Almost A Digging Game

Overall★★★★★★★★★★2.39

Fun★★★★★★★★★★2.57

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★2.06

Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.31

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★2.44

Mood★★★★★★★★★★2.18

Welcome to Almost a Digging Game!

Choose you difficulty between Deep, Deeper and Deeper and Deeper.

Try to get to the bottom in the least amount of time with the fewest deaths.

Controls:

Use 'A', 'S' and 'D' to dig down.

Encounter a rock and blow it up with a bomb 'B'. Just don't blow yourself up in the process.

I had to work all weekend so only had a few hours to dedicate to this. Happy with the results for my first game jam, but I really wish I could get the music to work. Oh well. Better luck next time I suppose. Happy Ludum Dare 48 everyone!!!!

Tags: #my first game jam, #speedrun

Tools: Unity

Comments15

bufalloo27 Apr 2021, 04:09

is there a way to reduce the sensitivity of lateral movement? great job on the level generation

angrySandwich28 Apr 2021, 04:17

Yeah, definitely really sensitive on the side motion! LOL
But I liked the pixel art!!!
Great game! :)

Fatebreak28 Apr 2021, 17:55

Fun little game. Character moves really fast and it's pretty easy to end up in a hole you have to bomb yourself in. Still worth a play. Nicely done!

Divagated28 Apr 2021, 18:10

Nice game. the horizontal movement is a bit sensitive and hard to control. Half the time I would get stuck in a 1x1 and be forced to bomb myself out lol.

mosaic28 Apr 2021, 22:13

Great Game for the first time and in a limited timeframe! It has some kind of puzzle element where you have to choose were to go to not have to blow yourself up. I liked that. As the others said, the lateral movement is a bit hard to control. Maybe snapping to a grid would have worked better. Good Job on your first jam!

DoctorTM28 Apr 2021, 22:15

Nice jam! For a first jam with only a few hours of work this is good! Indeed some sounds and music are missing.

Tubertz28 Apr 2021, 22:16

controls are a little wonky but impressive for 16 hours, wish it had sound

Foopy28 Apr 2021, 22:30

Cool concept. I only managed to win after a few tries just for it to say NullReferenceException, very funny. Not being able to throw the bomb toward a direction is kind of a bummer and a randomly generated terrain doesn't always work for these kind of puzzles. Controls and some minor problems are holding it back but the puzzle element is there. Very good try for your first game jam.

Lintfordpickle30 Apr 2021, 08:14

I liked the concept too, and the fact the level stayed the same after dying was pretty cool. I feel the gravity should have been a little stronger, and I wish there was a jump ability to avoid getting stuck in little rock wells.

deadmanjw30 Apr 2021, 08:18

Initially i didnt know what the keys where as i tend not to read the game descriptions before playing or what i was meant to be doing but after a bit a managed to figure it out. With some more work (animation / sound / control scheme) this would be a good little digger game. Nice work.

NuclearRedeye1 May 2021, 12:09

Nice concept, movement is a little quick and I can't help but think that the game could benefit from allowing you to jump.

CaptAndrey2 May 2021, 18:43

➕ great theme fit

➕ simple but cool mechanics combination

➕ good graphics

➖ bugged movement

➖ no progress metric

BDenis5 May 2021, 06:53

Yea you could make control less sensitive, but otherwise good game

m-trigo8 May 2021, 15:45

I liked the name for the game and the difficulties!

I think the movement would have worked better as tile-based instead of linear.

All the same, good job putting out a game with the limited time you had! Congratulations

rhoff9517 May 2021, 21:41

Cool game. I would really appreciate visual feedback for what the player actions are doing to the environment.