Dig Dog by jacic

made by jacic for Ludum Dare 48 (COMPO)

You need to dig, dog!

Dig into the earth to find and collect gems, but watch out! Ghosts will do their best to best to take their gems back! They move vertically much slower than you do though. Use this to your advantage as you dig... deeper and deeper.

How many gems can you collect?

This is some of the worst code I've ever written. :) I'm somewhat happy with this game, despite having to cut down my original idea a lot. Not having the full weekend to jam also didn't help. :)

Made with Godot

HTML5 (web)	https://jacic.itch.io/dig-dog-ld48
Source Code (under "Download")	https://jacic.itch.io/dig-dog-ld48
Original URL	https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/48/dig-dog

Ratings

Overall	672^th	3.136⭐	24🧑‍⚖️
Fun	683^th	2.932⭐	24🧑‍⚖️
Innovation	812^th	2.455⭐	24🧑‍⚖️
Theme	127^th	4.068⭐	24🧑‍⚖️
Graphics	653^th	3.068⭐	24🧑‍⚖️
Audio	359^th	3.318⭐	24🧑‍⚖️
Humor	274^th	2.932⭐	24🧑‍⚖️
Mood	725^th	2.714⭐	23🧑‍⚖️
Given		23🗳️	22🗨️

Feedback

Nature Studioz

26. Apr 2021 · 14:33 UTC

Cool game. My only complaint is that It is pretty easy once you get the hang of It. Otherwise, Great Game.

Linus Lindberg

26. Apr 2021 · 15:22 UTC

I enojoyed this, but it felt a bit slow in the beginning. The art and music was good.

thesambassador

26. Apr 2021 · 15:29 UTC

Great music and art! I liked the dirt effect - much better than a boring brown tile, and the digging through it effect was well done!

The game itself is a bit slow, 99% of the time you just are holding the down arrow. The ghost didn't even come close to being a problem and I stopped playing before it caught me. I think that tweaking the enemy behavior, decreasing your starting energy, and adding more pickups to grab would make this a bit more interesting. Great work!

Thulium Games

26. Apr 2021 · 15:33 UTC

Really fun game. It's similar to my original idea. The ghost thing was an untextured pink square for me though.

rakart

26. Apr 2021 · 15:33 UTC

Nice one !

The begining felt weird because there was no gems at all the around the 7.5k points mark there was a lot of them. Cool entry, congratulations !

arnold-990

26. Apr 2021 · 15:48 UTC

ahaha cool game

🎤 jacic

26. Apr 2021 · 16:01 UTC

Thanks for the feedback everyone! I agree with the thoughts on balancing the gems; the curve needs some smoothing out.

@thulium-games Sounds like the shader broke. What version of what browser are you using? Did an error come up in the console?

marksht

08. May 2021 · 16:22 UTC

I really liked the random generation!

TheCommonThug

11. May 2021 · 22:33 UTC

Could have used a gem earlier in the stage to make it more clear what the idea was, but nice work!

NoCymer

11. May 2021 · 22:33 UTC

Really cool endless runner could have been nice to have a model for the ennemy tho. but anyway well done!

Necdilzor

11. May 2021 · 23:02 UTC

Had to download it as HTML 5 version wouldn't load in Firefox.
Nice game! Loved the music and the dog!

hijomo

11. May 2021 · 23:09 UTC

I liked how the gems were hidden. Well designed.

beats

12. May 2021 · 01:58 UTC

Interesting premise, I felt after a certain point when the energy goes down very quickly if there are no gems in your immediate area it's very hard to continue, but I see potential in this game.

Kurama_Youko

12. May 2021 · 18:28 UTC

Ok, why I didn't think of that name before? Anyway, pretty nice and relaxing game, maybe just a bit empty in the start (I guess you're increasing the probability of gems according to depth).

Funambulist Cat

13. May 2021 · 05:57 UTC

Ah ! Well done for this compo ! Favorite and loved part was the dog animation and its design we could really see it well while digging in the brownish texture, so funny, the music was playful, good little experience ! Maybe the ghost needed to be a bit more designed, one could easily lost the ennemy track haha, at least me !

Liam

15. May 2021 · 10:19 UTC

Big fan of having to spot the gems hidden under a layer of dirt, nice mechanic! Had fun!