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[Rhodan]

Dig-N-Rig is a pretty neat ASCII sidescroller where you are a little robot that has to dig all the way down to the Earth's core.  On the way down, you have to build conveyor belts to transport the minerals you find back to the lab, where you can buy upgrades for your little robot such as new drills, jetpack, dynamite, the works.

Here's a little link to the article and video on Indiegames.com: Dig-N-Rig

[Meta]

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I'll update this post with my impression.

Download link for the game

[Edit]
Nice game. The graphics are enjoyable, the music is 8-bits and the gameplay is quite good, but a bit repetitive.

[adwarf]

Looks fun downloading now.

[joemoben]

kinda reminds me of motherlode downloading now

[Frumple]

S'pretty neat, though I managed to lose 90% of my health and crash the game shortly thereafter within about 10-15 min of play

Might want to be careful with the vac while close to the extreme right of the map.

[zakkeh]

yeahh, I ran into the crash on vacuuming the extreme right. Wish scoops, the vertical belts, were less expensive. I can only see them being useful, tbh

[adwarf]

Just crashed my game by making a scopp repeatably drop about 100 minerals non stop (Damn crappy laptop.)

[Frumple]

Did a bit more, being careful to leave the right alone. There's now about two screens worth of empty space, barring a small bit on the right. Strip mining~

I'm curious as to what happens in the end, if there is any end. So far, things seem to be pretty horrific -- vicious, obviously unsustainable strip mining and resource exploitation mixed with violent reaction to native life. Plus your lab is sitting on this little bit of protruding land over a vast, robot-made abyss.

I could totally see this riffing on anti-extreme capitalism/manifest destiny after everything (i.e. the lab) comes crashing down.

[debvon]

Well that was entertaining. I crashed as well though I was nowhere near the right side of the screen, I think I was messing around with the vacuum. Unfortunately I hadn't saved, so I lost all progress.. I was pretty far down.

[Rhodan]

I dug out almost every single bit of soil, including the moon and stars, and nothing came crashing down.  If you reach the end, you can start over while keeping all your tool upgrades and continue to upgrade them over and over and over.

Pretty fun, but not very hard.  One of the first upgrades pretty much removes all danger from water or lava before you even encounter it.

[Cheese]

Downloading, this sounds awesome.

[Draco18s]

I got as far as the mole city before seeing any moles.  Promptly wasted all my life (and progress) trying to shoot them.

[Audioworm333]

This game is so fun and addicting.
Also...
Mining birds.
Beautifully Dwarven.

[Draco18s]

This game is so fun and addicting.
Also...
Mining birds.
Beautifully Dwarven.

So the ending is:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

You get to the core, find a treasure chest (which confuses the robot), and start over.  Only you keep all your upgrades and there's more to get, and more levels (like flying up and mining the moon).

[Tilla]

I couldn't get mine to save last night but I was playing this for a while. Still pretty cool.