Digable Planet by Oddly Shaped Pixels
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IMPORTANT: If you don't have a mouse or a mousewheel play the Post Compo version!
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The Galactic Governor has spoken: you're Mankind's only hope! Find the artefact (small purple jelly beans) buried deep beneath the surface of this unstable planet to give Mankind a chance for a brighter future!
Hint: There are several artefacts buried on the planet but only one will save Mankind's future! It sure won't be the first, it may be the second but it will definitely be the third one you found!!
Hint #2: If you don't succeed don't give up, you can do it! Finding the right artefact is worth the try!
To achieve your mission, you'll have to manage your resources, iron (blue rocks) and gold (orange rocks), in order to build machines that will help you find the artefacts :
- a Digger: allows you to drill and pick up resources. Careful, you don't want to drill the planet core!
- a Radar: it will give you a pretty good view of what lies beneath the surface
- a Cooler: if the planet core becomes out of control, coolers help it maintaining a reasonable size
- a Tower: as you'll see, you're not welcome by the planet natives. A tower will help you eliminate those who dare attack your machines!
When you don't need a machine anymore or if you want a digger to stop digging, you can destroy/sell it by positioning the mouse on it and left clicking. If the machine hasn't got any damage, you'll be refunded of half its cost.
Controls
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The game only plays with the mouse:
: Build a machine or Sell the current selected machine
: Browse the 4 different machines
: Restart
POST-COMPO
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After some feedback I've made a post compo version with alternate controls (especially useful if you don't have a mouse or a mouse wheel), some small bug corrections and a nice alert when a digger is about to drill the planet's core.
IMPORTANT: If you don't have a mouse or a mousewheel play the Post Compo version!
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The Galactic Governor has spoken: you're Mankind's only hope! Find the artefact (small purple jelly beans) buried deep beneath the surface of this unstable planet to give Mankind a chance for a brighter future!
Hint: There are several artefacts buried on the planet but only one will save Mankind's future! It sure won't be the first, it may be the second but it will definitely be the third one you found!!
Hint #2: If you don't succeed don't give up, you can do it! Finding the right artefact is worth the try!
To achieve your mission, you'll have to manage your resources, iron (blue rocks) and gold (orange rocks), in order to build machines that will help you find the artefacts :
- a Digger: allows you to drill and pick up resources. Careful, you don't want to drill the planet core!
- a Radar: it will give you a pretty good view of what lies beneath the surface
- a Cooler: if the planet core becomes out of control, coolers help it maintaining a reasonable size
- a Tower: as you'll see, you're not welcome by the planet natives. A tower will help you eliminate those who dare attack your machines!
When you don't need a machine anymore or if you want a digger to stop digging, you can destroy/sell it by positioning the mouse on it and left clicking. If the machine hasn't got any damage, you'll be refunded of half its cost.
Controls
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The game only plays with the mouse:
POST-COMPO
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After some feedback I've made a post compo version with alternate controls (especially useful if you don't have a mouse or a mouse wheel), some small bug corrections and a nice alert when a digger is about to drill the planet's core.
Ratings
| Coolness | 100% | 1 |
| Overall | 3.75 | 124 |
| Audio | 3.50 | 149 |
| Fun | 3.49 | 210 |
| Graphics | 3.93 | 130 |
| Humor | 3.08 | 218 |
| Innovation | 3.76 | 133 |
| Mood | 3.21 | 356 |
| Theme | 3.81 | 129 |
Using the wheel for changing structures was very clumsy (specially because sometimes the wheel would rotate around instead of going to the next item) and I wish there was another way to do this (maybe keyboard or pressing on the icons).
If you're interested, I've added controls remapping to my game 'Greed for Gems' as a post-compo feature. You said you couldn't play it before, now you can!
Very challenging, perhaps using 1,2,3 and 4 as shortcuts for the buildings would be useful.
For those that find it difficult, here's a tip: try not to rush to get the artefacts, gather some resources first and then go and get them!
I've made a Post Compo version with alternate controls, especially to select the machines so now you can use the arrow keys or the 1-4 keys.
@pansapiens I wanted to do that but didn't have the time in the 48h. But it's now done in the Post compo version, thank's for reminding me of that!!
Really great art & music too!
It was a bit difficult to get into it at first, but once you find out how things work it becomes really engaging.
I've tried to explain the mechanics better in the game description but the ingame indications are indeed not really well detailed.
@Therrato
Also, from the beginning <R> restart the game but I forgot to mention it in the description!! Sorry
Took a bit to get used to but got the hang of it in the rest. Good overall I'd say. Great Job!
On the other side, graphics are great, and I see the strategy in it. Just, my brain and my hand somehow refuse to work together and I can't beat it.
I also liked the little bottom-right guy.
Good job.
Really nice work! :)
The gameplay was a bit confusing at first and it took me some time to understand how I had to manage my resources. But once I got it, it was quite a fun game.
The pixel art is great, the texts fit fine, the gameplay is well balanced and the music is amazing!
My favorite entry so far! :D
On my second playthrough I spent too much on radars and then couldn't do anything else other than wait for the game to end. "Selling" the radars didn't seem to return any resources to me, it just destroyed the radar.
I think this game would be a lot more accessible if you could add a tutorial for it, which introduced the different elements one at a time. It does seem quite polished though & feels very complete. Good work for 48 hours!