Shovel Quest

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.91
Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.91
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.11
Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.80
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.98
Audio★★★★★★★★★★2.81
Humor★★★★★★★★★★3.29
Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.37
Coolness★★★★★★★★★★100%
Delve into the ground and collect all 16 artifacts.

Controls:
WASD/Arrows - Movement
Mouse - Aiming
Left Click/Space - Attack

Comments41

mrcrazyscience27 Apr 2014, 17:14
Great game fun and surprising. Great job
FyberOptic28 Apr 2014, 04:37
Great game. You've come up with some neat mechanics, which go along well with the visuals and gameplay. I also enjoy the sense of humor. I've never been a prouder owner of a vintage coat hanger.
lparker28 Apr 2014, 04:40
Great game!
GlowingSnail28 Apr 2014, 07:32
The engine is fast and responsive, that feels good. The blocky 3D engine with pixellated texture, while not original, is kinda cute. Passing the levels require a bit of thinking each time, which is good. Good entry overall!
GlowingSnail28 Apr 2014, 07:33
Thank you for supporting arrow keys. Could you also support non-wide screen-resolutions please?
thristhart
thristhart28 Apr 2014, 07:39
Great style! I feel like the appearance would be significantly less weird if the hand that's attached to the body pivoted with the shovel hand instead. I can tell if I liked a game if I am willing to retry it after dying - and I was immediately willing to give this another go. Didn't make it past 14/16 artifacts, but I had fun anyway. Big fan of the pikmin-style artifact names. Definitely the funniest entry I've played so far.
psychopsam28 Apr 2014, 12:21
What a great game. I really like the graphics and style. Reminds me of Pitfall. Super polished too. Great work.
Korwegian28 Apr 2014, 14:48
Very VERY well done. Can you send me an envelope of butter-like substance? I need it for... for science... for to looking at it...
marccspro
marccspro29 Apr 2014, 16:40
Nice game well play ;)
Marcus_siactro30 Apr 2014, 07:58
Now this one was great! I had a lot of zelda and soul blazer feels while playing this game. Great work
Frump30 Apr 2014, 08:01
The targeting is a bit strange but I had a lot of fun with this. Good job!
MintArcade
MintArcade30 Apr 2014, 08:13
Very nice game, cute graphics
Contacaton30 Apr 2014, 08:17
That poor spider at the end XD
Covenant1 May 2014, 13:04
Loved it! The graphics were awesome, and the gameplay was solid.
Only complaint is that the controls could be a little tighter, but very good work nevertheless! :)
TheGreenTie
TheGreenTie1 May 2014, 13:09
Holy crap! That was fun! Probably one of my top 5!
Just a reminder, don't make mouse-based games without a fullscreen option, I found myself clicking outside the game while fighting spiders...
tomvert
tomvert1 May 2014, 13:16
Interesting, made me think of zelda games (the bomb). I love the art style.
paps1 May 2014, 13:23
love the artifacts, the style, and the puzzle. I did not go very deep though. Very fun to play
mechabit
mechabit2 May 2014, 11:00
I like the 3D graphics and the humor. Fun mechanics.
AutumnGuy4 May 2014, 04:24
Great execution of gameplay, and cute graphics.

Well done! Keep up the hard work!
bob_fish4 May 2014, 04:27
I found 7 on my first try. Very nice game. Great art, sounds and gameplay. Great job!
rojo
rojo4 May 2014, 04:41
Definitely enjoyed this one. I got a laugh out of dirt flavored lipstick. Some background music would have been great, though.
Lacaranian
Lacaranian6 May 2014, 04:53
Cool game. The Pikmin style item descriptions were a nice touch. Kudos!
Troy6 May 2014, 11:45
I adore this game; probably my favorite of this Ludum Dare so far. The environments and art style are great. It was a little tedious when knocking those rocks around the map, particularly when through small openings, or when there were structures/wall obscuring the camera. Otherwise a great play. Fantastic work!
SoupWithBits
SoupWithBits6 May 2014, 12:08
This is quite a game for 48 hours!
Wow! Really well done!
Gap
Gap6 May 2014, 15:04
*High Five =>* Nice graphics, good game :)
VictorDoval6 May 2014, 15:07
Clean and fun!I Loved the cube style!
Belvar6 May 2014, 15:11
Impressive entry with great graphics. The gameplay is very smooth and fun to play.
xdegtyarev
xdegtyarev7 May 2014, 22:08
Cute characters and the style pretty neat! Well done!
Jeremias
Jeremias9 May 2014, 14:14
A solid game. The artifacts made me smile everytime :D sometimes the camera angle makes it a bit difficult to see paths or gaps.
Garris10 May 2014, 02:57
Good. Game. Would I play again? The short answer is yes. The long answer is yes, please. I'd like to see some music added, but this was a really fun, well-built game.
XenosNS
XenosNS10 May 2014, 02:58
Excellent job! Nice fleshed out concept and great humour
mcapraro
mcapraro10 May 2014, 22:27
i like the overall feel of this game, good work!
JonathanG12 May 2014, 08:01
This is great! It's fun to play and there is a good progression of difficulty. It's packed with humour too!
copain
copain13 May 2014, 11:29
Simple and fun. Good.
lucidlarva
lucidlarva13 May 2014, 15:10
I loved this a ton. Really nice gameplay and art and sound and design.
joe40001
joe4000114 May 2014, 09:25
Fun game, seems very much inspired by pikmin.
Moosefly17 May 2014, 12:22
As others have already mentioned, it's a solid game. Didn't make it far on my first try, but got all of the artifacts on my second run (with one life to spare even). Nice simple puzzles too.

I did have some issues with it:
- Walls blocked your view in some points.
- The area you could see was quite limited, especially when moving towards the screen I had to move by tapping the key so I wouldn't run into any spiders.
- Could've used a fullscreen option.
- The enemies were somewhat tedious, being able to kill them in maybe three hits would've probably been more fun.
- Ambient background audio or something? Didn't like the walking sound effect.

Anssi@MooseflyGames
SK16Games19 May 2014, 21:56
Love this game :D

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