SUPER SPACE MINER by Cosine

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made by Cosine for LD23 (COMPO)
SUPER SPACE MINER is a game about MINING in SPACE for MAGIC SPACE MOON ORE. You accomplish this task through the powers of bombs, drills, and some more bombs. Features 15 levels, music, and a story better than Twilight.

Tools used:
GameMaker
SFXR
Sonar 8 Home Studio
Paint.net
Audacity

Ratings

Coolness 30% 897
Overall 3.39 193
Audio 2.58 383
Fun 3.28 177
Graphics 2.95 394
Humor 2.18 453
Innovation 3.53 153
Mood 2.24 695
Theme 3.26 309

Feedback

matthias_zarzecki
23. Apr 2012 路 09:22 UTC
Nice little puzzler, although it's not immediately clear what you're supposed to do.
Pacifist Games
23. Apr 2012 路 20:54 UTC
I like the idea, but you have to trudge through quite a lot of story to get to the actual gameplay... I ended up getting to an unbeatable level. The game told me to use 2 bombs when I was only given one to use.
Dakota
23. Apr 2012 路 20:55 UTC
Nice game. The music didn't play for me but I still listed to it :)
馃帳 Cosine
23. Apr 2012 路 21:42 UTC
@Pacifist Games: Showing the solution doesn't restock your number of tools.
uprightpath
23. Apr 2012 路 22:06 UTC
I had trouble getting the music to work. Otherwise, it was a fairly simple puzzle. Not too difficult and I found it pretty simple to decipher. :D
ben
25. Apr 2012 路 20:19 UTC
Neat game, well executed. Except for the music not working.
Tourgen
27. Apr 2012 路 03:58 UTC
Really a pretty fun game. With just a bit of experimenting I was able to figure out what was going on. You made playing around with it easy too with instant restarts. Nice work.
Oye Beto
27. Apr 2012 路 04:04 UTC
Interesting puzzle mechanic :)
Spiridios
27. Apr 2012 路 04:05 UTC
Fun puzzler. I hit the M key for music and my spotify, which was paused, started playing. Otherwise music didn't work. =p
Endurion
29. Apr 2012 路 08:33 UTC
Neat game, polished presentation and overall nice.

Thanks for adding the solution, the later stages are tough to figure out.
The one where you need to use a deep bomb on the core is nasty though.
Julian Spillane
29. Apr 2012 路 17:54 UTC
Very neat game, with fun puzzles. A great entry!
iximeow
29. Apr 2012 路 18:06 UTC
Interesting once I figured out what each tool did. And that I was seeing the perspective of an asteroid rather than a SPACE MINER.

For that minority (of one, it seems :( ) of us playing games on netbooks or, the game goes outside the screen. (I'm playing at a 1024x600 resolution at the moment)

Also, I don't have a mouse for the time being, so I thank you for having arrows switch between tools. It would have been more comfortable to play if you had the left and right arrow keys move the cone around as well.
chambers
02. May 2012 路 00:20 UTC
Quite addictive! The game is very short, but for a longer game with more puzzles I'd considering including an easy way of understanding how many horizontal tiles the planet has, instead of moving the mouse around, because this number changes depending on the puzzle.

Besides that, very fun puzzle game! Congrats! If you're thinking of making a longer version of it, consider adding new terrain types and other kinds of tools!