Super Drill Defense+TM by PIXEL^3

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made by PIXEL^3 for LD29 (JAM)
Take control as some sort of minidrill whose goal is to defend a much larger drill from enemy attacks. That's pretty much it. Unless you want a story or something. Alright, heres a story. We originally planned for you to plant a bomb and blow up the earth, but because of time constraints we had to scrap that. We're serious, we finished with like 10 minutes left. Our programmer really needs to stop being lazy.

How to run:
1) Open folder,
2) double click the only executable in the folder.

Controls:
Left mouse, W, Up, or Space to move and navigate menus.
No idea why you let go of the forward button.
The drill moves towards the mouse.

Tips:
-Attack enemy drills from behind, they turn slower.
-Golems will throw rocks at you if you are close, try and draw their attention towards the walls.
-When the minidrill respawns, you have temporary invincibility. Try to clear out as many enemies as possible in those 2 seconds.

Created by Pixel^3:
-Jellonator(Programming)
-AlucardX60(Art)
-MKSTAR26(Music)

Also make sure to collect powerups, most of them usually help.
if you encounter any bugs or crashes, tell me and I'll throw a bunch of bananas at it and hope it fixes something.

Note for Linux users: it works fine for me, but I'm not sure if I included the right stuff in the folder or not. Please tell me if it works.

Note for Mac users or users who wish to build from source: currently there is no Mac version, so if you could make that for me, that would be great. All of the source files are in /game and /src, while all of the include files are in /game and /include. All of the resources/assets are in /resources. The required libraries are SDL2, SDL2_image, and SDL2_mixer.

Our artist, AlucardX60, made a pixel art timelapse. May contain spoilers, but eh, it's a 72 hour game what spoilers: http://youtu.be/-y0B1b1dzFI
(darn you links for not working)

Ratings

Coolness 56% 3
Overall(Jam) 3.71 89
Audio(Jam) 3.33 252
Fun(Jam) 3.61 77
Graphics(Jam) 3.38 371
Humor(Jam) 2.35 458
Innovation(Jam) 3.42 181
Mood(Jam) 3.12 332
Theme(Jam) 3.65 133

Feedback

terraco
29. Apr 2014 · 02:20 UTC
REALLY unintuitive to control.
snoozbuster
29. Apr 2014 · 03:23 UTC
I like the art! Cute little game.
TheDreik
29. Apr 2014 · 07:22 UTC
Pretty fun game. Is there finish?
Keehan12
29. Apr 2014 · 07:29 UTC
Looooved the artwork and thought the idea was very simple but very fun!!
Dreii
29. Apr 2014 · 08:01 UTC
This was realy cool! I may be biased because I really love drills(gurren lagaan) but i found the gameplay really fun! the controls where a little hard to pick up but I was stupid and diddnt read the description first :p
Dreii
29. Apr 2014 · 08:02 UTC
oh! also it crashes when you finish the game fyi
🎤 PIXEL^3
29. Apr 2014 · 08:56 UTC
@TheDreik: Yes there is. And I worked darn hard on it.

@Dreii: Sorry about that, but that's what happens when you rush at the last minute. We'll fix it ASAP.

~AlucardX60
🎤 PIXEL^3
29. Apr 2014 · 14:23 UTC
The composer would like to grab the attention of any FamiTracker users and point them towards the delicious soundtrack source :) - https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/41669097/Diggerdance.ftm

~MK
TeamOmni
29. Apr 2014 · 18:45 UTC
At first i tried the arrow key to move and it worked horribly.
However the mouse controls were great and had a bit of fun with it, really nice job!
CodeNMore
29. Apr 2014 · 23:19 UTC
Neat little game you got there!
CoderMusgrove
29. Apr 2014 · 23:23 UTC
Complete 5 stars, it was so fun, and so beautiful!
john_conder9
29. Apr 2014 · 23:34 UTC
Fantastic game, fits the theme pretty well. The controls are hard to master I think, but that is reasonable - they feel good, I'm just bad at them. I felt like it took waaaaay too long to get to the lava area, and I couldn't make it past it :(

This is a good entry, great job!
spotco
30. Apr 2014 · 07:51 UTC
Great music (but controls took some getting used to).
Game crashed randomly for me after a few mins of gameplay (Running parallels desktop on mac)
ChuiGum
01. May 2014 · 06:52 UTC
Veyr very nice! Love the graphics, music, the concept, and game. Great Job
Balloonsfor600
03. May 2014 · 20:12 UTC
I was so confused by the controls at the start. Very fun game though!
Cake&Code
03. May 2014 · 21:35 UTC
Pretty neat game. The controls feels a little difficult to maneuver, especially since it does a lot of seemingly extra flips and spins. But I like the concept, and overall it was pretty fun to play! Good job!
Almost
05. May 2014 · 01:57 UTC
The game is pretty cool. It felt really weird when I died because a small rock hit me from behind, although I guess it makes sense. I just sort of assumed that I was stronger than small rocks and only the pink miners could hurt me.
davidB
07. May 2014 · 07:09 UTC
+1 unintuitive controls but pretty fun. May be a "touch" version for android/ios can be done/sell.
Acuity
09. May 2014 · 07:45 UTC
Nice game! I wish there were upgrades or different types of enemies!
Kingtrez
09. May 2014 · 12:37 UTC
Very nice, very challenging. Nice little time wasting game. The controls should have been explained in the game i lost a lot of health just trying to figure out what button i needed to press. Other than that great game :) Best of luck
HybridMind
10. May 2014 · 14:04 UTC
While I was having a bit of fun playing, I was kind of unsure how to play this game. It seems that I only have 4 mini drills and if I defense my mega drill from the pink colored mini drills, I lose a mini drill. If I have a shield I am safe, but shields are not guaranteed. There doesn't seem to be a way to spawn new mini drills and the game just ends after four lives. The times I played, progress seems very tied to luck with getting powerups at the right times instead of skill of attacking the rock throwing robots. I dug the music and the art.
Jupiter_Hadley
11. May 2014 · 17:28 UTC
Pretty cool game, one of the best drill ones I have played so far! I included it in part 23 of my Ludum Dare compilation video series, if you'd like to check it out :) http://youtu.be/yJ4mg8nxxfM
🎤 PIXEL^3
12. May 2014 · 15:12 UTC
Ace, you've outdone yourself - everyone's commenting on how great your graphics are :p

Yeah, it seems we didn't really think this game too well through, but it was a good one to bash out - and it made me compose something VGM-like, finally!

~MK
JoshRespawns
18. May 2014 · 11:52 UTC
great game
Maxom
18. May 2014 · 14:45 UTC
I had a lot of fun, playing this game. Like the fast gameplay and the controls are also very enjoyable! :)