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Enjoy this brief (honest, like maybe an hour) and charming and definitely not weird idle/clicker game from Alec Douglas: Little Dig Game posted by cortex (19 comments total)
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Yeeeeesss thank yoou. Dig up the ground! Dig up tombstones and gold! posted by Braeburn at 12:04 PM on May 12 [2 favorites]
I wonder if I could have beaten the serpent with a more aggressive launching of miners from the start of that phase but I am not willing to play through the whole thing again to find out. posted by jacquilynne at 12:45 PM on May 12 [3 favorites]
Yeah, I was a _little_ slow on the serpent because I was keeping to my expected 50% return rate for a while before realizing it was just CLICK IT ALLLLL and hit the shield whenever it came up. posted by Kyol at 1:00 PM on May 12 [2 favorites]
Good news, if you Load Game after the ending it takes you to right before the serpent again. posted by cortex at 2:03 PM on May 12 [3 favorites]
I reloaded and defeated the serpent and I think that's how you get the Bad End. posted by egypturnash at 3:25 PM on May 12 [1 favorite]
Okay, after excavating half the planet I've made exactly 0 currency because when I drop the little miners on the planet they wander straight to any nearest tombstone and excavate that. And they all die after two digs max so anything better than a break-even return rate is impossible.
I'm obviously doing something wrong but fuck knows what. Either game's too opaque or I'm dumber than shit. posted by at by at 4:14 PM on May 12
You know the drill: extract the resources, leave nothing behind
Well, small screen on mobile here and for quite a while I couldn¡¯t see any other than the first column of powerups. Open the lab, follow the arrows and let The Company¡¯s conscience be your guide. posted by klausman at 4:41 PM on May 12
On desktop (firefox), the lab window doesn't scroll or move in any way, limiting the power ups, I think. posted by maxwelton at 4:48 PM on May 12
I'm able to click/grab that panel and drag it with the mouse with my desktop firefox. But I'm also confused and don't know what I'm doing yet.
Fun game though! Love the rhythmic SFX and the graphics etc :) posted by SaltySalticid at 6:08 PM on May 12
> Open the lab, follow the arrows and let The Company¡¯s conscience be your guide.
I was trying to do that but the cheapest powerup costs 5 units and I haven't been able to earn that much. posted by at by at 6:08 PM on May 12
Restart and be patient. Click for one miner, wait for him to expire, click for another one. When you have zero miners then a miner is free, when you have one miner another one is one buck, when you have two the next one is four bucks, and it goes up rapidly. Spamming clicks will rapidly empty your coffers. posted by egypturnash at 6:47 PM on May 12 [1 favorite]
Clicked on the options after finishing the game. Where were the nipples it was supposed to hide? posted by Hactar at 2:43 AM on May 13 [2 favorites]
It blurs the 'p' characters in the word "nipples" - just a low-res joke methinks? posted by SaltySalticid at 6:42 AM on May 13 [3 favorites]
Ok 830 clicks and 53 minutes later i finished: still fun! I got +73 karma and I don't know if that's good. I suspect there are different endings available but frustratingly the interface to mouse around the upgrade tree was really rough on my mouse hand, so I have to put it down for a while. posted by SaltySalticid at 7:13 AM on May 13
+137 karma. I kept my total number of workers fairly low (for the most part, aside from serpent, I didn't add workers once my cost per-worker went above 10 to 13). Took 1 hour 48 minutes but it's also a game you can leave open in a background tab and come back to periodically.
Every time I saw upgrade possibilities, I focused on productivity and worker longevity first, not just going for the cheapest upgrade available.
At serpent level I had the scratch to immediately apply the last two upgrades before click-spamming to kill the beast! posted by caution live frogs at 7:53 AM on May 13
Clicked on the options after finishing the game. Where were the nipples it was supposed to hide?
I think "hide nipples" puts shirts on the shirtless workers.
(Without it checked, some of the workers have a pink middle block; with it checked, none of them do.) posted by We had a deal, Kyle at 8:40 AM on May 13 [3 favorites]
I found the upgrade menu annoying to navigate, but it did get more flavor into the game, so *shrug.*
I did feel a little cheated that choosing to stop isn¡¯t really an option. What if I want to be an obedient drone? posted by GenjiandProust at 10:56 AM on May 13 [1 favorite]
Yeah, if there's a complaint it's that the upgrade menu should pause the game so you can really savor the flavor text in there. Not that you really lose much during normal gameplay, but if you restart the snaaaaaaaaaaaaaake the clock's a tickin' from the word go. posted by Kyol at 12:12 PM on May 13 [2 favorites]
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