Space Miners by Shane Gadsby

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made by Shane Gadsby for LD19 (COMPO)

Ratings

Coolness 1% 181
Overall 2.15 204
Audio 1.85 150
Community 1.33 225
Fun 2.08 198
Graphics 2.31 193
Humor 2.17 119
Innovation 2.08 196
Theme 2.54 180

Feedback

randomnine
20. Dec 2010 · 20:49 UTC
Good effort. I like the idea of hunting for asteroids to mine, it fits the theme well.

I got a nasty audio bug several times, where weapon sounds looped continuously until you fired again.
mitch
21. Dec 2010 · 04:55 UTC
It was a good effort.

I also got the sound bug... not sure what's causing it (No source?).
johnfn
21. Dec 2010 · 05:31 UTC
Man... This was a good concept for a game, and it seemed really interesting, but needed some serious playtesting. Your ship is just too slow. It was agonizing to watch the little thing crawl across the sky. I played for 15 minutes to get the upgraded speed, but it was still too slow to really be engaging.
Endurion
22. Dec 2010 · 18:08 UTC
I can't vote since there is a bug: I have a white background and can't basically read any of the text unless it happens to be over a planet.
The ship is awfully slow.
Tom 7
24. Dec 2010 · 06:10 UTC
Hmm, the game doesn't look like the screenshots to me. I have a white background, which makes the game pretty hard to understand -- I couldn't even tell that I had money or that the planets did anything until I happened to put my ship behind their white hover text. I blew up some asteroids and even some planets, but nothing seemed to happen. I thought my ship moved very slowly, actually so slowly that it made me chuckle. :)
Martoon
31. Dec 2010 · 18:21 UTC
Good potential. Fun little explore-and-mine game. Like others, I had the weapon sound looping bug.
eli
01. Jan 2011 · 21:14 UTC
RIP Jonny Miner =(
MrPhil
04. Jan 2011 · 02:27 UTC
I'd had the same problem Endurion describes.
Mirroar
07. Jan 2011 · 23:28 UTC
That sure gave my Spacebar a workout...
Endurion
09. Jan 2011 · 17:00 UTC
It worked on my new PC. A very nice game but the controls are killing most of the fun. For one the space ship starts out ridiculously slow. And having to press SPACE all the time is rather annoying.
A map or radar would be neat, I ventured too far and got out of fuel :(