{"author_link":"\/author\/kewry\/","author_name":"kewry","author_uid":"12789","comments":[{"author_name":"CagedRat","author_uid":"557","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 5:35am","epoch":1367213400,"text":"Good job, I feel ashamed.  The world needs more games with digging."},{"author_name":"GaTechGrad","author_uid":"19778","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 5:45am","epoch":1367214000,"text":"I ate the only potato in the world... I'm so selfish. :D"},{"author_name":"Aaants","author_uid":"16061","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 12:57pm","epoch":1367239920,"text":"That's one pricey potato! Nice work :)"},{"author_name":"EdoMiyamoto","author_uid":"18304","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 1:48pm","epoch":1367242980,"text":"I really like digging games like this! Great job, i enjoyed :)"},{"author_name":"Jonathan Whiting","author_uid":"527","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 1:53pm","epoch":1367243280,"text":"Love the idea of mining diamonds to eat potato.  Could have done with more signalling that you are low on fuel\/hull."},{"author_name":"lody","author_uid":"22580","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 1:57pm","epoch":1367243520,"text":"*ashamed* Economy, upgrades, and mining all in such simply fun package."},{"author_name":"theomnis","author_uid":"15860","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 2:05pm","epoch":1367244000,"text":"Not very good at it, but definitely enjoyed it!"},{"author_name":"oskardevelopment","author_uid":"21518","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 2:53pm","epoch":1367246880,"text":"Fun game! Potato! :)"},{"author_name":"richy486","author_uid":"15135","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 3:04pm","epoch":1367247540,"text":"Pretty cool, I haven't played a game like this before. Also love the music"},{"author_name":"ananasblau","author_uid":"3562","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 3:09pm","epoch":1367247840,"text":"interesting game, but it is far from being fun to play. I die without much reason. Moving through previously dug tiles costs as much fuel as digging through a tile. I have no sense of how much my thing is damaged and hence don't know when I'm close to implode or something.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>You got an interesting game idea though, and with a few improvements it can easily become a success on kongregate.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>PS: sorry if I sound a bit harsh."},{"author_name":"Nanolotl","author_uid":"4470","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 3:10pm","epoch":1367247900,"text":"Fun concept. With a bit more polish, such as adding more feedback for showing when you have low fuel or damaged hull, it could have been more enjoyable.\r<br\/>The music was a bit repetitive."},{"author_name":"kewry","author_uid":"12789","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 3:23pm","epoch":1367248680,"text":"Thanks for the feedback and all messages so far! It really helps out.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>@ananasblau harsh is good sometimes :D\r<br\/>\r<br\/>@Nanolotl I made the music using Otomata then sticking in the pieces together quite near the submission time so it didn't come out so good, also I'm terrible at art\/music making so this theme helped quite a lot :D"},{"author_name":"gizmo","author_uid":"5900","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 4:04pm","epoch":1367251140,"text":"a minimal iDigit! very promising, i would love to see a more refined version of it."},{"author_name":"josefnpat","author_uid":"11249","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 4:07pm","epoch":1367251320,"text":"I was unable to read any of the text. Silly linux with web."},{"author_name":"tonic","author_uid":"66","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 4:10pm","epoch":1367251500,"text":"Haha, it's very nice for a while!"},{"author_name":"LZAntal","author_uid":"11060","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 4:27pm","epoch":1367252520,"text":"Fun digging game. Could not figure out how to get more fuel but who cares I was just keep playing it over and over. Nicely done."},{"author_name":"gilmore606","author_uid":"22003","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 6:23pm","epoch":1367259480,"text":"Very nice minimal game, does a lot with a little.  I was disappointed there were not more expensive upgrades, I was fully upgraded as soon as I figured out what was going on.  Still, nice work!"},{"author_name":"pereubu","author_uid":"16143","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 6:28pm","epoch":1367259780,"text":"liked it, it's addictive :D"},{"author_name":"BortStudios","author_uid":"8199","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 6:31pm","epoch":1367259960,"text":"Good game, it kept me retrying to do better"},{"author_name":"Michael Hall","author_uid":"20062","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 6:31pm","epoch":1367259960,"text":"Very nice, reminds me of Motherload. I didn't get the potato though, it told me I dug too deep even though my hull was fully upgraded. Oh well..."},{"author_name":"cr4zyt3rry","author_uid":"22638","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 7:08pm","epoch":1367262180,"text":"really cool!"},{"author_name":"mrexcessive","author_uid":"20788","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 7:10pm","epoch":1367262300,"text":"Agree doesn't work on Chrome. IE seemed ok."},{"author_name":"Covenant","author_uid":"326","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 7:10pm","epoch":1367262300,"text":"I enjoyed this one very much... a lot of fun, with some more stuff this game could be really awesome...\r<br\/>I died too many times for not noticing the hull damage, maybe an alert sound whenn you're down to 25% or so... \r<br\/>Great job!"},{"author_name":"TheSheep","author_uid":"11694","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 7:15pm","epoch":1367262600,"text":"The text on all the buttons and in the game is unreadable in the web version, which makes it rather hard to figure it out."},{"author_name":"McFunkypants","author_uid":"2297","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 10:18pm","epoch":1367273580,"text":"Cool game! I was running in Chrome and the performance was excellent. Would love more feedback for when you're about to die. Keep up the great work."},{"author_name":"Folis","author_uid":"2494","time":"Apr 30, 2013 @ 2:14pm","epoch":1367330940,"text":"A very fun game, even though it's rather easy to beat. Enjoyed it while it lasted!\r<br\/>\r<br\/>(NOTE: Don't you ever make me download Chrome ever again. :p)"},{"author_name":"comrad_gremlin","author_uid":"18465","time":"Apr 30, 2013 @ 4:50pm","epoch":1367340300,"text":"Turned out very fun to play :)\r<br\/>Kudos, man!"},{"author_name":"nilstastic","author_uid":"2443","time":"Apr 30, 2013 @ 6:46pm","epoch":1367347260,"text":"Nice digging game, I liked it a lot but I was not very good at it :)"},{"author_name":"jhrrsn","author_uid":"18114","time":"May 1, 2013 @ 12:37am","epoch":1367368320,"text":"This game is excellent. It's so therapeutic to play, and well thought out. I left guilty when I ate the last potato and the game was over"},{"author_name":"plop","author_uid":"23114","time":"May 13, 2013 @ 9:23am","epoch":1368436680,"text":"The lack of warnings made it kind of unreasonably hard (hard in a not-enjoyable way) but it's a pretty good game other than that. The lack of warnings does give an element of planning ahead :P"},{"author_name":"StMatn","author_uid":"18894","time":"May 20, 2013 @ 12:03am","epoch":1369007880,"text":"Nice game! The audio was really cool. The game is beaten a bit too quick, but its fun anyway. Good job!"},{"author_name":"Purplescape","author_uid":"19858","time":"May 20, 2013 @ 10:18pm","epoch":1369087980,"text":"This game is cool, I enjoyed it. That potato may have been expensive but it was worth it."}],"images":["ld26\/12789-5e8ca38d21c06b0d4c1594dd17814aae.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.fastswf.com\/8FYTp-I","text":"Windows"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.fastswf.com\/8FYTp-I","text":"OS\/X"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.fastswf.com\/8FYTp-I","text":"Linux"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.fastswf.com\/8FYTp-I","text":"Web"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.mediafire.com\/download.php?u882zx8p7xzjv1u","text":"Source"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"26771","g_author":"12789","g_event":"LD26","g_eventkey":"16","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"26801","g_title":"Digging For A Potato","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"674","g_commentcount":"32","g_site2_node_id":"0","g_hide":"N","g_has_icon":"Y","g_rqueue":"0","g_random":"0"},"nds":[],"node":null,"orig_images":["http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/233892\/12789-shot0.PNG-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"Survive until you buy the last potato on Earth! \r\n\r\nControls: \r\nMovement - WASD\r\nP - Pause and edit controls\r\n\r\nInstructions: \r\nMove around while avoiding to run out of fuel or being destroyed by digging too deep. \r\nSell minerals on the Green Cross Shop \r\nUse the money to upgrade your hull and fuel tank \r\nBuy that potato!\r\n\r\nNotice: Game seems to have terrible performance on Google Chrome due to OpenGL usage, please use another browser instead.<\/p>","title":"Digging For A Potato"}