DRILL MASTERS
Drill Masters is a dropping puzzle game about mining in an dangerous alien planet to buy your ticket back home. Build your combo before and earthquake screw you over, reach the target score before the time expires!
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Awesome game! Crazy difficult starting out though, the time limit makes it pretty damn stressful. Personally I'd consider introducing a "number of blocks" mode or increasing the time limit to start with, then ramping back up in a hard mode, to give new players time to chew on the controls and strategies in relative peace
Hey, thanks for trying! Yeah, it is difficult, I've got you. I've been working on this alone for some time now and the difficulty ended up being balanced for me. On a future version I'll balance the first levels to have no time, only a target score. Then I'll introduce more challenges later. Maybe I'll work with just the target score, earthquake timers and intensity, leaving that time limit out. You're giving me many ideas!
Happy to help, it's off to such a great start. I'm sure it'd already kill in the masochist's dark souls' demograhpic. I'm starting to figure out linking and designing combos, and I'm verrry proud that I got to 300 meters, it was tough
Another feedback: Getting bumped back to zero after descending feels bad to me, especially when I had a monster combo in the prev level, I think you should have score carry over when you beat a level, or change the score requirement to "cumulative score" so you're rewarded for landing a massive combo.
Followed and looking forward to more updates :)
Hahaha, I'm part of that masochist dark souls demographic =). But that's not exactly my aim here. I want the game to be challenging but satisfying. I'm happy to hear that you stayed playing and got to 300m. Thanks, that means a lot to me. It's my first game, so every progress counts a lot.
You're not getting bumped to zero. There is a cumulative total that will count towards the end, which is part of the greater goal that will be set through many matches. There are still many loose pieces on the overall design of the game. It is like you've just said, but each level has it's own score requirements. Through many matches, the player will need to use their earned credits to make repairs and survive, while at the same time being cautious about spending credits, since the end goal is to buy a very expensive ticket back home.
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Thank you so much for you feedback, it means a lot to me!