oroBOREos by Whirlwind
Bore into the depths to strike gold! Avoid hitting too many rocks (or your own tail) on your way to riches.
Controls:
Turn: Left/Right Arrow Keys
Speed up/Slow down (requires Speed Control upgrade): Up/Down Arrow Keys
Buy things in the shop: Mouse
Return to the surface safely to keep all of your gold! Running out of fuel, crashing into too many rocks, or hitting your tail or the map walls will destroy you and cause you to lose a large portion of the gold you've collected.
Known Issues: Hitting the Escape Key breaks the game.
| Link | https://github.com/tredden/Drillsnake |
| Link | https://tredden.itch.io/oroboreos |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/57/oroboreos |
Ratings
| Overall | 403th | 3.605⭐ | 21🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 317th | 3.553⭐ | 21🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 422th | 3.263⭐ | 21🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 200th | 4.053⭐ | 21🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 645th | 3.184⭐ | 21🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 393th | 2.917⭐ | 20🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 689th | 3.132⭐ | 21🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 14🗳️ | 7🗨️ |
Sad I couldn't experience the game ='(
The game needs some polish, but it works well as it is. Well done!
Tried in MS Edge as well to see if it was Chrome and same issue, so not just Chrome
I got the bug with the blue background too on my Windows machine, but luckily it worked on my Mac.
I see you opted out of audio so I assume it's not your own music but it fits well. Has slight Dune vibes which fits the digging wormy thing.
Neat combo of recognisable mechanics.
The graphics are really nice and polished. The generated stuff looks great and it's satisfying to pick up gold and get the little dusty particles.
Fun to get upgrades. Since I already knew about the speed control from reading the page before playing I felt I had to at least keep playing until I got that one but I was some 40 minutes in by then probably so I didn't play much more after that, had to move on :') But I certainly could've! Quite addicting.
Steering felt pretty good, then with some speed upgrades it got perilous, and then the speed control finally made things really nice.
Really, really nice work!