Dig-Dug Dungeon by bigbadwofl

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made by bigbadwofl for LD25 (COMPO)
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Written in JavaScript.

Browsers:
Chrome: Best
Opera: Good
Firefox: Works but too slow
IE: Untested in newest version, might work
Safari: Untested but should work well

Sorry if the game becomes slow for you. Javascript + Lots of minions + pathfinding makes computers sad.

Ratings

Coolness 100% 1
Overall 3.66 63
Audio 3.30 101
Fun 3.43 104
Graphics 2.98 351
Humor 2.97 217
Innovation 2.96 317
Mood 3.28 128
Theme 3.45 254

Feedback

robashton
17. Dec 2012 路 13:02 UTC
Great effort, lovely dungeon keeper clone - "WHY AREN'T THERE GOATS?" :-)
celsyum
17. Dec 2012 路 13:02 UTC
after playing for a while game starts lagging and almost crashed my browser. Anyway , idea is awesome.
馃帳 bigbadwofl
17. Dec 2012 路 13:04 UTC
@celsyum - thanks for the feedback. What browser where you playing in?
DST
17. Dec 2012 路 13:09 UTC
This gets its high rating from me, not from innovation (DK), but from awesome music and the funny things the minions say, and the fact that it's a fully functioning RTS in 48 hours!
This is surely how DK would have looked on the C64 ;)
har_g
17. Dec 2012 路 14:31 UTC
wow wow wow WOW WOW WOW I WANT MOAR.

ADD A KICKSTARTER AND I WILL GIVE YOU MY MONEY :)

5 stars <3
馃帳 bigbadwofl
17. Dec 2012 路 14:39 UTC
@DST and @har_g: You guys! Thank you very much, I appreciate the kind words.
joekinley
17. Dec 2012 路 15:01 UTC
The music was fun, the game was too. Though the music kept getting off sometimes. Nice work.
馃帳 bigbadwofl
17. Dec 2012 路 15:02 UTC
@joekinley: sorry about that. The plugin I use to generate the chiptune sounds with bugs out when I export tracks to mp3.
Smaxx
17. Dec 2012 路 15:04 UTC
Dungeon Keeper in my browser? Yay for that. Although it feels a bit slow having only one minion.
馃帳 bigbadwofl
17. Dec 2012 路 15:06 UTC
@Smaxx- In the help file and on the splash screen I detail the commands. C + Left click to buy extra minions
epiplon
17. Dec 2012 路 15:14 UTC
"Oh you are a cruel master!"
Loved this game!
metadept
17. Dec 2012 路 15:15 UTC
Had a lot of fun digging around (I love fortress design!) but got frustrated with the AI hanging. Tried to widen some hallways in my base, but that ended up freezing it permanently. Put some kind of failure condition in your (I assume it's pathfinding), add a few types of entities, and I could spend hours on this. Great soundtrack, too.
Corn茅 Dorrestijn
17. Dec 2012 路 15:16 UTC
The IA works very well, nicely done. Also music is nice.
馃帳 bigbadwofl
17. Dec 2012 路 15:23 UTC
@metadept: Thanks for the feedback. What browser were you playing in?
Yapikom
17. Dec 2012 路 15:44 UTC
No first person possession? No can do dude 0/10.

...

Really nice game there. Could've used some more variety, but the lovely music (made me SID-nostalgic) made up for it.

There's one very big problem though. It doesn't work like it should.

Google Chrome/Komodo Dragon freezes after a while and Firefox is just too slow like stated. Haven't tried any other browsers.

I should mention that my computer kinda sucks though.
timtipgames
17. Dec 2012 路 19:06 UTC
I love what I have seen. Unfortunately it froze after a while and even after 10 minutes it is still not responsive at all. The music is awesome.
Tom 7
18. Dec 2012 路 04:31 UTC
I loved the music and once I figured out the somewhat unusual controls I had a good time building out my dungeon! Both times I played I died unexpectedly -- I didn't see any knights near my reaper at all, they all looked to be in some other box. :( Maybe I just wasn't paying close enough attention. A good entry!
CappaGames
18. Dec 2012 路 07:36 UTC
AWESOME GAME! I love this. At first I almost gave up because I couldn't figure it out, but once I did, I loved it. This deserves a full release.....make it happen!
Birchmountain
18. Dec 2012 路 10:04 UTC
A wonderful little game! With a clear goal, you want to keep going and you are very satisfied when you succeed! unfortunately my game froze when i was about to kill my first enemy, but still a great game!
Suese
18. Dec 2012 路 11:18 UTC
Hero seems to be missing.
馃帳 bigbadwofl
18. Dec 2012 路 11:22 UTC
@Suese: How so? The heroes spawn in rooms in random locations at the edges of the map.
MaTX
18. Dec 2012 路 13:13 UTC
The game looks awesome and I can really the amount of effort that went in this.
Great graphics and mood as well. However I would have loved a button for "deselect all", rigt now it can get very messy if you move your mouse incorrectly :D
Harrk
18. Dec 2012 路 15:43 UTC
It was interesting and I really liked it. Just I couldn't figure out how to add more minions even after I was pressing C+Left Click, then again I'm on a laptop so it's a little awkward.
Shot
18. Dec 2012 路 15:47 UTC
Good fun, and very satisfying to dig around with your minions, but suffered from a significant performance drop after a while (just after I came across enemies, I think)
Hatscat
18. Dec 2012 路 16:09 UTC
Awesome! I really enjoy to play it!
All is good : it's fun, nice, a good music,and I don't encountered any bug or lag, even with 22 minions.
kato9
18. Dec 2012 路 19:44 UTC
Wow, incredible! Amazingly complex for 48 hours, but presented in an easily digestible manner. Really enjoyed this - my only complaint would be that it was a bit too easy. Great job!
Dir3kt
18. Dec 2012 路 20:14 UTC
Nice dungeon digger with cool atmosphere :D

Enjoyed playing it however it took me a lot of diggin before finding heroes to kill and relics which made the game a bit repetitive. Maybe smaller map or more actions! I might have been unlucky with the randomly generated map (?) though.
Dir3kt
18. Dec 2012 路 20:15 UTC
btw your username is awesome ;D
youdonotexist
19. Dec 2012 路 07:03 UTC
I started this thinking 'I probably won't be playing this for very long'. 15 minutes later I was still exploring. Very addictive gameplay, paced very well and tons of potential. Great work!
fishbrain
19. Dec 2012 路 07:08 UTC
Nice idea.
Mezzomatto
19. Dec 2012 路 07:15 UTC
Surprisingly brilliant. Didn't want to stop but had to go to dinner. Bookmarked!
blob
19. Dec 2012 路 07:26 UTC
Great to have a dungeon keeper in a browser! Could be very nice with some added complexity and higher difficulty !
Cool tune too.
lotusgame
19. Dec 2012 路 08:55 UTC
I had a very good time on this game.
Music is good, things are pretty simple to play, great game !!!
Only thing ashame with the HTML5 dev is that it lags after a while even with chrome.
But kudos for the game !
jujule
19. Dec 2012 路 09:02 UTC
As everybody else said : great game. So much done in 48 hours !!!
tim_u
19. Dec 2012 路 09:34 UTC
I really enjoyed tunneling up to the enemy bases. I also had the slowdown issue. I was using Chrome. It went away after a fight. Right before it seemed that half my (so 12-ish) guys were attempting to engage two heroes through the wall. Both my guys and the heroes seemed to have seen each other and would not move. Not sure if that helps, but I hope it does.
馃帳 bigbadwofl
19. Dec 2012 路 09:38 UTC
@tim_u: Thanks for detailing when your game crashed. They shouldn't be able to see enemies through walls but I'll check the code anyway. Thanks again.
daredevildave
19. Dec 2012 路 10:04 UTC
Loved it! Played it through to completion. Sent it to my friends. Excellent work.
Had some sever slow-down issues once the I had a few minions, but it went away when they killed some of the adventurers.
nulld
19. Dec 2012 路 10:43 UTC
Very cool sound, like it.
zenmumbler
19. Dec 2012 路 11:17 UTC
This was awesome. Generated terrain, moaning minions, gold and hero-smashing! I encountered the slowdown too at one point, it happens when the imps get confused on how to build a path when you have a bigger area between open areas marked to dig out, they build walls and dig and sort of lock themselves in probably making the pathfinding grind to a halt. Mine got out of that situation tho and I finished the game fine! Good mood, humour and tone.
Mythalore
19. Dec 2012 路 12:05 UTC
Nice simple dwarf fortress! Well done!
Starspell
19. Dec 2012 路 12:39 UTC
I really interesting little game. The mechanics are really interesting and spent a lot of time playing this.

The music you made is quite nice after you get used to it. And I liked how you represented what was going on in the game.

Not bad at all. Only thing I would have added was the ability to kill your minions - you are death after all.
Xeke_Death
19. Dec 2012 路 13:04 UTC
Quite enjoyed this, great effort...!
Tifu
19. Dec 2012 路 13:09 UTC
Very awesome!
Faust
19. Dec 2012 路 13:30 UTC
Excellent dungeon keeper clone, quite amazing to do all this in such a short time.
grifdail
19. Dec 2012 路 14:43 UTC
Awesomness !!! Very fun to play ! It's remind me a beat of "Dungeon keeper" . The game is so well, i can't stop thinking "it's have'nt been made in two day !?"
Even the help line were fun !
Whoua ! I just look at my watch. I have been playing since 2Hours !
GREAT WORK ! Best summition so far !
Manest
19. Dec 2012 路 15:06 UTC
Really really nice, I passed a realy long time playing

somes things :
- music can't be cut
- scrolling is to slow
- Clic is not realy accurate and don't work fine lot of time (Firefox)

little things, rest are great
thank
馃帳 bigbadwofl
19. Dec 2012 路 16:08 UTC
@Manest: Thanks for the feedback but you really shouldn't be playing it on FF. It has probably the worst JS performance in this game.
loren
19. Dec 2012 路 17:01 UTC
Very cool idea. I also liked how you made the instructions sit in their own page, that was helpful.
arch.jslin
19. Dec 2012 路 18:02 UTC
Superb! Making a realtime stretagy game by yourself alone in 48 hours is amazing. I am thinking the pace is too slow or things too scarce for now, but still this is a very cool minimalistic RTS.
shaneshanekavanagh
19. Dec 2012 路 18:03 UTC
Great game happening here. I was expecting digdug, but it's way better.
atrodo
19. Dec 2012 路 18:41 UTC
Great game! Really enjoyed playing it, probably will even play it again later. Good job!
Azlen
19. Dec 2012 路 18:43 UTC
Very fun. I ended up victorious with like 20 minions.
CMaster
19. Dec 2012 路 19:35 UTC
Great work. More variety would be good.

Also, it eventually slowed down to an absolute crawl - think I may have marked too many places for mining?
GreenPixelDev
19. Dec 2012 路 21:16 UTC
NIce job! Fun gameplay and I love that the minions have their own little personalities :D
Dark Acre Jack
19. Dec 2012 路 22:13 UTC
Nice Dungeon Keeper de-make.
bitwise-constructs
19. Dec 2012 路 22:45 UTC
Very fun game! I haven't even gotten to the heroes yet and I'm having a blast just digging to gold veins. Not sure if anyone else had this issue, but it seemed to be tracking my mouse at the center of the pointer image instead of the top left, and that was kind of frustrating for placing beds or clicking on certain tiles.
illugion
19. Dec 2012 路 23:33 UTC
The character looks like characters from realm of the mad god =O your game is cool XD
Meep
20. Dec 2012 路 00:44 UTC
Overall fun game; Clicking stuff felt a little buggy at times, and the art could use work. Other than that though, great work! Could be further expanded on into something amazing. :)
Christina Antoinette Neofotistou
20. Dec 2012 路 02:37 UTC
awww, very cute! I also liked the depressing music!
deathray
20. Dec 2012 路 04:55 UTC
Great game, my favorite so far! I even beat it. :)
Is the GL stuff from a framework?
cwilloughby
20. Dec 2012 路 07:52 UTC
This is amazing. Great job!
Luis Anton
20. Dec 2012 路 08:27 UTC
Absolutely great entry. There's something inherently attractive in these 'dig terrain' games :D
blackmagic
20. Dec 2012 路 12:33 UTC
Great interpretation of DunKeep. Misses a little something for combat :)
Crowbeak
20. Dec 2012 路 14:46 UTC
I played your game for like 45 minutes without realizing it. I also love your clever non-use of goats.
TijmenTio
20. Dec 2012 路 15:58 UTC
This really kept me going for some time.
ceronman
20. Dec 2012 路 18:30 UTC
Nice game. I loved the dialogs and the humor!
raincole
20. Dec 2012 路 18:33 UTC
Music is awesome but too loud.
Per
20. Dec 2012 路 20:00 UTC
Liked the game idea.
It took me to long to find any heroes?
StMatn
20. Dec 2012 路 20:42 UTC
Excellent game! I enjoyed playing it and had to replay it some times, because one time definitely was not enougt! Good job.
matthias_zarzecki
20. Dec 2012 路 22:48 UTC
Love the music!
BlackBulletIV
21. Dec 2012 路 00:06 UTC
A wonderful game. The music was good, the graphics decent, and the gameplay was fun.

It would've been nice to be able to drag a selection of where you want the minions to dig; constantly clicking got annoying after a while.
Dew
21. Dec 2012 路 00:06 UTC
Remembered me Dwarf fortress. Nice idea but need more things, and lagged my browser a lot
Edocentrique
21. Dec 2012 路 18:09 UTC
Excellent work here, you should continue this !
Eniko
22. Dec 2012 路 05:50 UTC
Neat little dungeon building game, pretty fun although there wasn't that much dungeon building involved. Could've done with more variety.
kill0u
22. Dec 2012 路 13:26 UTC
Nice entry :) Took me a while to get it though (the bottom bar wouldn't show until I switch to full screen)
Works perfectly on Opera (Linux) btw
ReveLorenfield
22. Dec 2012 路 19:29 UTC
Wow, I really had fun playing your game, good job :)
ilo
23. Dec 2012 路 00:00 UTC
Very promising effort, bigbadwofl. Unfortunately, The lag got a bit too much in the end, but I enjoyed it nonetheless! :)
ethankennerly
23. Dec 2012 路 00:21 UTC
The chiptune rhythm and solid rectangles of varied dirt pleased my senses while I dug for gold and gems, built beds and summoned minions. If you continue to develop, when I had 7 imps and was beside the heroes and their relic, the game slowed down. On my laptop the HUD was just off the bottom of the screen.
Mesene
23. Dec 2012 路 20:27 UTC
Minions made me feel sad :(
Good job!
ENDESGA
23. Dec 2012 路 23:29 UTC
nice!
Fonserbc
24. Dec 2012 路 14:56 UTC
Really enjoyed this one!
SimianLogic
25. Dec 2012 路 15:47 UTC
Fun, but really easy. Really enjoyed the look and music.
BNeutral
26. Dec 2012 路 18:36 UTC
Interesting, although a bit too simple and slow.
davidwparker
26. Dec 2012 路 20:26 UTC
Pretty Interesting. Be sure to post code too :)
csanyk
26. Dec 2012 路 20:31 UTC
Very enjoyable, not all that challenging. If the Heroes were a little more offensive, it could have been even better.
Oreganik
27. Dec 2012 路 22:30 UTC
Solid.
Sestren
28. Dec 2012 路 03:24 UTC
The music was a bit off-sounding to me, but the rest of the game played really well.
lekochen
29. Dec 2012 路 02:57 UTC
Love the pixel art and music!
Cake&amp;Code
29. Dec 2012 路 09:50 UTC
Epic music during load! Really got me pumped to play the game. Despite my not being very good at these kinds of games (Darn you Spacebase DF-9!) I do like playing them.

It was good AI and the things they said were really funny! Great job :)
leafo
07. Jan 2013 路 07:11 UTC
This is a great game! I love the music! Sadly I suffered from the lag problem after playing a while, but before it happened I was having a ton of fun!