Bobs Incident

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.08
Fun★★★★★★★★★★2.89
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★2.81
Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.48
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.10
Audio★★★★★★★★★★2.45
Humor★★★★★★★★★★2.65
Mood★★★★★★★★★★2.74
Coolness★★★★★★★★★★52%
Bobs flooded the mine! Help him reach the surface before he drowns! Make your way from the bottom of the mine pit, smashing blocks that are in your way with your pick axe but watch out for the water creeping up on you!

Keyboard
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Arrow Keys - Move Left/Right
Spacebar - Jump
Z - Use pickaxe

Controller
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Left Stick - Move Left/Right
A - Jump
B - Use pickaxe

Comments31

vinull
vinull27 Apr 2014, 22:54
I drown a lot.
shane1090author28 Apr 2014, 10:24
Thanks for playing vinull! The key is getting a good start - I did tweak the speed of the rising water just before submission as I thought it was too easy! You can 'double' jump your way up from walls if you get the timing right.
Zolkren28 Apr 2014, 12:59
Cool game.
weazen28 Apr 2014, 13:00
I found myself enjoying this a lot. Would have liked a High Score or something to see how I did compared to my previous attempts.
Marcus_siactro28 Apr 2014, 13:45
After I realized that you can waalljump I hade great fun with this one! :)
zinfandel
zinfandel28 Apr 2014, 13:47
Really hard! Very cool mechanic but it's so fast, even with double jumping I keep drowning. I would add the ability to dig on the tile above you and also let you stay in the water longer before you die.
I also love the sprite :)
Liens
Liens28 Apr 2014, 13:51
Wow very hard game. Maybe give a little more time before the water arrives?
OhFiddleDiddle
OhFiddleDiddle28 Apr 2014, 14:02
Some kind of height score would have made this much more addicting, good work though. :)
superzac28 Apr 2014, 14:52
Good mechanic controls are solid, but the water is really fast!
doktormandrake28 Apr 2014, 14:54
Poor bob
lamphj
lamphj28 Apr 2014, 20:56
Very cool game... the water moved too fast for me :(
Xaychru04
Xaychru0429 Apr 2014, 17:15
Nice game, would have been better with some procedural generation, but I enjoyed it anyway! Good job. :)
shane1090author29 Apr 2014, 18:08
@Xaychru04 the level is randomly generated each time - you can press 'R' at anytime during play to get a new level.
Monoquartz29 Apr 2014, 21:57
Oh my god! Bob will hate me because of my several attempts to drown him xD I think the ability to dig a block on top is a missing feature which help me a lot ;) But i think the game would be too easy otherwise. Great game though ! :D
nimblegorilla1 May 2014, 01:21
This game looks cool, but the pickaxe is kind of hard to use because most of the time you want to go up and not sideways.
ovenchips
ovenchips1 May 2014, 07:42
Aiiiii! I'm really good at drowning in this game! Super hard but hard to resist trying again - very addictive. Nice cutesy graphics. A difficulty curve might help a bit but other than that, really great entry. Well done!!!
joe40001
joe400011 May 2014, 08:02
Good game, at first I thought the game was too hard, then I realized that wall-jumping wasn't a bug but a feature. Then the balance seemed right.
Linus Lindberg1 May 2014, 09:36
Wow very nice! Great mechanics, cute graphics, and very hard :P
gettothechapel1 May 2014, 09:44
i like the game, although getting somewhere past the first 5 layers is hard as balls. good job! it ket me playing for a while :)
tomvert
tomvert1 May 2014, 12:09
Good arcade game, you should add a score or a meter, to have a sense of progression, also the water arrives too quickly at start. Keep it up ! :)
MonsieurS1 May 2014, 14:35
I second the idea of being able to dig above you. :) It's quite frantic as it is.
SecondDimension
SecondDimension1 May 2014, 16:42
Don't know why but I found it really hard, still fun to play and nice graphics.
Gaming_Ray1 May 2014, 16:45
Cool game, a bit hard, but pretty fun.
eriksundqvist1 May 2014, 18:29
The controls could be tweaked a bit, otherwise nice concept.
bombjack
bombjack1 May 2014, 19:51
I like the pixel art!
tripleVisionGames2 May 2014, 21:37
Add a timer for survival time so I can try and survive longer and I might just play this all day instead of working!
trueyomic3 May 2014, 21:22
Jumping with space and mining with 'z' is a very awkward control scheme. It led to dying a lot. The water rose too fast as well to get anywhere meaningful. Nice pixel art though.
rujo12 May 2014, 07:59
very cool design

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