Drills and Gadgets

by rngames
Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.91
Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.87
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.48
Theme★★★★★★★★★★4.04
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★4.07
Audio★★★★★★★★★★3.32
Humor★★★★★★★★★★2.93
Factory Inc. is back at it again with another... troublesome challenge. Guide a drill to a massive diamond lying deep under the Earth's surface, while dodging giant worms and collecting resources and upgrades to help you along your journey.

Link: https://rn-games.itch.io/drills-and-gadgets

Comments17

Swordfish
Swordfish26 Apr 2021, 02:42
I liked the controls, felt really intuitive. It was pretty good overall. I got a bit of a bug where my trail disappeared after I hit a rock. Thought you would want to know. It reminds me of a flash game called motherload. Just curious if that was an inspiration.
Venezia27 Apr 2021, 11:12
Felt cool to play. Got a bit hectic deeper down which felt fun. Took a couple plays to figure out the controls, but was fun overall :) good work!
welby
welby27 Apr 2021, 19:42
All the art in this game looks rly good, and I like having to make hard decisions about what to drill or buy. I kind of wish the side-to-side movements were faster or costed less though.
Brad Make Games
Brad Make Games27 Apr 2021, 22:54
This game is incredibly polished! I really like the art, it is basic but really charming and works great for this kind of game. The sounds are all really enjoyable and fit the game well. The gameplay is somewhat addicting and a lot of fun, but does seem to lack some depth. Overall this was a great entry!
Paroxysmal
Paroxysmal28 Apr 2021, 02:22
Overall good...are there keyboard controls to move the drill, it was kind of annoying having to not laser to move.
Wheffle
Wheffle28 Apr 2021, 02:28
This is really excellent. Super simple but strategic, easy to understand, good challenge, and diverse content. Even the changing soil as you go deeper adds a lot of juice to the game. I didn't feel the need to move side-to-side much, so maybe there could have been something that incentivized that more. I also got too many drill upgrades too quickly on one run and never had time to clear obstacles and enemies, but that's just a strategic blunder on my part. Well done, I played this quite a bit!
Glaikunt
Glaikunt28 Apr 2021, 08:43
Great game! Could have done with a scoring system but the game is super well done!
Iluvatar
Iluvatar28 Apr 2021, 08:46
Very simple but very entertaining! I really got into it and couldn't stop. Love the pretty graphics and intuitive controls. Sound effect also feel satisfying. Maybe it would be cool to add some more challenges or make the game more challenging. Even though it was entertaining, it felt very easy and I felt too powerful. But other tha that, very cool game.
NoCymer29 Apr 2021, 01:09
nice game, love the fighting system, well done!
incobalt
incobalt29 Apr 2021, 01:35
Hey, this is fairly good! I think you could turn this into a polished packaged game if you wanted to! I will say that the game was a bit long on my screen (I guess you're intending it to be played on a phone?). The gameplay is a bit solid, though I was hoping to find some ship powerups along the way (stronger laser specifically!) Maybe they're there and I just didn't find them. I ran into two bugs. After I blew up and restarted once, my ship was entirely white for the next attempt. The other bug was that I had discovered you could move your ship on accident, and the next run the ship moved into that position. Something's not getting reset between runs. (Side note: there doesn't seem like a compelling reason to ever move your ship, so I don't know why that's an option.)
Srynetix
Srynetix29 Apr 2021, 16:48
Cool game ! The art is really clean and polished, it could completely work as a mobile game using the touchscreen.
Maybe some variations on the powerups could be nice :wink:
Jin9310
Jin931030 Apr 2021, 07:37
It took me few runs to figure out what is doing what. Perhaps that could be nice to have bit more tooltips here and there, but I was able to get it pretty soon. It is hard, it is challenging and really nice take on the theme. I like that you have to control everything with basically one button as it makes the degree of multitasking high! I did not make it till the end, but great job did here! I think you have solid base even for some post-jam update.
ondy198530 Apr 2021, 14:09
Really nice game. It took me a good while to learn that I am supposed to mine the minerals to buy poweraps and move left and right. After that, it was good fun. Some tutorial would be great.

EDIT: I see the instructions are there, I just skipped it in the beginning :face_palm:
ScalphaMission
ScalphaMission30 Apr 2021, 14:14
wow! by some strange coincidence, this looks eerily similar to a project I worked on a while back, but yours is more fleshed out than mine was.
GeneralSturgeon30 Apr 2021, 14:19
Really liked it, got me hooked for a couple of runs! Nice sense of progression. Was a bit confusing at the start, maybe a more interactive tutorial would make the experience a bit more smooth. Great work!
Wuppos
Wuppos5 May 2021, 09:41
Really good game! Well done :D

It was very addictive and just fun to play. It became stressful at times when there was both a rock in the way and enemies coming towards you. Especially when you introduced those enemies that moved faster everything became really hectic. On top of that you also have to collect resources to keep fuel topped up, and keep your health high. This I often forgot >_
txanevk
txanevk7 May 2021, 18:30
I like the style of the game, graphics are pretty. It has nice game mechanics. Searching for the right ore to mine to unlock resources is a great way to keep the attention on what is happening. I enjoyed it a lot.

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