Escape into the Abyss by Raeino
Six anonymous miners are escaping from a dark force that comes from the sky, mining underground with their picaxe.
With your mouse, select 4 different types of ways to destroy the ground to help miners to go deeper and deeper.
Keep all of them alive as long as possible.
| Link | https://raeino.itch.io/escape-into-the-abyss |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/48/escape-into-the-abyss |
Ratings
| Overall | 905th | 3.521⭐ | 26🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 973th | 3.304⭐ | 25🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 211th | 3.913⭐ | 25🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 98th | 4.304⭐ | 25🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 835th | 3.739⭐ | 25🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 1403th | 1.833⭐ | 20🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 1323th | 3.182⭐ | 24🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 16🗳️ | 16🗨️ |
A little bit more variety would have increased the fun - maybe different ground types?
Other than the balancing stuff other people have already mentioned, I would've allowed shape switching via scroll wheel. I also noticed that the bottom blocks don't get destroyed until they're fully on the screen, which I felt was a bit unintuitive.
Overall, simple but great game, I played it for a while.
the graphics are spot for a gloomy mine.
The sounds were somewhere between soothing and a bit too repetitive. Also getting started was a bit confusing the shaped seemed to be random how well they worked.
All in all decent entry.