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Earth. by miwuc

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made by miwuc for LD29 (COMPO)
Dig to find out what's beneath the surface. HINT: once you have a tool you can click and drag instead of clicking repeatedly.

This is my second Ludum Dare entry. I'm fairly happy with the result even though I had lots of ideas that I didn't have time to implement. As it is, it's a bit too reminiscent of minecraft though.

Made with jquery and lots of divs (I should really learn HTML5 one of these days). Completely untested on windows/IE, please tell me if it appears desperately broken.
Play (web) http://arcadia.island.free.fr/bazar/earth/
Source http://arcadia.island.free.fr/bazar/earth/earth.js
Original URL https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-29/?action=preview&uid=6177

Ratings

Coolness 73% 3
Overall 3.31 425
Audio 2.51 691
Fun 3.20 401
Graphics 3.37 420
Humor 2.38 595
Innovation 3.29 402
Mood 2.90 639
Theme 4.17 12

Feedback

vinull
27. Apr 2014 · 23:50 UTC
I love the idea of digging past the crust of the earth. I had fun playing it.
Skencer
28. Apr 2014 · 01:03 UTC
That was an awesome game. I love how you find the tools after digging around for awhile and the fossils are great.
Pent
28. Apr 2014 · 01:59 UTC
I liked it well enough
lessmilk
28. Apr 2014 · 10:57 UTC
OMG, dinosaurs! Great game, it perfectly fits the theme.
FelipeTavares
28. Apr 2014 · 15:15 UTC
Nice idea & beautiful art! LOVED it!
Cosmologicon
28. Apr 2014 · 16:22 UTC
I had fun. I was really close to quitting when I got to the end, maybe if there was one more slot for a final artifact to signal the end of the game it would have kept me looking for it. Overall good sense of progression, though.
dylanwolf
28. Apr 2014 · 17:12 UTC
Neat idea, even if it has similarities to minecraft. I like the graphic style.
maffydub
28. Apr 2014 · 21:27 UTC
Nice idea, and the fossils are very cool. It's good to have audio, but the sound did grate a little after a while.

Is there a kind of ambient occlusion lighting effect on the blocks? It looks it - very clever!
JimmyBoh
28. Apr 2014 · 21:29 UTC
Bravo, this is very impressive seeing as you just used jQuery. Definitly look in to Phaser.js(http://phaser.io), you'll feel right at home looking at your code for this. ;)
longshorts
28. Apr 2014 · 21:32 UTC
Great little explore and discover game, don't care if it is inspired by minecraft, I loved it. Definitely needs a mute option however, as the sounds quickly get annoying.
Cawrtz
29. Apr 2014 · 11:22 UTC
The game is so simple, but I kept playing until the end of it because the game is designed not to be boring (for example, last tiles of the previous layer gets removed automatically). This is a nice use of the theme, and it's quite entertaining. And it's JavaScript :D
Good job.
BigRat
29. Apr 2014 · 12:53 UTC
It's really cool to play and i really loved to hover mouse and destroy everything in my way.
grozamorei
30. Apr 2014 · 05:54 UTC
Nice idea
Joror
30. Apr 2014 · 21:14 UTC
Pretty nice and casual game! Maybe needs a pressure element to up the 'game' factor a bit - like damaging the bones when you hit them with the wrong tools; get less points. :)
theholychicken
01. May 2014 · 02:59 UTC
Wonderful use of the theme! It's surface after surface and unveiling the stuff beneath.
Totally killed my index finger though :D
mtinkerhess
01. May 2014 · 06:15 UTC
I like the way the blocks burst and fade out when you break them apart. Also how each level will fade out when you have pretty much cleared it out. The concept is great too.
gre
01. May 2014 · 09:25 UTC
That was a nice idea. Graphics and gameplay is cool!
Dinosaurs!
Nezzhil
01. May 2014 · 11:06 UTC
I love it!!!
SmilingCat
01. May 2014 · 11:12 UTC
It was fun once I started finding stuff, until then I wasn't sure exactly what I was doing. Then I was like "Oh, archaeology, cool!" Maybe a bit of a hook would help - like a backstory or rigging it so that the first block dug always finds something, then the game returns to normal.
myachin
01. May 2014 · 11:33 UTC
very good game! nice ideA
pancakecity
01. May 2014 · 15:01 UTC
Very pleasant experience! I kept expecting to find some scary deep-earth horror, for some reason!
Jod
01. May 2014 · 17:11 UTC
That was really cute! I half expected to dig too greedily and too deep so I'd unleash a Balrog :).
vinull
01. May 2014 · 22:48 UTC
(Previous comment was my daughter's) - Enjoy digging up the fossils and don't know if this was intended but I was able to "speed dig" by clicking while rapidly moving the mouse. Every now and then a layer would vanish on it's own though, don't know if that was part of the game.

The museum should be happy with my work!
mattrified
02. May 2014 · 03:33 UTC
The dig sound with the initial shovel sometimes overlapped in a way that became grating, but overall, nice job, :)
🎤 miwuc
02. May 2014 · 06:58 UTC
Thank you all for your comments!

@vinull, yes, the "speed dig" was intended (otherwise the hand and the shovel would do the same thing), but completely undiscoverable, I should really have added a help message.
The disappearing layers are also intended, I didn't want it to be too grindy so a layer disappears when there's under 20% left of it.

Also lesson learned about the sound, I'll add a mute button next time!
alvarop
02. May 2014 · 17:53 UTC
Wish there was some type of challenge in this game. The idea is really neat, though! I liked it.
InvisibleWonder
04. May 2014 · 12:24 UTC
I loved the sense of light flooding down into the depths. Very engaging if not super challenging. I don't see minecraft connection -- this is quite original.
frogcheese
04. May 2014 · 14:06 UTC
Cool take on the theme, and I like the graphics. A bit of challenge could have added to it - maybe hide bad stuff underneath some tiles à la MineSweeper?
Ragzouken
04. May 2014 · 20:39 UTC
good take on the theme, the digging feels pretty good and i like the bone sprites :)
Caridorc
06. May 2014 · 18:19 UTC
Overall this game is solid and can be expanded.
Andrew Adams
09. May 2014 · 19:46 UTC
Top down minecraft was fun
Seme
18. May 2014 · 11:29 UTC
Good game. Nice work!