its not a bad game but i feel like if i dont do everything just right ill be stuck forever. which i have done once or twice and i couldnt figure out how to get out.
Reviews for "Glean"
okaybmd responds:
Well, you have to THINK before you drill down. Try and make your path more like stairs, and not straight down. If you're really stuck, you can always go to another planet (but lose all items that you have drilled and not dropped at the ship).
Alright.
Motherload was terrible in my opinion. There's a lot of mining flash games around and Motherload wasn't the first or last. Inspired alot of concept but it was garbage on execution. That concept lead to later mining games.
Megaminer was fun but duller than Minecraft. Which is saying something.
Utopian Mining was MegaMiner with a bigger emphasis on story. Too short.
In a nutshell Glean is what Motherload should have been. A combination of Motherload and MegaMiner. None of the problems, excellent graphics and sound.
I like it overall, but a few things I didn't like.
- The overheating system. That's just me, there's nothing wrong with it.
- The GUI, it's a tad bit confusing. I would have expected the red bar that drains to be the fuel bar, not the health bar. Other than that, it's sharp and clear.
-Like Motherload, digging yourself into a hole is a possibility. Unlike Motherload, that possibility is very low.
All and all fun. Excellent work.
This should be turned into a mobile game for droid.
I don't understand why some people are complaining. I admit that at times it can get a bit repetitive. And traveling up to the surface gets annoying until you can more easily afford the teleport pads. But all in all I thoroughly enjoyed this game. Here's my suggestion to the author:
Put a story in place. A progressive plot I think would uplift this a lot. Also, perhaps you intended it this way, but the first time I played it took some time before I knew about combining materials to create larger materials. It also took some time for me to realize those same larger materials were deeper in the planet.
All in all, great game. Keep it up!
love the game, but only a 3.5 because it's easy to die at first, and every single item you've collected just vanishes... thanks... i worked hard for that crap. which is another downside, it takes forever to collect items and easy to lose them all...