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Fame and fortune are said to await the driller that reaches a 1000m into the earth. A few obstacles are on the way though, such as hard rocks, TNT caches, and underground drill-missile systems. But what is a drilling life without a little challenge?
Post your run times in the comments. Bonus if you make it without taking damage.
Controls explain themselves. Arrow keys to steer or speed up.
OS/X version is UNTESTED. Please let me know if it's working.
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Ratings
| #43 | Theme | 4.00 |
| #54 | Fun | 3.86 |
| #124 | Overall | 3.75 |
| #246 | Graphics | 3.69 |
| #431 | Mood | 3.13 |
| #472 | Audio | 2.89 |
| #626 | Innovation | 2.96 |
| #714 | Humor | 2.22 |
| #1547 | Coolness | 45% |
Comments
Really fun to play! Loved the missiles just coming out of nowhere. Beat it in 141 seconds.
Bloody missiles! I keep dying at around 800 meters! If I wasn't rushing to get to 1k I could probably actually finish it :P Very good gameplay!
I hate controls little bit :D Can you add something like swap controls? I really need Key left = right and Key right = left :D
I reach the 1000m in 143.4 sec (dunno if it's a good score).
I've got the same idea at the begining but I change some things (but it still a cool idea). It's great to see my first idea implemented. Good job.
Wish there were different neemies, or something more likely to be underground (dinosaur bones, oil/gaz layer and such!), but a very solid entry.
Well done!
Plays nice and smooth on osx for me, would love a swap left/right keys option as well , the default mapping fights against my intuition.
Would be cool to have a version of this game with a longer vertical playfield (an aspect ratio similar to vertically scrolling arcade shooters) so you could plan out your drilling path just alittle more.
addictive, I can't seem to get past 900ish meters without getting destroyed
Got down on my first try! Pretty good in my opinion, if not a little too spammy with the obstacles, but its still pretty good for an endless "driller" with random obstacles. :)
This was really fun and the graphics and sound all fit together very nicely. The difficulty was maybe a little too easy as it took only 4-5 tries to beat. If you made an infinite version as an app, I would definitely get it.
I think it's too much CPU/RAM for this game
Anyway, great idea, I loved it, reached 1000m :)
116.4 seconds with 3 units of life left. Took me almost 10 tries though. I also would've loved inversed controls, and maybe some kind of a short turbo-boost that automatically recharges over time? Would'v ehelped with those missiles. The gameplay was nice and juicy and the difficulty of the randomly generated map felt really good.
Anssi@MooseflyGames
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Works swimmingly on OS X. 751m was as far as I've made it thus far.