Miner Grievance by Jack

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made by Jack for LD29 (COMPO)
Frameworks/external code:
XNA 4.0 (everything else was written from scratch)

It's been a while but damn it feels good to be back. This is probably without hyperbole the ugliest game I've ever made, but nonetheless I think it turned out well, especially for the time.

Made some incredibly grating soundtracks and some surprisingly good sound effects for it too, which was something that people often said about my other LD entries.

It's basically a game where you collect coins and blow stuff up. The difficulty lies in not destroying the coin, not blowing yourself up (easier than it sounds) and not being shot by other players in multiplayer. I haven't tested the multiplayer with another person yet but hopefully it should be fine.

Keyboard Controls
P1: WASD to move & aim
Space to jump
Shift to shoot

P2: Arrow keys to move & aim
Right Ctrl to shoot
Num0 to jump

Both: Escape to pause
Enter to start game

Ratings

Coolness 44% 1633
Overall 2.91 825
Audio 2.55 669
Fun 3.09 489
Graphics 2.55 950
Humor 2.22 714
Innovation 2.82 734
Mood 2.63 878
Theme 2.67 973

Feedback

tiffi
28. Apr 2014 路 11:11 UTC
Played it in 2 Playermod, great level destruction. The Controls are al little bit odd though
ccglp
28. Apr 2014 路 11:35 UTC
Don't know with the controller, but with keyboard controls are a little tough, great game whatever
馃帳 Jack
28. Apr 2014 路 11:43 UTC
Yeah, I couldn't get the keyboard controls to feel great without adding mouse control, which kinda ruined the arcadey feel of the game and made it so you couldn't play 2P without controllers. I'm sure with extra time I could get it feeling a little better.
lantto
28. Apr 2014 路 11:48 UTC
Cool game! The destruction is satisfying.

I don't have a gamepad so I played it on the keyboard and unfortunately the controls (WASD + Left Shift) isn't very intuitive and made the gameplay less fun than I think it could be.

Overall I think it's good though and I would love to try out the multiplayer since it feels like it would fit the concept perfectly.
Seme
29. Apr 2014 路 18:24 UTC
Nice, a game with some destruction mechanics involved. As others have said, I agree that control are a bit hard, at least when using keyboard. Nice game though, good work!
Rick Hoppmann
29. Apr 2014 路 19:42 UTC
Can't play this, Unity webplayer is not available for Linux OS. Feel free to send me a tweet @tinyworlds if you export a Linux executable and I'll play your game.
Rick Hoppmann
29. Apr 2014 路 19:43 UTC
oups, wrong game :S
Rick Hoppmann
29. Apr 2014 路 19:49 UTC
Doesn't work on my Linux machine.
Thorig
30. Apr 2014 路 08:29 UTC
This game crashes on Windows 8.1. I could not play it.
Dietrich Epp
18. May 2014 路 08:42 UTC
Playing on Windows 8.1, it quit with no message. I looked at event viewer and found this:

Exception Info: System.IO.FileNotFoundException
Stack:
at LD29.Program.Main(System.String[])