Comments on: SteamWorld Dig

By: SteamWorld Dig 2 | Indie Gamer Chick

SteamWorld Dig 2 | Indie Gamer Chick — Sat, 07 Oct 2017 08:35:41 +0000

[…] out.” They might be my friends, but I have responsibilities as a game critic. I already liked SteamWorld Dig. I already liked SteamWorld Heist. It’s safe to say my enjoyment of their previous efforts […]

By: SteamWorld Heist | Indie Gamer Chick

SteamWorld Heist | Indie Gamer Chick — Mon, 28 Dec 2015 01:36:38 +0000

[…] 3-pointers. SteamWorld Heist is not a sequel to their critically acclaimed mining time sink SteamWorld Dig. It’s a completely different style of game, with a new set of characters and new gameplay […]

By: Indie Gamer Chick

Indie Gamer Chick — Tue, 01 Jul 2014 18:04:24 +0000

In reply to chrismorrison (@chrismorrison). Rabbit Season.

By: chrismorrison (@chrismorrison)

chrismorrison (@chrismorrison) — Tue, 01 Jul 2014 18:00:07 +0000

In reply to Indie Gamer Chick. No, you're imagining that she imagined your smugness. It was my smugness over imagined smugness that she did or did not imagine, and damnit, you're not taking that away.

By: Indie Gamer Chick

Indie Gamer Chick — Tue, 01 Jul 2014 17:52:41 +0000

In reply to Melting Sky. I think you're imagining my smugness about the imagined smugness of others :P

By: Melting Sky

Melting Sky — Mon, 30 Jun 2014 17:02:29 +0000

In reply to Chris Morrison. You seem very smug about pointing out the imagined smugness of others... ; )

By: Indie Gamer Chick

Indie Gamer Chick — Fri, 07 Feb 2014 17:43:16 +0000

In reply to Chris Morrison. I assure you, there was no smugness here. I was trying to create a humorous narrative to go with the review. I try to be a little more than a game critic with a checklist of likes and dislikes.

By: Chris Morrison

Chris Morrison — Fri, 07 Feb 2014 10:29:04 +0000

As they’d admit to playing pretty much every other digging-related game if asked specifically.

My point is – you seem very smug about having noticed a single similar game, but there are only a tiny, tiny handful of new games coming out that don’t have literally dozens of predecessors and influences. It’d be cool if gaming journalists did a little competitive research, just as game developers do. It’s quite literally takes 5 minutes of Googling to unearth a hell of a lot of relevant info.

By: Indie Gamer Chick

Indie Gamer Chick — Thu, 06 Feb 2014 23:36:16 +0000

In reply to Chris Morrison. The developers themselves admitted they had played Miner Dig Deep.

By: Chris Morrison

Chris Morrison — Thu, 06 Feb 2014 19:42:05 +0000

This genre of games started with Motherload, which was a crumby Flash game released way before Miner Dig Deep or, for that matter, Minecraft. Motherload was fairly original, but the “digging stuff” idea goes back to Dig Dug (or further!).

So the office bet on whether the Steamworld guys would fess up to copying Miner Dig Deep is.. kinda dumb.