Miners4k

I think if you were to increase the window width at least 100 more pixels then it would be a lot more fun to play, and easier to accomplish the levels, as they are pretty darn hard :slight_smile:

you have to be kidding!!!

Killing your miners is the best bit!!! =D

Not sure if u guy already know this, but found this strat pretty effective for climbing up-hill

http://myjavaserver.com/~coredumped/tunnel/miners.png

Great game! very addictive

New version up with fixed timing. It should run at the same speed on all computers now.

I had to speed up the splat animation (removing some frames) and tweak the level variables a bit, but itā€™s down to exactly 4096 bytes again.

Unless there are more major bugs, Iā€™ll consider this entry done and move on to my next one. =)

excellent job markus. this game is tons of fun and very popular. not only is it the most downloaded 4K 2006 game thus far, its also the 3rd most downloaded on my site ever. this means that two of Markusā€™ games are in the top 3 downloads of Java Unlimited! (Dungeon4K, 4K-tris, Miners4K). If that doesnā€™t spell game quality, I dont know what does :stuck_out_tongue:

Sweet! :smiley:

One more version, a bit tweaked. 4093 bytes.

Oh, and source code!

Thanks for releasing the code! Nice job on the comments, they make it ALMOST understandableā€¦

;D

Found quite a few bugsā€¦

If you are collecting gold to fast, some of your miners will get stuck between the wall and the rising gold pyramidā€¦

I found a critical bug where the gold deposits donā€™t disapearā€¦ so I can collect 2000 gold in a matter of seconds. Instead of making the gold deposits disapearā€¦ it just makes dotted vertical lines in random placesā€¦

I decided to suicide my minersā€¦ and I ended up with -1080 minersā€¦ notice the negativeā€¦ after all my miners were dead the round didnā€™t endā€¦ probably because of the - miners.

Iā€™ll look into it

Gold isnā€™t removed from the ground anymore. IIRC it was collected in the first level(s) but after that the gold-deposits yielded infinite resources.

Update: well, it depends on the level, sometimes it works, sometimes it doesnā€™tā€¦ seems to be random.
Update 2: seems to depend on the angle: they donā€™t take gold (but carry it away) if the gold is below them

http://www.songprojector.com/temp/miners.png

http://www.songprojector.com/temp/miners2.png

Fixed? Maybe?

Miners will slowly drift upwards if they get stuck in gold now.

Oh the pain of bug fixing 4k codeā€¦

;D

I hope you have a back up of an early version of the game, just in caseā€¦

Unfortunately, I donā€™t, heh

But it seems to mostly work now, except for no digging gold under row 1024