xKijfGbEYtc
ElStevo
10. May 2014 路 14:43 UTC
A neat little Minecraft/Terraria clone - maybe too clony for my taste. But the game feels smooth, and it works at what it does. Good job!
pichifino
10. May 2014 路 15:37 UTC
Like it