King Midas: Escape from the Deadly Block Dungeons by BackwardSpy

made by BackwardSpy for LD21 (-)

Well, it aint gonna win any prizes (most probably due to the meagre number of levels; I suck at level design!), but I'm not really bothered.
What matters to me is that I created a game in less than 48 hours, and for that I am very happy!

The basic premise of the game is that you, as King Midas, turns everything you touch to gold! (Well, just empty tiles actually. I'll claim that as artistic liberty.)
You get +10 points for each tile you convert, +100 for bonus tiles. The aim is to get through all the levels, converting as many tiles as you can to get the maximum points payoff!
Controls are simple, arrow keys for movement and Z to use your pickaxe (breaks a gold block in the direction you're looking, but costs you 200 gold!).

I hope you like it, and please do make levels if you want to. It's very simple, just go into res/level/ and make a 32x24 PNG for the level layout, and a txt file with the same name as the image for the description that appears at the top! Finally add your level name (filename without the extension) to list.txt in the order you would like it to appear and enjoy!
If you make any cool mods or whatever, do email them to me at BackwardSpy@gmail.com, I'd love to hear from you :)

Windows	http://dl.dropbox.com/u/6661951/Programming/ld21-game.zip
Source	http://dl.dropbox.com/u/6661951/Programming/ld21-source.zip
Original URL	https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-21/?action=preview&uid=5530

Ratings

Coolness	0%	418
Overall	3.00	198

Audio	1.92	291
Community	2.20	305
Fun	2.17	376
Graphics	2.75	243
Humor	1.43	356
Innovation	3.00	192
Theme	1.92	465

Feedback

Gornova

22. Aug 2011 · 19:58 UTC

Problem for your game is not the idea (I like it) but level design. Not in level building, but in adding some sort of danger for player: nothing can harm him or make it think faster, so the game is soon boring. You need to add some gold-eating monster, so could be a run against it :D Think about it!
I see this game as a web-based game, try Flashpunk or Flixel it's easy to do a game like this one, add kongregate api ad put on kongregate :D

🎤 BackwardSpy

22. Aug 2011 · 21:11 UTC

Thanks for the feedback; I'm aware that it has a rather gaping hole in terms of hazards to the player! I will aim to rectify that in a future version :)

xRedx22

23. Aug 2011 · 14:46 UTC

Nice game! I really liked it; the style of your graphics was especially nice. Another thing I liked was that opposed to other games, if you get stuck you don't just have to restart the level, you lose a bunch of points, but can keep going.

Shigor

24. Aug 2011 · 16:16 UTC

Nice idea (reverse boulder dash), but it's too boring - it needs better levels, some sort of challenge

🎤 BackwardSpy

26. Aug 2011 · 13:35 UTC

Thanks for the comments! I'm glad you liked the game, and rest assured that next time I will allocate more time for making better levels and some sort of hazards to the player as well. Thanks for playing!

marudziik

08. Sep 2011 · 21:24 UTC

I don't think the game is boring - 17770 score; beat that, loosers! ;)
Theme-wise this isn't much, but yeah, more complicated levels would definitely improve the gameplay. I like it!

summaky

10. Sep 2011 · 18:07 UTC

I join the others that say that it needs a bit of polishing in the level design department. Also, I fail to get the connection with the escape theme here; it looks more like a gold digger :-)