Mine Shift by tiptoe

made by tiptoe for Ludum Dare 49 (JAM)

PLAY IN YOUR BROWSER: https://tiptoe.itch.io/mine-shift

You have bough an old mine... cheap. Oh no, it is in a crappy and unstable state.

Are you brave enough to get to the bottom of the mine?!

BEWARE: Mine is extremely unstable. Build supports regularly. Watch out for the sand worms. Did you know that you can kill them? Restore old pumps to drain water out of the mine. Protect pipes from pumps to the tank if you don't like drowning yourself. You can also reinforce your supports. Reinforced supports are great against the sand worms and other dangers you will meet down below. Use them. Good luck!

CONTROLS: Arrow keys for movement and digging. Space key for construction.

Link	https://tiptoe.itch.io/mine-shift
Original URL	https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/49/mine-shift

Ratings

Overall	22^th	4.375⭐	38🧑‍⚖️
Fun	22^th	4.333⭐	38🧑‍⚖️
Innovation	222^th	3.819⭐	38🧑‍⚖️
Theme	21^th	4.528⭐	38🧑‍⚖️
Graphics	103^th	4.444⭐	38🧑‍⚖️
Humor	471^th	3.379⭐	35🧑‍⚖️
Mood	409^th	3.714⭐	37🧑‍⚖️
Given		53🗳️	20🗨️

Feedback

ache games

05. Oct 2021 · 02:44 UTC

Well Done!!, very entertaining. Everything seems smooth to me.

DoctorTurbo

05. Oct 2021 · 10:15 UTC

Awesome! Really fun to play and addictive in how you have to manage an ever more complex spiderweb of unstable tunnels. My only complaint would be that it feels like you aren't really progressing in the tools you use but that's a small nit for a jam game.

Bulix

05. Oct 2021 · 10:16 UTC

Really impressive! It had me hooked for quite some time. I barely made it to level 50 before it became too hard to manage.

StaticBits

05. Oct 2021 · 10:26 UTC

Wow! I had a blast playing this! I love the simple graphics and gameplay, having to continuously support your mine, which is collapsing around you, and the sound effects are on point as well!

Heho

05. Oct 2021 · 10:29 UTC

Really nice graphic style here. Also gameplay works nicely.

Blobby101

05. Oct 2021 · 10:38 UTC

Very good! Difficult to fault for being made in 72 hours, honestly. I can see plenty of scope for expansion as well if you wanted to (more involved building mechanics could be cool, maybe you could upgrade pumps, place mining machines to get some passive income etc.)

Wang TianLiang

05. Oct 2021 · 10:41 UTC

I love your game,and i hate those pink bugs...Bugs? So the Player is a programmer？

Juanlu

05. Oct 2021 · 11:30 UTC

So fun! It was really addictive too!

Rrrobi

05. Oct 2021 · 12:18 UTC

well done! very polished! loved the graphics the sounds and mood was great too!

arya-s

05. Oct 2021 · 15:55 UTC

The game feels very polished for such a short amount of time. It's also a lot of fun to play, I didn't expect to get sucked in as much as I did. I think it's probably related to the danger of tunnels breaking in. So you have these constant mini games of digging and building.

Congrats on a great submission.

Arken

06. Oct 2021 · 07:49 UTC

So good! Give me a feel of 4X games. But when the game goes to middle of whole process, there is no new mechanism in game, just numerical improvement. But this game is which I spend most time in! Thank you!

David Hunter

06. Oct 2021 · 22:14 UTC

Impressive work for a game jam

RollCreators

07. Oct 2021 · 16:46 UTC

It is the best game that i saw on this jam

Tron

07. Oct 2021 · 17:00 UTC

Great Work. Just loved your game.

TheBookSnail

07. Oct 2021 · 17:16 UTC

Nice. It took me a little bit to understand, but once I did it's a fun game.

CobyW

07. Oct 2021 · 23:20 UTC

I really enjoyed this! I ran into a bug (haha, get it) where a sand worm busted my connections and the water level rose up above all the pumps, but then didn't go back down even after I repaired all available connections. Even so, I had a blast, and its a really well done game, esp for a weekend project.

GameDev and Architecture

08. Oct 2021 · 22:37 UTC

Great job making this game! Every aspect of the game is highly polished! Amusingly enough, I made a [very similar game](https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/48/search-for-the-undergem) for the previous LD.

DGSpitzer

09. Oct 2021 · 03:50 UTC

A straight 5 star game! So much fun and great completion. I really enjoyed this game, keep dig-dig-dig

vivyhasadream

09. Oct 2021 · 04:10 UTC

Very well polished! I gave all five stars! you could play this game non stop. you could play it safe or play wild.

crneumre

09. Oct 2021 · 19:03 UTC

Wow. Absolutely incredibly addicting and fun game. I enjoyed it and spend way too much time on haha
Don't really have a critique everything was really well done and it never felt repetitive due to the randomness of the worms and the blocks.
Extremely well done!

Edoardo Talamini

10. Oct 2021 · 16:34 UTC

Incredibly engaging and addictive gameplay loop, good job!

lucasvb

10. Oct 2021 · 17:11 UTC

Really digging the overall look. The slightly offset blocks are a very nice take on the grid level design. Animation is rich and smooth. Sound design is a bit inconsistent, as the character looks distinctively male with a moustache but death voice sounds feminine? Maybe I'm reading it wrong though.

I like the take on the pink worms turning blocks into sand. It really amps up the challenge in a creative way.

elysiagriffin

11. Oct 2021 · 15:25 UTC

Hi there! Thanks for submitting your game for me to play live during my Twitch stream!

If you’d like to rewatch the playthrough, you can find it here:

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1172268556?t=2h52m40s

Good luck on your ratings, see you next LD! :D

💜 Elysia Griffin AKA Button Feedback Lady

https://www.twitch.tv/elysiagriffin

Wonderr

12. Oct 2021 · 09:31 UTC

Really intuitive and fun game, very impressed.

mhorth

15. Oct 2021 · 20:31 UTC

This game really sucked me in for a long time! The gameplay felt good, the animations and sounds gave great feedback and made things feel real. It was all great.

Literally the only thing I can complain about is that the level seemed too long with no new mechanics. I guess the game itself sort of evolves as you get deeper (should have submitted this last jam xD) but I wish something new would have been introduced when I was at the halfway mark.

c64cosmin

16. Oct 2021 · 15:31 UTC

Really good twist to the BoulderDash genre, really addictive, loved playing and forgot about myself, I quit because the explosions are destroying my scaffolding. Please make this a full game!