Mushroom Miner by Calzone407
Grow mushrooms to escape the log that you are trapped in!
I explain how to move in game, but here are the controls again: Z to pick up and fertalize Arrow Keys to move X to attack Space to jump
| Link | https://calzone407.itch.io/mushroom-miners |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/52/mushroom-miner |
Ratings
| Overall | 711th | 2.957⭐ | 25🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 682th | 2.826⭐ | 25🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 610th | 2.932⭐ | 24🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 541th | 3.478⭐ | 25🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 584th | 3.174⭐ | 25🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 530th | 2.556⭐ | 20🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 686th | 2.929⭐ | 23🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 8🗳️ | 23🗨️ |
But overall i liked this game, it's very cute, and the glow is nice
I didn't fully understand what was the fertilizer, but I figured it out. A sort of in-game interactive tutorial would be nice. All the moles going into one place on the map shouldn't really do that, lol. Of course it's a time thing, you did many things in this entry anyway, so great job! The art is cute too.
Super cute art and nice animations!
Some very basic sound effects would have added a lot, I recommend https://sfxr.me/ for easily creating your own.
In the end it felt like I was supposed to press Z on those 2 tall mushrooms(?) near the entrance and then run to a small mushroom, at which point it turns into a miner, but I couldn't get it to reliably work and so I'm not sure I had the right end of the stick.
I think what would have helped, knowing that adding an interactive tutorial is too hard to do for a jam, would be to throw together an annotated picture with the sprites you've used and what keys I'm meant to press on them. A rough and ready illustration like that would probably only take ten minutes but would really help unsuspecting players. This is something I wish I had thought of doing for my game as well — it's hard to predict what people will have trouble knowing what to do and yet the time to add an interactive tutorial doesn't come when you are busy making the game itself good!
Once I half-figured it out, it was fun. Could have used a few more levels but that may just be the nature of gamejams :D. Thanks for the game!