RAD - Robot Assisted Digging

by pinion
Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.19
Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.11
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.71
Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.51
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★2.09
Audio★★★★★★★★★★2.26
Humor★★★★★★★★★★1.83
Mood★★★★★★★★★★2.42
Coolness★★★★★★★★★★60%
My first game using HaxeFlixel.

Sounds made in BFXR.

Tiles made in Paint.net

Notes:

Didn't have much time to work on it on Sunday so there aren't any sprite graphics.

I tried to put in support for you AZERTY users, hopefully it works ok!

If you find a bug where the player keeps moving, just press the movement keys until it stops. I couldn't replicate so I couldn't fix it, sorry!

RAD - Robot Assisted Digging

CONTROLS:

Arrow keys to move,

WASD (or ZQSD for AZERTY) to fire mining robots,

Space to dig out nearby using a bomb

Enter to retire to your house (you must stand on it)

HOW TO PLAY:

Try to get all the gold before running out of supplies across 3 levels.

Pick up pings to detect the deposits

Use robots to dig earth

Robots are destroyed by digging rocks

Robots stop when out of fuel, pick them back up

When stopped they act as local detectors

Once you are out of robots and bombs, or you have all the gold go to the house and press Enter to finish

Comments21

LewisG040028 Apr 2014, 17:14
Fun and quite hard sometimes.
colludium28 Apr 2014, 17:14
I enjoyed the retro theme. Good fun.
gmaker28 Apr 2014, 17:14
Great and fun!))) 16/20 ))
Zupoman28 Apr 2014, 17:15
Interesting concept.
DragonXVI
DragonXVI28 Apr 2014, 17:20
57 loot overall! Nifty idea, good memory mechanic. Would've been cool to see new obstacles in the other levels.
whalebot
whalebot28 Apr 2014, 17:26
This is a pretty solid game. It runs well and has a good mechanic, although it would be nice to have a little bit more detailed sprites for the character, house, and robots. I thought the mechanic was well implemented, although there technically is no way to lose (although that's not necessarily a bad thing :) ) All things considered, I think it was well done.
longshorts
longshorts28 Apr 2014, 17:42
Good fun! There is a bug sometimes where the player moves in one direction constantly, but it can be fixed by spamming the movement keys. A nice little puzzle to pass the time.
Sodaware
Sodaware29 Apr 2014, 00:08
The core gameplay is all there and quite fun, even with the basic graphics it has. It definitely has a lot of potential!
wheelsx29 Apr 2014, 04:48
If this came out as an atari game back in the day, it would have been revolutionary. It's quite fun, I'm a sucker for true retro games.
stvr
stvr29 Apr 2014, 15:36
Good use of tilemap destruction, and provides an interesting resource management problem. Maybe there should have been a 'gate' to the next level, like collect X gold to progress?
MSaul
MSaul29 Apr 2014, 18:09
I got a really bad memory :/, hard and fun game. (AZERTY work well)
petrih29 Apr 2014, 18:30
Like it!
Covenant29 Apr 2014, 18:33
Excelent entry, with some more polish/mechanics, this could be awesome! Nice going!
Stuffie
Stuffie29 Apr 2014, 18:37
Great game, though I wasn't sure what the green squares were, they usually just turned out to be dang rocks :D. Really fun though GJ!.
Ismei29 Apr 2014, 19:33
I liked having to remember where everything was (although I found it easier when there were blocks) and having to go and pick up the robots to reuse them. I enjoyed playing this game.
01010111
0101011129 Apr 2014, 20:09
Really cool idea for a game, it was a bit tough for me, but I really like the mechanics.
dector
dector29 Apr 2014, 23:03
Liked this idea.
grozamorei
grozamorei30 Apr 2014, 06:07
Interest idea. Good game!
badlydrawnrod30 Apr 2014, 22:10
Interesting mechanic. It took me a while to figure out what I was supposed to be doing, but once I got there I quite enjoyed the concept. It would be interesting to see what you do with this post-compo.
csanyk
csanyk14 May 2014, 02:29
Really good! I got 19/20 and a rare on the first try:) A bit of strategy and a lot of memory.
xhunterko
xhunterko17 May 2014, 09:48
Good idea! The controls snagged on me a little but I was able to recover and keep playing. Not bad!

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