Event Links: [ MiniLD 50 | Warmup Weekend | Real World Gatherings | Ludum Deals | Wallpaper ]
Controls:
Arrows Keys - Move/Look
Z - Jump (or double jump)
X - Shoot/Dig
Gamepad also supported!
Are you bad enough to dig to the earth's core and save the president? Watch out for land mines, dinosaurs and more!
Credits:
Art & Code: Peter Angstadt (@petey123567)
Code & Art: Max Kaufmann (@xewlupus)
We're gonna work on it post-competition: http://dighardcrisis.com/
Downloads and Links
Ratings
 | Coolness | 100% |
 | Fun(Jam) | 4.42 |
| #6 | Overall(Jam) | 4.34 |
| #24 | Theme(Jam) | 4.03 |
| #26 | Audio(Jam) | 4.12 |
| #31 | Humor(Jam) | 3.92 |
| #81 | Mood(Jam) | 3.84 |
| #98 | Graphics(Jam) | 4.18 |
| #112 | Innovation(Jam) | 3.64 |
Comments
Full of actions, and I can even play as a girl if I want! Yeah, great stuff!
Cool idea! controls were really wonky! Would love to see this in the future!!!
@Jared (codev here) absolutely. gamepad beats keyboard in this case, hands down.
oh my god this was insanely fun! love it so much! audio, visuals, everything! very polished too! great!
Really good. They only thing I complain is the intro song, so loud.
This is amazing! Fantastic job. Love this game. I died a few times unexpectedly (usually from shooting the lazer down, then having a dinosaur land on my head). Those moments were rare but not much fun. Still my favorite game I've played so far.
You (tried) to play my game, so I played yours, and my god am I glad I did, this is one of the best compo entries I've ever seen! It's so perfect, the graphics are amazing, the sound design is brilliant, and the music is perfect. You deserve the 5/5 ratings.
This is freaking awesome! The most "game-like" of all the games I've played so far! I like how none of the three(?) weapons are "better" than the others. They all have their strengths and weaknesses. At first, the grenade launcher seems awful, but eventually it's clear that it does certain things better than the other weapons. 5/5
I like the music and the style, and blowing up the Evil Earth is lots of fun.
best game i have played so far - in my keepers list. great job
Whooooa! Awesome game! Great style, great juice, great great great! I'm definitely coming back to this one, so many nice touches, even from the get-go with boy/girl selection. COOOL! :D
Dies too easily though. Gotta learn to not just run n gun :P
Amazing! I loved it!
my only complaints were that i couldn't drop weapons, and that ammo from weapons didn't stack if you picked up the same kind of weapon twice, but other than that this game is absolutely awesome!
-Flatgub~
Really fun game. One of the best feelings in the world is jumping and shooting the floor with the laser gun, it's great.
best game. super satisfying mechanics. would have been nice to have more than one hp, but was fine. great job.
Want to make a fun game? Rockets, grenades and explosions should do the trick! Not enough? Ok, how about a badass laser of awesomeness? fuck yeah!
Save the president? Crazy game!
I like this entry which uses a good concept.
Thank you for this project ++
@flatgub (codev here) oh man, stacked ammo is a Certified Great Idea(tm), awesome, thanks!
You got my first, and likely last, 5/5 in all categories. : O
Wow. This is definitely my favorite game I've played so far. I had loads of fun with this one. Nice job :)
Great game! The controls were a bit tough though (aiming on keyboard) and it would be nice if you were able to switch back to the shovel. I died maybe 10-15 times before i could finish the game, most of the times because i ended up in a confined space armed with a bazooka.
Very entertaining! I killed myself so many times though. :( One time I even shot myself right when I landed at the end.
Very good, had a lot of fun with this one! Got me hooked for a while :)
Good job!
Pretty solid, i really enjoyed playing this ! I liked the sounds and the characters and also the fast respawn made it feel just right haha nice job !
Hahaa this was really cool! Reminds a little bit about how I like to make games myself ^^
Lol I LOVE THIS XD Exploding the ground cubes feel so fulfilling XD love the looks of it too
The Only thing you can do better, is to make this a bigger game, more weapons, longer dig time, more enemies.
There's the kaboom!
Ridiculously fun game. Giant laser breaks it to the point of being funny. Neat particle effects, good audio.
Good job!
nice graphics, awesome gameplay, it was super fun! the shoot/jump keys were tricky but other than that, congrats on an awesome eentry
OMG I BEAT THE GAME!
It was short but awesome!
This is my favorite entry so far!
I laughed out loud when I got to the ending and the girl option being a ponytail is hilarious. I am a bad enough dude
Really great that it has gamepad support, I can't play it without though. (try also allowing Y instead of only Z)
This game is really awesome and action packed. But I think you should start with a weapon so that you don't have to smash buttons like crazy to get down to the first weapon.
Awesome game. I really like the weapon that shoots out the giant laser!
Nice done =)
It's infinity but I gave 5 stars overall.
Very impressing =)
Fantastic job!! So much fun!! One of the best entries I've played so far!
One of the best games I've played from the jam! Had a lot of fun and kept playing. Well done.
Super cool, a little tricky on the keyboard though - (z & x). Brilliant still.
Fun game! I love the aesthetic, and the sound effects are very satisfying. One of my favorites, for sure!
Exciting weapons, monsters, and pressure to dig. Tight graphics, controls, and sounds! If you continue to develop this, I felt as if the difficulty was unfairly variable, and for my poor action skills, didn't dig far.
I Win!
uauhauhau Very funny!
Love this game.
Is fun, simple, and have a lot of guns and explosions ^^
Congrat!
Hot Damn!!! Thanks so much for making the most epic game of the jam :)
Love the way the camera is programmed, detail in the animations (like spawn animation), and intense gameplay. Minimalist, clean ui works well.
Even if you play poorly it's still amazing.
Every effect is well designed (like the mines flashing and exploding)
Could use a background for the sky. Graphics are a little flat.
This was incredibly fun but I wish I could have kept digging more even if the ending was awesome.
Super great game! I included it in part 10 of my Ludum Dare compilation video series, if you'd like to check it out :) http://youtu.be/vjBlRj2wHy8
Really nice game, though ultra easy when you get the laser :)
Really great game. I was constantly being surprised at what I could find underground. Really neatly designed game. I can't praise this enough!
This game is amazing! Best one I've played so far. Great use of procedural generation. Wow, just wow!
Yeah - really love this game, one of my favourites could play this all day. Definitely agree with others, gamepad is the only way to control effectively!
I won!
I loved this game. Had to play till the end. Hilarious, controls well, very very fun.
I think i found one bug where I could keep shooting the lava and it could keep blowing up.
That was great! really cool gameplay, weapons, and enemies! great job
Haha! great fast gameplay really nice graphics all around great entry.
Great fun and great humour. Was a little uncertain what the snake things were but WHO CARES! GUN 'EM DOWN! ... sorry, it got me channelling my inner 80s action hero :-D
p.s. Your Steam game http://turtle-sandbox.com/website/index_stage.html looks great fun too!
Cool game! Very polished. Feels pretty intense for a mining game, I think its the music that helps. Love the different weapons. Awesome job.
I hated to much jumping with 'Z', I'm so used to press space or up, hehe. Fun game! Although I didn't understand the change of sex operation after the final boss :-P (I started as a girl)
Love the arcade style; fast-paced, polished, action games are always a delight to play on LD. One of the best LD entries I've played so far.
I managed to beat it on my very first playthrough with laser guns shooting straight downwards; not sure how I managed to do that because I couldn't do it again for another 20 tries.. but I eventually managed to beat it again without the laser guns. I really feel like the core (boss?) should have done something, though. I feel like an epic boss fight was in order, not just one-hit-kill. :(
Either way, very great work.
Is it innovative? Hmm. Does it fit the theme? Well, it's beneath the surface I guess? Does it feel freaking amazing to play and is incredibly fun? HELL YES IT IS!
Seriously, guys, I think that was the most fun I've had this LD with any game so far. It's so juicy, fruits can't compare! Everything works so well and every weapon feels so good to use, especially the laser (WOOOOOOSH) and the grenade launcher (peng peng peng peng peng go back and watch the explosions!). And I love how he enters the scene, like he was beamed there :D
Fantastic job, you guys! (And with only two people on top of it, woah.)
Wow, you can improve this game so much! And it's awesome already!
The game nailed every category. Stay away from the grenade launcher :) Maybe going down should dig by default and the x key just fires. Then I might be ok with grenades.
This is one of the most fun entries I've played yet. Awesome job!
That was a surprising end of the game... Anyway, it's super fun and quite pretty, with some polishing and redoing of the graphics it could be very pretty, with all those particles you have in place. One of the most fun games of this jam overall for me, wish it were longer.
Holy crap, amazing game. Didn't even expect an ending, but I'll take it.
Very nice game! Nothing much to criticize. Must give it another go now ;-)
Radical! The only thing that was kind of rough was that all of the weapons seem to cause you more harm than good. You have to slow down to use them without killing yourself, and you can dig deeper than their blast radius in the same amount of time.
Short, sweet, and bad-ass! Loved the laser gun, and how it was balanced by the fact that you could easily fall to your death after firing it.
This is a great entry and a lot of fun! I feel like the controls are probably better suited to a gamepad: it was just a little clumsy on the keyboard, but with some practice I got a bit better. The grenade launcher kind of slows down the game, so I don't know if that was the best choice of weapon. Still, I'm going to come back to this one because it was a great deal of fun.
Sublime. I only wish it were longer. Vlambeer quality pixel art and feel, with broforce-esque humour and Excellent mechanics. Not much I can say, you heard me gushing over it on one of the rater streams I'm sure!
The cubes in the background were particularly a nice touch.
Excellent feedback on the weapons! Those mines made digging a cautious instead of mindless activity. My one critique would be the abrupt camera transitions when switching directions are a little jarring. Hilarious concept, well done!
@Wertle, the abrupt camera transitions should be much in the web version. It was some weird thing that showed up only on the download versions that we didn't have time to fix before the deadline :(
LOVED it! Love the graphics, music, gameplay, innovation, all of it! Fun!
Great game, love the presentation and the idea. I would have loved to have some mouse control to make aiming a bit easier though. Nice work!
What a nice game ! I played it so much ^^
Well done, everything is cool !
The best freaking game!!! So fucking awesome!!! 5 start for everthing, music, graphs, fun, inovation, mood
Quirky but fun. Good job on a nice solid platformer and the aesthetic to go along with it.
Really great game in all aspects! Great music, progression, variation, balance and ending! Great job! A bit similar style to my own entry in a way :)
Holy. Fuck. Took me a while to play this game, eventhough I've seen it mentioned many times, daaaamn this is good! I yelled out "YEEAH" when the earth blew up! :D
This game really lives up to both parts of its name - there's digging, and it's goddamn hard! AWESOME.
The bizarre humour of this game is a perfect topping to its fast-paced, explosive, everything-dies gameplay.
Also, I find it hard to articulate exactly why, but I found that the inclusion of gender choice at the start of the game to be a very welcome touch. I'm surprised more games don't make inclusions like that.
Man, this is so addictive. I thought the jump key was in a weird spot, but who cares! Awesome job :)
With 48h of more work, this game will be super-awesome.
Lots of thing are good, so I'll point the less good things :
- I get sometimes stucked between 2 blocks (with the standard tool)
- It takes me time to understand the grenade launcher.
- After the laser (awesome), I sometimes fall on a mine :(
- What about adding one hit point or two ?
- I want to play it on my tablet !
Good work!
Well, this was a lot of fun! Its humour, over the top weaponry, and destructible terrain, reminds me of Broforce (which also started life as a Ludum Dare jam entry). Awesome work!
Awesome music! I think mouse and WASD would have worked better for keyboard controls - I couldn't keep up with the constant camera adjustments! Addictive too, if that's a good thing! :)
@Gwinnell Yeah, there's some kinda framerate bug. We've never seen it on the web build, but definitely 100% of the windows build for some people :P
I seldomly give 5 stars, but this game definitely deserved them! Great job guys! Loved the evil face at the end!
This game rocks more than any game has ever rocked before. More than any game has a right to. Hell yes I am a bad enough to dig down deep and save the Prez. You can count on me.
Killer game. Very well done. Super fast gameplay and fast restarts. Failure was fun and painless. Great job. (I'd probably ditch the digging squares/indicator and just dig out squares near the player?)
Great pixel art, energetic music, fun gameplay and well-designed random generated level, this is awesome.
Pretty good game ! Love the music and big funcking lazer ... there is no score ranking or it's me ?
Easily one of the most additive games this Jam. Excellent presentation & audio, fantastic selection of weapons (Even the laser doesn't feel too OP because it usually lands you in a pile of mines/dinosaurs). VICIOUSLY frustrating difficulty though :p But the quick restart time is spot on to get going again. 5/5
@DragonXVI - Thanks man, love Hot Diggity too (everyone should go play eeeet)!
This is insanely fun! It's fast-paced and has a surprising amount of variety in the encounters you have and the abilities you pick up. I thought it was a bit confusing at first, but because restarting is so fast, I was able to pick it up quickly. Looking forward to seeing what comes out of it!
FUN. Solid gameplay, good difficulty, polish + slow time. It *feels* really good.
Oh man this game is stupid fun! Played this more than probably any entry so far (and I've played over 100.) While I never made it very far (~90 meters max) I had a great time. My favorite moment is firing the beam weapon straight down and riding along with it. Awesome work!
Frekin A+ Just loved this one to bits. Through damn grenade launch (>_<)
This is amazing! It was a bit hard, but maybe I was just having too much fun with the grenade launcher!
Wow! Awesome game! The graphics and music are cool. The controls work well. It's also great that you can choose boy or girl to play as.
This game might be the most liked of all LD29. It might not be the most completely innovative, but it's so polished/slick. It does not at all feel like a game made under any sort of time crunch limitations.
This is probably the most fun one I've played this LD! Great work!
Wonderfully done. My only complaint was that I had a lot of deaths that felt unfair, but the short session duration and overall silliness made it hard to feel frustrated.
The game is kinda fun, ironically I liked the shovel the most :D The only problem is my character fell sometimes into a block, so I was able to move through all the block on the map, it kinda helped, but I'd prefer the game to be fair ;)
Woah, crazy. Found myself dying quite a lot, but it's a great idea well implemented.
Holy crap that was awesome. Pretty fast paced and that LASER RIFLE!
This was so amazing haha. Oh it felt so lovely to make that earth explode. A lot of variety, really well done! Graphics were amazing and I am so "digging" it!
I really enjoyed this game. Action pumped music, lots and lots of screen shakes... really fun!
The only minor complaint I have is, that the weapons get picked up automatically. This was a bit frustrating sometimes when I fell into a pit and picked up a rocket launcher accidentally.
I also had a minor technical problem. The web version wouldn't recognize my key presses. I didn't experience this with other unity games so far. But this could also be a problem on my end. The downloadable version (OS/X) worked perfectly.
This is still one of the best entries I have seen so far! Very good work!
Hahaha that was amazing. That laser man. I kept using it, and it kept screwing me over.
This was immense fun, perfectly polished, from the camera movement over the screenshake to the physics.
Lots of fun. Very difficult.
I think sticking to spacebar for jumping might have made it a little easier to pick up. I spent a while trying to get used to Z/X controls.
This was amazingly fun to play, I would love to see this as a full game, maybe with multiple 'quests'. Really great job!
Excellent game. Lots of replayability. Well done graphics and effects. All around a solid entry.
Great job. Can't believe you guys did this in just a few days. Keep up the good work!
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This game is awesome. What's up with the grenade launcher? It's a trap!