BLAAGH! Just found a huge bug in the game, patch added. You can beat the game now.

Great game! I got to the lava zone and was brutally murdered by a black and white enemy while I was reading a sign.

I'll play it some more later though, since I really want to get to the ending.

I like how you could choose to tunnel around danger (even if that means that Richard's underground trip won't be profitable!) and I loved the mood of the game, I kind of got a roguelike vibe from it.

Also I commend you for being able to finish such a nice game in just 48 hours, even if you had to put it in the Jam category!

Long life to ASCII characters!

@jubjub. Thanks a bunch for the comment!!

@atraxgames ASCII was so it'd be minimalist. I love the look of em' too!

Nice entry!
good audio and gameplay, I enjoyed it.

I'm not sure but I think mi life went lower than 0 and then I died picking a health box (healt == 0) maybe??? :D

Funny. Incidentally also pretty fun, although I got squashed between an enemy and a wall and was insta-killed.

Ahh, totally fell for the first cave-sicle trap! nice game, once i figured out i could hold the mouse button down.

The gameplay mechanic reminded me a lot of Terraria. Really great job on the music.

Fun for a bit.

Pretty nice. I gave up easy but I'll probably give it another go. Sweet game anyway!

It was fun. Like a simple Terraria game.

Game Over...but I won't give up! :)

Damn that Charles Flint. This is one I will be playing a while after the compo

This game has swag

The Intro Music remind me Jazz JackRabbit :) I love your musics.

That was fun !

Oh man, I wanted to really like it but "Game Over" that actually ends the game in 2013? I dug so deep! I'll try it again later but please consider some sort of checkpointing, or at least let player skip the intro text crawl!

Kyyninen Use K to skip the sequence. Thanks for playing! sorry the game over and restarting bit is kinda cheesy.

That was fun and remarkably complete! It reminded me of a few dos games I played in my youth.

I totally *dug* it. Ha ha, did you see what I did there?? I can't help but think there is something more to those Whistlets than meets the eye.

Very cool, and good fun... I picked up a health box and it killed me though, that was a mean trick. Will play again, without picking up health boxes. :)

@muton It's a bug, I think. Everyone seems to suffer from it... It might be that health==0 and since the healths increase by 1, your health might have gone up from -1 to 0, killing you.

Was surprised how well some of the puzzles turned out, had to think my way around a couple of the levels. Got caught one time reading a sign when I got killed. Well Done =]

Good fun. It's a shame the most epic part is the last boss, because so few people are actually gonna see. I remember you from last LD. You're getting better!

Simple yet fun gameplay and an emotionally gripping story. Sadly, I started lagging hard on the third stage (I was playing the Flash version.) I had to exit because of it, so I'm not sure if you ever get the chance to explore rooms to the left and right instead of ones just directly below you. I liked it though, good work!

@Tyro The lag goes away once the little black particles fall offscreen. We couldn't really find a way around it, sorry :\

But thanks for the feedback!

It takes a bit long to get back in to the game given how many times you're likely to die.

@MagiMaster Push K to skip the intro.

Super fun and charming. Reminds me a bit of the ZZT days. I was really bummed though that GAME OVER meant starting all the way at the beginning. I don't have time for that unfortunately. I would've kept playing if there were at least a couple continues. Great job though, it was fun to dig and attack with the mouse.

Really really fun and addiciting. It was challenging and kept me wanting to play. Great entry!

Cool game. Damn those roof spikes.

Notes:

- Funky music.
- I like the screen transitions.
- Kill Charles. Got it.
- Richard is a boss at this mining stuff.
- Richard looks unusually happy about this situation.
- These purple bouncing things are whistling at me.
- I fell for that spike trap so hard.
- Will these pink things murder me too? Time to find out!
- Died! That wasn't health!? Trying again.
- Hm. Next level has the same block, but it actually gave me health instead of murdering me.
- Oh, the whistlers *do* attack you. Must have been that the last time.
- That is an elephant!
- Surprising variety of music.
- Another elephant. These guys are dangerous.
- Game just got very laggy. Seems to slow down whenever I try to move.
- Better now. Blaming Flash and/or system.
- I HAVE SLAIN CHARLES!

- Charming game.

Things I would change:

- Hmmm. Make sure the player dies if he has no hearts left. Health value going negative due to high damage? Guessing so. Seemed like I was invincible when fighting Charles.

BAUGH! I had that bug fixed, then forgot to save.

Whenever I updated just an hour ago the bug was reintroduced with the build. Sorry about that! I'm updating again, thanks for the report, your notes made me happy.

Really liked the graphics style in this game. Reminds me of old BBS door games. DOS ASCII character 01 is my hero!

I really liked it, loved the tune, and the miner looks like a potato

I wish dying didn't start you back at the beginning, i died form the spikes i didn't see and didn't have the motivation to start over. Good game though and it was a lot of fun, the music was absolutely wonderful!

Nice music. I had a hard time clicking on enemies to kill them, but I'm not sure why I should even try because you can just dig around them.

Impressive number of good tunes!

Also quite fun.

A little frustrating to go through the game's menu transitions every time I die (which is often), but otherwise enough content to keep me coming back to see what else I'd discover on the next level.

Awesome game, I love digger and this is better than digger, Great job on making long!

This game was amazing. The music was fantastic, and gameplay was even better. Amazing game.

This was cool, a really good sense of exploration

Lags on level with enemies. But in other game is very fun. And have lovely music!

Very very fun game. There is something in this game that makes it very enjoyable to play. Great work!

Cool idea... Fun but frustrating to start over. Are the diamonds and gold needed for anything or just points w/ no gameplay value?

@Deathray The diamonds and gold are just for score, and are totally optional.

Wow, I totally fell for those spikes.

Elephant + Spikes WHY! :'(

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