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You play as a shapeshifting cave trying to defend itself from little greedy miners that want nothing but to get their hands on your crystal.
They are small, they are fast and they are clever. They will avoid your defenses and raid your resources, while doing a very annoying little dance. For how long can you survive this madness?
Use the arrow keys to change the cave's shape and activate traps.
Game made with the LibGDX framework (Java).
--- Credits ---
Game created by Rafa Skoberg - @rafaskoberg
Music created by Stephen D. Gibson - @R9cast
--- Updates ---
April 19th, 2016:
- Fixed some performance issues.
- Added a button to disable shaders, making the game run faster on old computers.
- Fixed a bug preventing the game window to be resized.
Downloads and Links
Ratings
 | Coolness | 83% |
| #27 | Audio(Jam) | 4.16 |
| #27 | Overall(Jam) | 4.13 |
| #33 | Graphics(Jam) | 4.51 |
| #46 | Mood(Jam) | 4.07 |
| #47 | Fun(Jam) | 3.96 |
| #90 | Innovation(Jam) | 3.81 |
| #93 | Humor(Jam) | 3.63 |
| #199 | Theme(Jam) | 3.78 |
Comments
Can't get off it. Playing nearly 30 minutes now. I can't win, but I want to. I will.
Well done game. No horrible glitches. Nice music and good, albeit simple, graphics. Lots of fun.
Overall a really solid game. I can't get enough of watching these fools die!
Really fun. I especially liked that it kept my score, makes me want to beat it.
I really like the visual style. I became Ceratopsian, Sauropod and Mircosaur. I don't understand how to become a Pterosaur.
Ceratopsian killed Tyrannosaur. I didn't understand whether I took part in it and what to do next.
Fun :) Reminds me a little of adam atomic's temple defense game from a while ago, with more animation and fewer traps! Was fun while it lasted. Graphics and audio were pretty great.
That was...SO MUCH FUN!!! Thank you so much, I had a blast with this.
Looks great, sounds great, fun gameplay, neat application of theme. Quite funny, as well!
Super cool! I found it a bit laggy, but otherwise very good experience.
Really cool game. :) One of the few I've been compelled to play a few times for fun rather than just for rating. Really good job!
The graphics really played into the mood and theme of the game, the angry little pikmin pivot guys made the game. Is it really possible to play beyond a couple minutes?? Very hard, very cool.
time: 3:12 kills: 808
Easily one of the most polished games in the jam; the audio is great and everything looks beautiful! Miner's deaths have never been more satisfying...
Integrating the cooldown indicators into the UI was a great touch; I'd love to see you turn this into something bugger post-jam!
Thanks for the feedback guys! I had a LOT of fun developing Greedy Miners and I'm really glad you guys are having a good time playing it! =D
IS GRAPHICS EVERYTHING?! think about it....?
IS GRAPHICS EVERYTHING?! think about it....?
IS GRAPHICS EVERYTHING?! think about it....?
Great polish to this one. The delay in some of the keys taking effect was a bit frustrating at first, but once I got the hang of that, I found it brought some more depth to the gameplay.
Super neat! Really polished and it just plays and feels so good. Only real criticism is button mashing seems to be the optimal strategy (I made it 2 minutes w/ 350 dead miners just bashing all the arrows at once).
I really love the little grunts and squeaks the miners make!
Reminds of of Lemmings, if the lemmings were all jerks I wanted to kill. Nice art and sound and mood.
It did get a bit repetitive, though; basically whack a mole that eventually becomes impossible to keep up with. I would have liked to see miners who had varying AI or more things to hit them with, etc.
Thanks guys! About button mashing, it's true to a point. Since the timings are all fixed, getting the right interval between traps is the key. Some random variation to the enemy flow would fix this problem.
After receiving so much positive feedback I'm believe it's a good idea to keep working on this game in the future, introducing different levels, different traps and especially different miners.
My goal was to provide a couple of minutes of fun to the players, and I hope I achieved that. Thanks for playing everyone! =)
Quite solid game mate! Loved the idea behind it and it was realy well done!
cool game, interesting use of the theme too. The graphics are amazing!
Hi, nice game ! We're realizing a video with several games of the Ludum Dare #35.
Can you add your game on indiexpo.net ? (it's free)
So we can include also your game in the video ;)
p.s. write #LDJAM in the game's description
Reminded me of Limbo, which was especially amazing, as I enjoyed that game, so the art here was particularly good. Music and sound effects really matched with the graphics as well and were very enjoyable, and while I would've liked more types of miners or more strategy in which traps I activated, the gameplay was still quite fun. Overall a fantastic entry!
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Really nice game, nice use of the theme. And really original! :)