Digging For A Potato

by kewry
Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.06
Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.08
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★2.75
Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.38
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★2.30
Audio★★★★★★★★★★2.91
Humor★★★★★★★★★★2.69
Mood★★★★★★★★★★2.62
Coolness★★★★★★★★★★100%
Survive until you buy the last potato on Earth!

Controls:
Movement - WASD
P - Pause and edit controls

Instructions:
Move around while avoiding to run out of fuel or being destroyed by digging too deep.
Sell minerals on the Green Cross Shop
Use the money to upgrade your hull and fuel tank
Buy that potato!

Notice: Game seems to have terrible performance on Google Chrome due to OpenGL usage, please use another browser instead.

screenshot

Comments32

CagedRat
CagedRat29 Apr 2013, 05:35
Good job, I feel ashamed. The world needs more games with digging.
GaTechGrad29 Apr 2013, 05:45
I ate the only potato in the world... I'm so selfish. :D
Aaants
Aaants29 Apr 2013, 12:57
That's one pricey potato! Nice work :)
EdoMiyamoto
EdoMiyamoto29 Apr 2013, 13:48
I really like digging games like this! Great job, i enjoyed :)
Jonathan Whiting
Jonathan Whiting29 Apr 2013, 13:53
Love the idea of mining diamonds to eat potato. Could have done with more signalling that you are low on fuel/hull.
lody
lody29 Apr 2013, 13:57
*ashamed* Economy, upgrades, and mining all in such simply fun package.
theomnis
theomnis29 Apr 2013, 14:05
Not very good at it, but definitely enjoyed it!
richy486
richy48629 Apr 2013, 15:04
Pretty cool, I haven't played a game like this before. Also love the music
ananasblau
ananasblau29 Apr 2013, 15:09
interesting game, but it is far from being fun to play. I die without much reason. Moving through previously dug tiles costs as much fuel as digging through a tile. I have no sense of how much my thing is damaged and hence don't know when I'm close to implode or something.

You got an interesting game idea though, and with a few improvements it can easily become a success on kongregate.

PS: sorry if I sound a bit harsh.
Nanolotl
Nanolotl29 Apr 2013, 15:10
Fun concept. With a bit more polish, such as adding more feedback for showing when you have low fuel or damaged hull, it could have been more enjoyable.
The music was a bit repetitive.
kewryauthor29 Apr 2013, 15:23
Thanks for the feedback and all messages so far! It really helps out.

@ananasblau harsh is good sometimes :D

@Nanolotl I made the music using Otomata then sticking in the pieces together quite near the submission time so it didn't come out so good, also I'm terrible at art/music making so this theme helped quite a lot :D
gizmo29 Apr 2013, 16:04
a minimal iDigit! very promising, i would love to see a more refined version of it.
josefnpat
josefnpat29 Apr 2013, 16:07
I was unable to read any of the text. Silly linux with web.
tonic29 Apr 2013, 16:10
Haha, it's very nice for a while!
LZAntal
LZAntal29 Apr 2013, 16:27
Fun digging game. Could not figure out how to get more fuel but who cares I was just keep playing it over and over. Nicely done.
gilmore60629 Apr 2013, 18:23
Very nice minimal game, does a lot with a little. I was disappointed there were not more expensive upgrades, I was fully upgraded as soon as I figured out what was going on. Still, nice work!
pereubu29 Apr 2013, 18:28
liked it, it's addictive :D
Michael Hall29 Apr 2013, 18:31
Very nice, reminds me of Motherload. I didn't get the potato though, it told me I dug too deep even though my hull was fully upgraded. Oh well...
BortStudios29 Apr 2013, 18:31
Good game, it kept me retrying to do better
Covenant29 Apr 2013, 19:10
I enjoyed this one very much... a lot of fun, with some more stuff this game could be really awesome...
I died too many times for not noticing the hull damage, maybe an alert sound whenn you're down to 25% or so...
Great job!
mrexcessive29 Apr 2013, 19:10
Agree doesn't work on Chrome. IE seemed ok.
TheSheep
TheSheep29 Apr 2013, 19:15
The text on all the buttons and in the game is unreadable in the web version, which makes it rather hard to figure it out.
McFunkypants
McFunkypants29 Apr 2013, 22:18
Cool game! I was running in Chrome and the performance was excellent. Would love more feedback for when you're about to die. Keep up the great work.
Folis
Folis30 Apr 2013, 14:14
A very fun game, even though it's rather easy to beat. Enjoyed it while it lasted!

(NOTE: Don't you ever make me download Chrome ever again. :p)
comrad_gremlin30 Apr 2013, 16:50
Turned out very fun to play :)
Kudos, man!
nilstastic30 Apr 2013, 18:46
Nice digging game, I liked it a lot but I was not very good at it :)
jhrrsn
jhrrsn1 May 2013, 00:37
This game is excellent. It's so therapeutic to play, and well thought out. I left guilty when I ate the last potato and the game was over
plop
plop13 May 2013, 09:23
The lack of warnings made it kind of unreasonably hard (hard in a not-enjoyable way) but it's a pretty good game other than that. The lack of warnings does give an element of planning ahead :P
StMatn20 May 2013, 00:03
Nice game! The audio was really cool. The game is beaten a bit too quick, but its fun anyway. Good job!
Purplescape
Purplescape20 May 2013, 22:18
This game is cool, I enjoyed it. That potato may have been expensive but it was worth it.

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