"It's time to get out."

In the beginning I died to skeletons a few times and restarted each time, I would have liked to win without dying but the first time a bomb exploded at my face I actually clicked on Revive and eventually clicked on Revive thrice during this last, successful run because the game is so big. That would be my only minor grip, the level could have been smaller. The difficulty is overall well balanced I think, you'll find enough heart, the enemies are just enough of a threat and it's perfectly fine that bombs kill you in one hit, but I could not see myself restarting when dying anymore when I realised how big the dungeon was while reviving feels a bit unsatisfying.

They're a lot of things to like in the game. Any game with interactive environments is laudable, and breaking walls is a specially satisfying kind of interaction. The game controls pretty well, movement feels good and the mining gameplay is pretty cool as you get to free plenty of enemies and are looking for actual goals. It's just easy enough not to get hit by a skeleton that you get hit once in a while, the bomb gameplay is fun and the bomb enemy particularly cool, bomb enemies killing the other enemies is fun and I really like the chain reactions, sometimes I wished the radius of explosion was one tile bigger so there are more chances of chain reactions. With plenty of enemies you always feel like something's happening, the dungeon never really feels empty. The ending sequence concludes the game well enough.

This is a pretty cool and original entry, thanks for sharing.

Well this was really neat, I don't think I've ever seen a dungeon crawler where almost all the walls are destructable!

The mining felt good, movement was nice and quick, I loved the various items and powerups especially the speed boost. Also I liked how the material on the blocks looked when cracking.

The AI voicework was nice, as were all the sound effects and music.

I liked the little details like the mushrooms and roots spread around occasionally. And as someone else who also plugged their other games in their entry this year, I love the posters in the bedroom! And I also liked the credits, I don't know why exactly but it gives a nice feeling of closure when they exist in a jam game.

The only major issue I ran into is that navigation felt very confusing. Like aside from running into the obsidian blocks or the hallway to the bedroom or statue room there were no clear landmarks. Well, I guess there was actually the the four pillars around each piece but those are pretty far into the blocks. I just resorted to clear cutting as much as I could.

Beyond that, I would've liked if the skeleton enemies lost their collision immediately after dying like the bombs. Because often I would be mining a line with the speed boost and I'd instantly kill the skeleton, but then there'd be 2 seconds or so where I watch its slow death animation and can't move forward.

I also thought the hammer animation and hit feedback when attacking enemies wasn't great. But I also don't think that was the focus of this game, and I'm not one to really judge in that regard lol.

Overall, I enjoyed it, good work!

I had about the same experience as everyone else. 
The game feel of the hammer and smashing the rocks is very well done and satisfying.

But yeah, trouble navigating the big environment, even after looking up the RUG solution.
I'm also not sure if one of the shards bugged out, cuz I picked up two but only one was highlighted,

And I didn't find there was much need for planting bombs as they were too slow to be effective.  Main strategy was to lure an enemy and kill it before it finished it's walk cycle.  Or rush past before they had a chance to strike.

Playthrough: Dungeon of Dreams Pt1 by wolfheat

Just played this and I enjoyed it! It's a bit tight and hard to navigate even with the map to be honest, the different wall textures/colors don't help all that much in orienteering until you're a ways into the game and know to recognize them.

I was glad for the no progress loss on death, as enemies are very punishing. The game essentially expects you to wait for them to walk near you so you can spam attack, otherwise if you walk to them they attack way too fast for you to win. Which either option is a bit of a pace-breaker.

Controls feel nice and tight, though I've had a few deaths due to QE being turn, a remap between AD and QE would have been welcome. But I admit that's more of a me issue.

I don't think the speed upgrade really helps much considering the mining speed is already quite fast, but it is funny to just instantly eat away at a wall so this isn't a complaint, just an observation.

That all out of the way, this was competently made! A worthy entry into the jam, you should feel proud :)

Bomberman meets Minecraft is very cool concept. I echo what the other players have commented that it just needs a little more to help it along and add some variety.

The destruction is excellent, and creates a great foundation for developing this further. Some additional block varieties / biomes would be great. I would love a little more varied lighting too, I think it would really bring the space to life. 

I enjoyed having to think about approaching the combat to not get blown up or trapped, and some telegraphing to the skeletons will help make it a bit more snappy.

Thank you.

I like the terrain destruction idea for the game, the bomb enemies and having bombs as an alt fire was fun to interact with! For what was in the game at this stage, having no directions made it tedious to reach the objective stones, but a minimap would have been overkill. Having landmarks would have made it nicer to explore. I found it easier to know where I was after finding the long tunnels I had left behind. I didn't feel like I could follow the story at all, but the gameplay concept is solid!

The game was unfortunately too unstable on my machine to finish, but what I could play seemed pretty good. The destructible-environment-based exploration was pretty fun, and the enemies worked well within that premise. The graphics were also pretty decent.

Video of my partial playthrough here:

This game was solid! I enjoyed being able to rampage my way through walls and enemies. I wish the RUG had been more obvious. I feel I would have preferred a minimap / an item I could look at in the dungeon (maybe that would be too easy)?

My only real critique of this game is that it is a little too long for the content that was there. Perhaps having each quadrant have a theme / different enemies would have kept it interesting. By the time I figured out what I was supposed to do, it felt like a chore rather than a joy to repeat it 2 more times.

If you’d like to watch my full play through, you can find it here: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2110888610?t=01h12m25s

"Watch out!"

This game is very goofy in a good way! I really liked the destructible envoriment and voice acting (even though it was AI, it was spot on and funny). 

I completed this game and my only con is that it was very unclear where i supposed to go. Good for me that  i guessed right about stones placement.

Also you can pick up stones, but you can't do anything with them, i guess it just not finished mechanic.

Overall it was fun just lurking and destroy everything,

I like the bomberman/minecraft style gameplay meshed into dungeon crawler mechanics. It's great that you try something out of the usual formula. It feels very good to break the walls with a sledgehammer :)  Beginning sequence and voice acting is very cool. Enemies look cute. I didn't find combat very intuitive but it's fine nevertheless. 

What didn't  work for me in the game is that the dungeon is too big and there's no information or hint on where to go. When i don't know where to go next  i feel like i'm running in circles and it tires me up quickly.

With all criticisms and nitpickings aside i think basisc gameplay works well it just need some more stuff to make it more enjoyable which is tough to do in 9 days. 

This felt like playing dungeon crawler Bomberman (in a good way). Safe to say, I liked the game's mechanic, although combat with skellies was a bit iffy. But it became easier once I got a few health upgrades. Good graphics for the type of game it wants to be, the bombs and digging were very satisfying.

But I, like others, could not find any of the crystals needed. I checked the map in the bedroom and I swear I dug in the right direction and blew up/mined half that quadrant but couldn't find anything. I eventually called it quits, but I really had fun for a while there with the digging and chaining bombs and using bomb mobs to clear walls.

The presentation from the start is really well done here. Lovely menus and interactions with them. The font choice is nice too. The graphics were very self-consistent in-game with the skeletons, bombs and scenery blocks. Animations on the Skeletons were nice. 

The visual and audio feedback on actions like breaking the walls and setting off bombs was excellent, and very satisfying. The gameplay and strategy of when and where to place the bombs was engaging and made it fun to play.

The feedback on combat wasn't there the same way. It wasn't clear when we'd hit something or when they'd hit us. The health bar was very granular with just a number of hearts/lives and each hit removed one. This made the combat overly simplistic and not as satisfying.

We destroyed a lot of blocks and picked up a lot of elements but didn't see an inventory, other than the collected pieces at the top. Was there a reason we were collecting sand/etc.? We didn't really know what we were doing until we found one of the keystones and it took us a long time to find the first one so we weren't sure we actually playing the game properly for a long time.

Nice touch with the Zooperdans and Dungeon Crawler posters in the first room! The voiceovers seemed to work quite well too and is unusual for a jam entry in our experience. These rounded out the game experience for us. Well done on an excellent entry!

Loved the movedment and the destructable envoirment! But  I really couldn't find the key stones, I spent quite a bit of time bombing all over the place but I don't know I just found one :')

Controls feel great. I love that you can dig through almost anything. Combat feels fine. The models are a bit crude but they work. I love that you have voice acting for running commentary. Nice work.

The map really seems a bit large, but then again it needs to be a bit on the larger size to support the digging. And what a nice idea that is. Have we ever had an entry before, where you could change the level so much? The voice overs are a nice touch and makes the character feel much cooler :)
Nice and smooth and I really liked the graphic. Thumbs up!

I liked the game. It got a bit too much running around trying digging everywhere. Since the back walls had some maze like properties, at first I dug a lap around the outer perimeter trying to find a way out that way. Then when I was more or less done with that quest I found the statue and the real quest.

I think for me it was a little too much digging around to find the things. One way could have been to make the game smaller, another might have been to give the player some indication of how far away they are from the closest stone/crystal thing and keeping the level. Or giving direction. The crystals could be humming. The hammer might have some indicator on it. Or it could be a UI feature.

It was very satisfying when I managed to chain several bombers in a row.

I’m also very happy that death was not the end of things.

It would hav been very nice if I could have trashed the initial room too btw.

The starting room was really cool and opening up into a cave with monsters was unexpected in a good way. I thought at first the digging was a little repetitive, and it was, but once I started chaining bombs together to kill other bomb enemies, the explosions got pretty chaotic and fun. It took a while to find all the gems, I think the dungeon could have benefited by being smaller.

Played for around 30 min, and it would clearly take me longer than 50 to finish the task of finding 4 items or something(I only found one). The combat is not hard if you get used to it, just dont get hit(the skeleton guys hit very fast, so stay away). Bombs are op and clearly should be nerfed, I mean there is no reason to not just spam bombs everywhere, I think they should destroy loot at least partially or something to balance them.

After 30 min it got too repetitive for my tastes so I didnt finish it, but still 4/5