{"author_link":"\/author\/tonic\/","author_name":"tonic","author_uid":"66","comments":[{"author_name":"ranklar","author_uid":"3268","time":"Dec 20, 2010 @ 9:33pm","epoch":1292880480,"text":"I like the fact that you have a way to win, and the game works for the most part.  Great job in using the theme!  The downside for me, was the scanner which seemed to be frivolous.  I was able to find 4 of 5 diamonds by visual inspection of the graphics, they seemed to bleed through, not sure if it was intended, but the result was making the scanner useless.  I also wish there was another level or the ability to try again at a higher score.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Overall it was a decent game, and I think you should be proud of what you accomplished.  Your game is lot more fun than mine! :)  Low ratings on humor (wasn't funny), audio, the sound was really repetitive, and innovation (would have given you a 4 on this if the scanner was worthwhile!)"},{"author_name":"frr171","author_uid":"1675","time":"Dec 20, 2010 @ 10:46pm","epoch":1292884860,"text":"Catchy music and nice visuals."},{"author_name":"tonic","author_uid":"66","time":"Dec 23, 2010 @ 1:37pm","epoch":1293111120,"text":"@ranklar, I left the &quot;diamonds bleed through&quot; as a feature on purpose, so that sometimes you are lucky and find the diamonds without the scanner. However, that is not a directly tweakable thing in the code, so it is random between different plays how many of them can be found that way. So that makes the game probably a bit too off-balanced between plays."},{"author_name":"FuzzYspo0N","author_uid":"2649","time":"Dec 23, 2010 @ 2:02pm","epoch":1293112620,"text":"I thought it was pretty cool, the bleeding through thing was a nice surprise like hey what is that?? \r<br\/>\r<br\/>I also never used the scanner, after i found my first diamond i had a lot of money so i bought a handful of drills and just brute forced around.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>But, thats not to say it wasnt interesting and fun. Audio was nice too, i didn't really notice the song until i was nodding my head while digging, its awesome."},{"author_name":"LegacyCrono","author_uid":"3093","time":"Dec 23, 2010 @ 3:25pm","epoch":1293117600,"text":"Nice game! It doesn't have much challenge though. Online leaderboards would be a great addition to it, I think. Great graphics and music! Good job!"},{"author_name":"Tom 7","author_uid":"1984","time":"Dec 24, 2010 @ 6:28am","epoch":1293171780,"text":"I discovered all three diamonds. The first one I found with the scanner (my favorite part -- I liked how I could trade off wide and short for narrow and long), the other two I could see peeking through cracks. Finished"},{"author_name":"Tom 7","author_uid":"1984","time":"Dec 24, 2010 @ 6:30am","epoch":1293171900,"text":"I discovered all three diamonds. The first one I found with the scanner (my favorite part -- I liked how I could trade off wide and short for narrow and long), the other two I could see peeking through cracks. Finished with $30022 but I didn't see anything to do with it other than buy a lot of scanner batteries. :) Liked the graphics and the music. Did you know you can walk around the whole world and dig up from the bottom?"},{"author_name":"Tom 7","author_uid":"1984","time":"Dec 24, 2010 @ 6:39am","epoch":1293172440,"text":"Oops, I see now that there are five diamonds and an ending. Finished with $51178. But actually I think I prefer to just buy a lot of scanner batteries and keep walking off into the void. :)"},{"author_name":"tonic","author_uid":"66","time":"Dec 26, 2010 @ 5:23pm","epoch":1293383880,"text":"@Tom 7, lol. ^_^ Nice you had fun with the game!"},{"author_name":"joekinley","author_uid":"3012","time":"Dec 28, 2010 @ 1:16pm","epoch":1293541860,"text":"Nice game. I had a lot of fun digging around, running through eternity and still after that coming back and digging up all the missing diamonds. But why the hell did I buy more than one drill? Apparently this one never broke anyways.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Nice graphics, cool sounds and music, nice game, was fun and all. You even had some community stuff down, only thing missing is my lovely timelapse video. \r<br\/>\r<br\/>Really good work."},{"author_name":"Endurion","author_uid":"103","time":"Dec 31, 2010 @ 3:26pm","epoch":1293808860,"text":"Sorry, my virus scanner blocks the download (PAK_Generic.001). Probably false positive."},{"author_name":"tonic","author_uid":"66","time":"Jan 2, 2011 @ 9:03pm","epoch":1294001880,"text":"@joekinley, drill's do break down when used enough. There is amount of randomness how long a single drill endures, though."},{"author_name":"Endurion","author_uid":"103","time":"Jan 4, 2011 @ 8:46am","epoch":1294130460,"text":"Neat idea.\r<br\/>The scanner would've given the corresponding implementation of discovery but didn't seem to show anything but green dots. Not even when there were obviously diamonds below.\r<br\/>Other than that, good fun."},{"author_name":"Tom Francis","author_uid":"3103","time":"Jan 10, 2011 @ 12:12pm","epoch":1294661220,"text":"Nice job! The feel of digging through the rocks is satisfying, and the scanner focus adjustment is a really neat mechanic.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>I forgot the controls you list here when I was playing, and the only one that isn't explained in-game is that you have to manually activate the scanner - it sort of looks like it's already working but hasn't found anything. So for a long time I didn't realise i had to press Z. Oddly, I found all but two of the diamonds through blind digging. More fun once I figured out the scanner, though, and a good fit for the theme."}],"images":["ld19\/66-b635dd1947cb3ccc3a2000d800dfa288.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/jet.ro\/files\/DrillWarrior.zip","text":"Windows"},{"url":"http:\/\/jet.ro\/files\/drillwarrior-src.zip","text":"Source"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"33382","g_author":"66","g_event":"LD19","g_eventkey":"5","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"33412","g_title":"Drill Warrior","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"48","g_commentcount":"14","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\/\/33232\/66-shot0.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"New addition to the warrior series yet again...\r\nmeet Drill Warrior!\r\n\r\nControls:\r\nArrow keys - move player or adjust scanner\r\nX - Switch item (pickaxe \/ drill \/ scanner)\r\nZ - Use scanner (when it is the selected item)\r\nC - Buy item (drill or scanner battery, when standing on top of the shop item)\r\n<\/p>","title":"Drill Warrior"}