Mined Out

Inspired by the ZX Spectrum game Mined Out, created by Ian Andrew and originally released in 1983.

Touch the I box for instructions on the menu screen or read below...

Choose your character and difficulty (1, 2 or 3 stars) and make your way across the minefield as quickly as you can, avoiding mines while collecting a key, shield and treasure chests on the way.

The mine indicator at the top-left of the screen shows how many mines are adjacent to you (up, down, left and right only, not diagonally) so make your way across the screen carefully!

Make sure you collect the key or the gate won't open...

Your overall score is based on collecting items, distance travelled and time taken.

You can reset the high scores by touching the dynamite plunger on the menu screen.

Controls:

• D-pad to move.
• The A and B buttons and crank aren't used.

Features:

• 2 character choices
• 3 difficulty levels
• Reset high scores with the plunger
  
• Lots of mines

Programming, graphics and sound effects: Slider271

Thanks to: 

• The Playdate dev forum for how-tos
• Neven Mrgan for the font (which I inverted)
• Ian Andrew for the original game design
• Panic for making such a cool little console and making it so accessible to develop for with Pulp

Known bugs

The timer doesn't pause when you press the Menu button. So don't pause :)

Installing:

Log in to your Playdate Account at play.date.

Go to your Account page.

Go to the Sideload page.

Click Choose a file then select your download of Mined Out to upload it.

Read full instructions, and other options to sideload games on the Playdate website.

Don't have a Playdate but want to play this game? You can! You'll need to install the Playdate SDK, and once installed you can unzip the game file, and double click the PDX file inside to start playing.