{"author_link":"\/author\/thephantom\/","author_name":"thephantom","author_uid":"21553","comments":[{"author_name":"increpare","author_uid":"492","time":"Apr 28, 2014 @ 10:54am","epoch":1398682140,"text":"how do i get past the first level?  i'm just seeing a horizontal plane - i can move to the right of the screen, but that just restarts it. i tried digging a bit, but didn't see anything."},{"author_name":"thephantom","author_uid":"21553","time":"Apr 28, 2014 @ 1:55pm","epoch":1398693000,"text":"sorry , it seems there was a bug in the game \r<br\/>i re uploaded it and it should work fine now"},{"author_name":"bzizizi","author_uid":"6411","time":"Apr 29, 2014 @ 8:32am","epoch":1398760020,"text":"You have to carefully dig to not screw up."},{"author_name":"SFBTom","author_uid":"5018","time":"Apr 30, 2014 @ 11:17am","epoch":1398856320,"text":"OK, so as far as I can tell, you can't dig through those protruding blocks in the 2nd\/3rd levels, even though you can dig under them through soil of the same type? I'd suggest some  different colouring there if it was intentional, or maybe it was just a bug? \r<br\/>\r<br\/>The pacing of the game was a little too slow too. Not just the speed of the character, but the rate at which difficulty increased.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>The mechanics were solid once I got used to them though! Digging felt pretty good, especially digging under all the enemies!"},{"author_name":"Zerkruemler","author_uid":"27446","time":"May 14, 2014 @ 7:06am","epoch":1400050860,"text":"The learning slope is to steep. Level 0 is of no use and level 3 is already too difficult.\r<br\/>Solid idea, but would need some tuning to the gameplay."}],"images":["ld29\/21553-693777ee286714fd2817dbaee5a29bce.jpg","ld29\/21553-d4cba8fc1ed1a247aa768d3fd5fc715a.jpg","ld29\/21553-837c15697e1fcf03a7345250bb7e7dd8.jpg","ld29\/21553-2e0d9c0b5b004c028ae7ecac6cd622c3.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.newgrounds.com\/projects\/games\/765795\/preview","text":"Web"},{"url":"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/sh\/h3pb80sp6qwxyv1\/tBjxEcowmg","text":"Source"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"20642","g_author":"21553","g_event":"LD29","g_eventkey":"22","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"20671","g_title":"the miner and the king ","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"99999","g_commentcount":"5","g_site2_node_id":"0","g_hide":"N","g_has_icon":"Y","g_rqueue":"0","g_random":"0"},"nds":[],"node":null,"orig_images":["http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/342546\/21553-shot0.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/342546\/21553-shot1.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/342546\/21553-shot2.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/342546\/21553-shot3.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"\"the miner and the king \" is a game for ludum dare 29 theme \"beneath the surface \" , the games was made in the first day .\r\nthere was actually a whole story that describe the levels in a narrative way but it was removed due to the lack of time :(\r\n\r\ncontrols : \r\nW , A ,S ,D movements \r\nG + direction  ==> dig\r\nH   ==> add block (starts from level 6)\r\nj   ==> shoots stones (starts from level 10)\r\n\r\nyou can press r to reset if you got stuck \r\n\r\nin level 11 and 12 you have to collect at least 10 diamonds to proceed \r\n\r\n","title":"the miner and the king "}