Great idea, good execution, but just too damn slow
It's a good idea! It's just too slow. The miner moves too slow for the game to be any fun. Yes, if he just flew across the screen, the game wouldn't take but ten minutes, but it still feels frustrating having to move him so slowly across already mined areas. Mining things other than just good stuff is an excellent idea and adds a bit of uncertainty to the gameplay.
cured my insomnia
That will get you a 5. Nighty night.
good idea, needs work...possible follow up?
i think that i possibly blew up the blue rare gem with the dynamite and no choice but to restart the game. makes the game to slow and long when u constantly have to redo it all!! i think with a couple more tweaks and some more varieing upgrades this could be a good one
Incomplete
It's a nice way to pass time, but that's it right now. A little finger math will tell you that it's more efficient to just to buy health back at the first town every time instead of buying potions or buying health in other towns. If there were travel costs, that would be different, but you skipped out on that.
The money trap is horrible, especially since the NPCs advise to waste money upgrading the house. If there were a condition that kept track of the available mine spaces left, you could have had an ending. Without it, most players just sat there with nothing to do, so it feels like an incomplete game. Or, you could have made the mines grow back slowly. We could restart and do it the correct way, but it feels like such a waste of time, especially since walking and mining are so slow.
Eh. I've played worse.
Gotta walk over the spot for the hidden gem. Don't rely on dynamite so much.
I played it, beat it. It was ok.