Mr Drills Kandy Harvest by LordMiji

made by LordMiji for Ludum Dare 52 (JAM)

Hurry hurry, get to work!. King Kandy is absolutely famished, and you know how he gets if he doesn't get his Kandies.

Hello and welcome to our little game. You play as an adorable little Kandy chap in a horrible Kandy mine. Tasked with mining Kandy for the gluttonous Kandy King. Fill your quota or lose your - well nothing actually, this game is strictly PG.

We hope you have fun, and please let us know what you think.

ART: Dajon B Coding + SFX: Michael K Music: sourced from [https://www.chosic.com/] due to lack of time.

GUIDE

left arrow or A will mine/move to the left,
right arrow or D will mine/move to the right,
* down arrow or S will mine below you (this isn't minecraft so you are good).

Again, thank you for taking the time to checkout our game, and PLEASE do leave feedback if you have the time.

Cheers, and Happy NY all.

(INGAME SHOT) screenshot.3.png

Link	https://www.dropbox.com/s/gmsww9t5b1v0bit/LD52%20-%20Mr%20Drills%20Kandy%20Harvest.zip?dl=0
Original URL	https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/52/mr-drills-kandy-harvest

Ratings

Overall	683^th	3.038⭐	28🧑‍⚖️
Fun	570^th	3.077⭐	28🧑‍⚖️
Innovation	676^th	2.808⭐	28🧑‍⚖️
Audio	264^th	3.462⭐	28🧑‍⚖️
Given		13🗳️	34🗨️

Feedback

Antsa

09. Jan 2023 · 09:05 UTC

At first I thought it was a bit weird that the candy didn't move to the position I clicked it, but then when I started spamming the keys, it felt a bit more natural :D

It seemed to give the same set of candies to collect every time. Maybe you could have randomized the amount and type to add some more pseudo variety.

Overall fun little pattern recognition game

AncientEntity

09. Jan 2023 · 09:23 UTC

Could use randomness or maybe levels. Maybe when they reach the bottom without getting the right amount they have to restart? or maybe if they get too many of one type as well? Could of used a bit more but the concept is there!

HFSEvans

09. Jan 2023 · 21:55 UTC

Certainly a fun idea! Looks great, sounds great. I think it could use a few more mechanical elements, perhaps if two or more of the same candy is strung together then they all disappear at once? Aldo perhaps make the level continues so we don't reach the bottom with nothing to do, if we didn't make the quota?

moonlightbomber

10. Jan 2023 · 02:05 UTC

It's fun for what it currently is, so you need to add more levels and variety. Also, there needs to be more objectives than to harvest certain candies. There also needs to have a bonus time attack mode, where it's all-you-can-eat.

DuzzOnDrums

10. Jan 2023 · 02:06 UTC

Happy NY to you as well! I can relate to this kandy king guy! My kid loved this entry, he picked it out to play because of the theme ;) Was actually nice there was no time limit for him. He said it would be nice to have different candies needed on different levels too :)

🎤 LordMiji

10. Jan 2023 · 06:41 UTC

@duzzondrums Your little one liking our entry is the best compliment we could have asked for (My son also enjoyed play testing it, but would finish by saying "it was fun but it needs a bit more stuff" - everyones a critic :p)

808074

10. Jan 2023 · 11:51 UTC

Great idea, we thought about something like this, but turned it off. Glad that you didi it!

Reikan

10. Jan 2023 · 14:47 UTC

Too bad there's not several levels :/

JamesBoink

10. Jan 2023 · 19:08 UTC

"Yay" killed me XD

🎤 LordMiji

10. Jan 2023 · 22:38 UTC

@jamesbonk That had me smiling whenever I completed a test play as well, so I was hoping it would give you guys a little chuckle as well.