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Check out this game created by a team at DigiPen. (https://www.digipen.edu/?id=1170&proj=24629)

It's brilliant. I've been playing it for hours, and i've had more fun with it than i have with any AAA title from the past few years.

Thought i'd share!

It looks like someone mocked up a game in ASCIIPaint or WEPaint and then made an actual game out of it which is just fantastic. Stylistically, this is the type of game that more people should be making.

WOAH! looks amazing. Can't believe I never heard of this before!!
Gonna download tomorrow as I'm on my iPhone right now

Thanks alot for sharing!

Best use of ASCII graphics ever? I think so. :o

I can't play right now (posting this from a phone), but gameplay-wise it looks like Clonk.

Or Motherload.

This game is fucking awesome. The tutorial is done pretty badly though in my opinion, but the game itself is super fun.

(http://i.imgur.com/BsZ3v.png)

I love this game.

So many minerals! :lol:

I have to agree that the tutorial isn't very good. I skipped it because i just wanted to play the game, but later on when i showed the game to my cousin, he had been playing for about 2 minutes when out came "What! Moles explode? *chuckle*". After i quizzed him about how he had possibly reached the moles so quickly he said that it was in the tutorial. I thought it was way more fun finding out for myself.
Also some of the upgrades are described in the tutorial, and i enjoyed discovering those for myself too.

I think the graphics are great too. I even like the fact that there are graphical artifacts, it's so charming.

Mining the moon and the stars in this game is very unsettling. The stars are drawn like a childrens drawing and there's a sickly sweet repetitive jingle playing in the background as you erase the skies and leave nothing but void. I doubt this whole game was meant as a social commentary, but, still, it feels pretty godless

looks beyond nice - gonna have to check it out when I get the chance

So many minerals but I can't figure out how to pick them up! I read the tutorial, too :/

As far as I understood it, you need a complete line of conveyor belts and scoops to move it up to the station, you will also have to turn the direction of the belts occasionally. They only move minerals in the correct direction, it seems.
The game is pretty fun and I agree, the Tutorial was one massive Spoiler. I know everything right from the start, meh. It's still fun.

It's more like a manual than a tutoreal.

For a laugh, upgrade the Dirtzooka a few times on subsequent completions but make sure you have the battery for the consequences.

This game is too addicting.

I agree with the general sentiment here, game's amazing. I skipped the tutorial but still figured out everything just fine on my own.

Completed the game, it's very fun. And yeah, the tutorial is unnecessary.

(http://i.imgur.com/EIAlX.png)

trying out some new mining styles on my second playthrough :wizard:

lol wat

I bet it took an hour to transport that candy land.

The one thing I wish this game had was random terrain. After two playthroughs it's pretty much over. Still, it's pretty fucking awesome as is.

This is basically "Strip Mining: The Game", but I love it nonetheless.

After I beat it a couple times I started trying some fancy shit. I made Metroid-looking buildings out of platforms and the tractor beam things, and also made THIS:

(http://i.imgur.com/Z1phh.png)

The thing below my character is a little thing I tried to make, basically the minerals flicker and bounce around and it looks really great. Not sure what to call it. If you want to try making it you have to first have all full columns of the tractor beam and platforms, shoot some minerals up in there and they'll start bouncing around at the top, get rid of the third or fourth row, rinse and repeat. Makes an excellent cosmetic upgrade to your rig.

Unfortunately this was lost forever when I accidentally entered the exit door. :-X Maybe I'll make a bigger one.

I have a feeling that somebody is gonna make a calculator in this games...or a PC.

Man looks like I need to dive back into my 2 play-through save and mess around.

Okay guys, I somehow got a simple sprite-viewer coded for the .sprite and .layer files this game uses. Not sure where I'm going with it though... Could write a sprite editor and a layer editor probably... Or a procedural generator for layers...

(Yes I have to mod everything)

I had fun with this but then I lost two hours to a crash. Nope, uninstalled.

How do I use the vacuum teleporter?

Press V to switch to Vacuum and X to switch back.
If you're near the Vacuum Teleporter when pressing X, everything you collected spews out of it.

This game looks really tempting, but the last thing I need is another game to distract me.

Spelunky does that just fine.

Dig-N-Rig was my idea fuckers

Yeah, that was my first thought too.   Didn't stop me from playing it for two hours straight though.

Anyone else have problems with loading a game and upgrades no longer being applied?

Any game I save after buying the "water+lava resist" upgrade seems to discard the upgrade after I reload.  I can't buy it again though.

Anyone know if the developer is continuing work on it?  I know it was for DigiPen so I assumed it was finished.

How does the Vac Pak work?

Place it over a conveyor belt, suck up minerals with your vacuum, when you eject them they'll come out of the vac pak if you're in range (you can tell by his blinking antenna) instead of your vacuum.