Dark Moles!

Overall★★★★★★★★★★2.98
Fun★★★★★★★★★★2.96
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★2.70
Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.21
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.85
Audio★★★★★★★★★★2.13
Humor★★★★★★★★★★2.76
Mood★★★★★★★★★★2.55
Coolness★★★★★★★★★★85%
Dark Moles was built with PhaserJS by a team of two developers (thanks Ben!) and an awesome illustrator (thanks Jessie!). The premise is pretty simple -- whack-a-mole with bombs!

This was the first time any of us had built a game, much less in 48 hours, and it was a total blast. We'll definitely be participating in #30!

Source:
https://github.com/ninjascribble/LudumDare-29

Tools:
PhaserJS: http://phaser.io
SFXr: http://www.drpetter.se/project_sfxr.html
Littera: http://kvazars.com/littera

Resources:
Kenney Donation Pack: http://kenney.itch.io/kenney-donation

Comments24

pancakecity
pancakecity28 Apr 2014, 20:05
Those moles are evil!! Good game!
Nelly28 Apr 2014, 22:55
Nice!! But it's too hard at my mind) Moles must die)))
BallpointPress29 Apr 2014, 06:04
I'm trying to branch out from diving games. I almost made a game like this but it was going to be horrible lovecraftian worms and such bursting forth and you'd have to burn them. Then I realized that was a huge part of the terrible ALONE IN THE DARK remake from 2008 which I bought for full price. Ugh!
GertJohnny
GertJohnny29 Apr 2014, 06:05
I do enjoy a good mole bombing every once in a while. I couldn't figure out where the hitboxes were on those darn moles though, i'd see it explode right overtop of them, but they kept on living.
Xeke_Death29 Apr 2014, 08:39
I got to level 3, walked into my own bomb and got spat on... Oh well, at least I blew up some moles on the way...
Game looks great...!
pandavigoureux
pandavigoureux29 Apr 2014, 08:46
Nice graphics. If I could give an advice, you should think about mapping the arrows for moving next time, because AZERTY players also exist :)
Lucariatias
Lucariatias29 Apr 2014, 21:39
Very, hard, couldn't pass the second level. ALso, very repetitive and not very original.
That said, for a first game it's pretty decent.
mrbungle
mrbungle29 Apr 2014, 21:40
Come on little girl, kill those evil, green spit flinging underground dwellers! Liking the graphics.
ninjascriptauthor29 Apr 2014, 21:54
@pandavigoureux, sorry about that! We'll definitely include alternate control schemes in all our future games.
Gins29 Apr 2014, 23:00
Very hard, but a cool idea :) Whack-the-Mole, I have played a million times, but Bomb-The-Mole is new :)
zedutchgandalf
zedutchgandalf30 Apr 2014, 07:28
This gets hard really fast :P
Looks great though!
VanMerwan
VanMerwan30 Apr 2014, 08:06
Nice art. The hitbox of the character is maybe too big.
Baknik1 May 2014, 04:34
It was a bit hard to figure out where the bomb would land, but great job overall!
mark.goetz
mark.goetz3 May 2014, 18:06
Hey, congrats on completing your first game (this was my first LD as well)! The artwork is really good, and I especially love the mole popping in and out animation. I think it's a little frustrating to time the bomb explosion to when I thought a mole would appear. I was essentially throwing bombs at random. But you did a good job with scaling the difficulty - one mole, then several moles on one side of you, then moles all over.
stvr
stvr4 May 2014, 03:24
That adorable paraplegic is really vicious towards those moles!
MaesK
MaesK4 May 2014, 12:43
Nice whack-a-mole! Bombs can fix everything everywhere in gaming :D

I got confused with controls, I didn't thought you can control the direction of bombs with the mouse position, so the moles defeated me easily. Now I'll make them pay.

Good work!
matthias_zarzecki6 May 2014, 16:36
Love the character-design :D
psychonull7 May 2014, 01:41
Liked having that delay in the bomb to explode. Level 3 is really hard!
gre
gre10 May 2014, 20:51
Great concept! Nice improvement of the original whack-a-mole.
Very cool that the bomb can also kill your player and is part of the gameplay, you didn't miss that :-) And mole are firing snot! nice :-P
Graphics are sweet.
end3r
end3r18 May 2014, 14:14
Firt level is too easy, the second one is crazy! Really nice looking game

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