Miner Issues

miner one
miner two

The miners are looking for diamonds. But "he" is looking for miners.

Inspiration

We took inspiration from the many cooperative board and video games we've played as a group. Some of the most chaos-inducing mechanics we've experienced are limited communication and shared controls, so we decided: why not both?

What it does

Two players work together to control two in-game characters, each player sharing one half of the controls. They must cooperate to get both miners out of their cave, managing oxygen and avoiding the perils of the cavern.

How we built it

We used pygame to build the entire game. For the pixel art, it was all made from scratch.

Challenges we ran into

We wanted to make sure our game would scale past what we were able to work on, so making a modular board was a goal of ours, and something that gave us some trouble initially in pygame. We also faced some difficulty implementing a controller in addition to using keyboard controls. Something we struggled with was adding an enemy that would chase the miners around after the pressure plates have been activated.