The game is well designed and all, maybe a little more indications for the collectables of when they would break would help + the enemy is to fast in my opinion. Keep up the great work!
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Deep Space Miner's itch.io pageResults
| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Graphics/Animation | #85 | 3.657 | 3.657 |
| Theme/Limitation | #91 | 3.686 | 3.686 |
| Technical Implementation | #126 | 3.286 | 3.286 |
| Overall | #184 | 3.040 | 3.040 |
| Fun/Design | #193 | 3.114 | 3.114 |
| Music/Sound | #376 | 1.457 | 1.457 |
Ranked from 35 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
How does your game utilize the limitation and theme?
The game revolves around you going through the portal to go to outerspace. Exploring in the infinite map wil lead you to ores and enemies, but no matter how far you go, you'll still have to go back to the portal again. Once you're there, you can go to the two shops and upgrade various things, and then the cycle repeats with you going back to the portal. The collectables are the ores, upgrades, and money that you get.
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Comments
The graphics and pixel art are superb! Well done. The control of the ship was a little hard though. I feel that the deceleration could have been less (asteroids style) and definately a more powerful weapon from the start. Manouvering the space ship in space was also quite challenging. The concept was good though and with a few tweaks you've got really cool little game!
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Collect or Dievery nice concept, sadly i am not good at this style, but if you add some improvement will be great.
voted, please check out our game <3
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Proto Go! 8it GJI love the concept of this game! Reminds me a lot of a game that I played for like 300 hours called Vostok Inc. Upgrading you ship and attacking bad guys is a great and satisfying game loop.
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Off-Brand HeroThank you for the feedback! I just realized that I accidentally change the gold ore to the default rock ore texture o - o. Thank you for the tons of feedback through the video, we'll definitely make sure to fix those issues (ESPECIALLY the enemy ai, which seems to be massacring literally every player)! I'll also have to check out Vostok Inc. , that seems like a game that would really be up my alley. All in all, thank you for the feedback!
Very nice artwork for this game. I liked the idea for the game, but personally I felt it was a little bit too difficult when it came to fighting enemies. Otherwise, good job on this!
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PolyhedronsReally cool game! The art is nice, although the background objects are maybe too bright to my taste, I sometimes lost focus on my ship haha. I think you should later add some sound effects to make it even more pleasing. The enemies are a bit too difficult, when I thought I lost one and was too far from him, I started mining and he rushed at me and killed me haha. Maybe make the enemies return to their initial location or remove them when the player is at a certain distance?
Good job!
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Alchemist BlastI really liked the art style, wish you could get someone for audio, it would make the game more exciting with some sound effects! With a bit of polishing this would be a very good game ^^ And I really liked the limitation of not being able to go backwards and get some distance to shoot, it gives the game character.
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Lost N' FoundThis game was very visually pleasing! Not sure if it was just me, but I couldn't get audio to play. The A.I. definitely has a great advantage over you, but I had no problem running away and moving to the next rock to blast. Got a few upgrades and called it a day. I think a good way to improve is to make the upgrades almost immediately accessible and then ramp up the price from there. It was very hard to progress at the start and was a little draining. I think some tweaking after the jam and this could be a very fun game! Good submission!
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Hardcore FrogkourThe game was pretty hard, but the looks and the polish were nice.
If you were to add sound then I’d highly suggest it, it will help put an impact on the gameplay experience.
But overall, this game has an interesting and fun concept!
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The Other WorldThis is a great idea of the game and a perfect fit with the theme. Really enjoyed the gameplay. Maybe make the menu more clear and make it a tad bit easier (especially killing enemies) but overall I think it's very well done!
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A Cave TaleGood Game, I love the art of the shop keeper, and the controls although I would like more sliding from the player ship were in space after all. The combat fun is sometimes frustrating as not being able to move backwards in anyway makes dodging bullets frustrating. I would make the player frictionless as it makes for more fun movement and combat. Also think about droping the price of healing or droping the buy healing thing at all, their was moments where I needed money to heal but needed health to get money. Other then that the game is a delight and a great prototype.
Awesome game! I love the art and how tight the controls felt. The little trail on the ship was very appealing also. I think when you collide with an enemy ship some screen shake would help make it feel like it had more weight, or possibly have it bounce the two ships apart from each other just a little. When you have the time to put in sound it will help a lot too. This is really impressive for one week of work!!! If you plan to keep developing this game I can't wait to see what it becomes : )!
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Bach In TimeSolid game with great art especially the shopkeeper, good work. The game felt very nice and the upgrade system kept it engaging. I do have to say it sometimes took a very long time to find rocks and after dying you could only take a hit or two which made it hard to mine sometimes with 3 enemies charging you. Apart from that this was a great experience and I would really want to see what you could do with it. Good luck jamming!
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Two FormsThe art for it is fantastic, especially the merchant and the galaxy designs. As for some feed back, the camera feels a bit too zoomed so it made it a bit hard to react and shoot back in time, especially when you can't fly backwards (which I think it is a good thing). Otherwise, good job!
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Loot Retrieval SquadWhat a really great game! I have a few suggestion though. Since the ores appear randomly it feels like my progress depends on whether or not it wants to spawn an ore. Also sometimes there was a weird glitch where I couldn't turn left when moving forward. The particle effects that you added also brought a lot of life to the game.
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The Hungry BirdiesJust simply an awesome game! This deserves way more ratings. The UI is so detailed, the game itself is an awesome idea.
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ApplepickerThe art in this game is absolutely phenomenal! I can't stress how much I loved it. Unfortunately, with the gameplay it was fun for a bit but eventually without an end goal the gameplay got really repetitive. I would love to see this fleshed out with some kind of story or end game!
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Crypt of GreedThanks! I'm glad you loved our art! For the gameplay, since we weren't able to use the first two days due to some other responsibilities, we weren't able to implement the story. We were definitely planning to, and if we ever get the chance to revisit this game, we'll absolutely make sure to put it in!
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