When you find a cave with magical soil that can plant minerals as plants, what will you do?
The Cave is full of wealth.When you use a bomb to explode a mineral, you can get some money and seed. You can grow minerals through the seed. Your target is Making 1500 coins in 5 minutes.
But the cave is full of danger as well. Some monsters are looking at you in the dark. Be careful ... of your money.
The bomb can destroy everything, itself included. So use it carefully.
If you want to play. Go to Github and download the whole zip.
This was a really fun game! It was just really hard to harvest while enemies are after you. A few times the enemies stuck me to the top of the map and I got stuck until the enemy killed me. Overall a fun game!! :)
It took me a while to properly plan on how to spend the money, and I found myself without bomb or money more than once :laughing: . I would say it could be balanced a bit more. I'm not sure how your algorithm work to spawn enemies, but it felt kinda random.
Could have been nice as well to have stones that heal you instead of giving money.
The visuals are pretty cool, and the sound effects add something.
Nice first time LD entry! I really liked the graphics and premise. Controls were pretty good and smooth. But enemies are pretty ruthless, I think one hit to kill them would be more than enough. Lizards are properly freaky, with their super fast movements, they set the mood nicely when you see them crawling in the background. :)
Great idea, but it's way too hard. The enemies are really tough. Even if I outrun the bats, those snakes kill me in no time. It would be nice to be able to kill them with the dynamite. The different stones that grew were pretty cool. I especially liked the snake's animation, when it comes out of the ground.
I'd really suggest you to leave the real link to a Windows build instead of instructions to download one of the zips from the github. You will lose a lot of potential players because of it, and it's not that hard to add the actual link – here it is https://github.com/FoundBowTonight/LD52Codes/raw/main/MineralsPlanter(Windows).zip
The snakes are terrifyingly hard! Some indicator would be good when they come flying from off screen. I like the balancing act of having to plant far apart to properly harvest with the bombs!
The same tool being used for harvesting and defense was nice, but I seemed to be unable to buy more dynamite by pressing R (and having 15 coins), so I couldn't do anything else anymore
Without a way to kill enemies this game is unplayable. I know I can use bombs, but it costs 3 bombs to kill one enemy and they spawn every 5 seconds. So after killing the first two enemies, I'm out of bombs and cash. Then a third enemy spawns and 15 seconds in its already game over for me. If death didn't reset everything it might have been playable.
@bcmpinc Oh, don’t try to kill the enemies. Save your bombs to harvest and buy seeds and plant them as much as you can.You will have much wealth at last.
@found-bow-tonight First time I played it seemed like dodging enemies wouldn't work out. Tried it again an it sort of works. My strategy now was to plant as much as possible, then die, then plant some more, until the last minute. But harvesting then didn't work out as I kept killing myself with the bombs. The dozen snakes and bats around did not help either. For balancing I think it would help if the game limited the number of enemies on screen to about three and maybe some mechanic where you heal over time or harvesting heals.
Nice game! I laughed when I got carried by the "taxi snakes" across the map to where I needed to go. Took a while to figure out how to play, but when I finally did the game was solid enough. Good job over all!
Nice job overall, The enemies felt a little overpowered and in some cases I got swarmed by 5+ enemies on round start. I do like the visuals and the bomb mechanic though. Good job on your first Ludum dare!
I like the art and the lighting which gives depth and overall claustrophobic feel of working in a mine. The controls are responsive, it took a bit to get the hang of it, the enemies really pushed me back and lost track of my direction. Overall great game! keep it up!
The enemies are relentless and the dynamite effect is super satisfying! I'd suggest toning down the enemies at the very beginning so the player can get their footing. Great work on the game!
Crisp clean graphics! Movement! things to see, things to do! Clearly enemies are murdering my little cave miner. I figured out how to plant, but not to harvest No worries. I used that dynamite to kill all enemies!
Very hard, the snakes just bounced me around if I didn't kill myself with the dynamite first 😅 I didn't understand what the seeds did as I couldn't plant them anywhere, my guess is that it's just the number of minerals that spawn? I very much liked the concept and the movement speed and graphics. Very cool!
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Overall a fun game!! :)
It took me a while to properly plan on how to spend the money, and I found myself without bomb or money more than once :laughing: . I would say it could be balanced a bit more. I'm not sure how your algorithm work to spawn enemies, but it felt kinda random.
Could have been nice as well to have stones that heal you instead of giving money.
The visuals are pretty cool, and the sound effects add something.
Good job on your first LD :)
working in a mine. The controls are responsive, it took a bit to get the hang of it, the enemies really pushed me back and lost track of my direction. Overall great game! keep it up!