Triple-A Minesweeper (minesweeper.mikelacher.com)

408 pointsby robin_reala6 hours ago87 comments

devin 4 hours ago

So good.

Maybe lean into some of the metal gear solid dialogue by having a long back and forth about "What's a mine?" "What do you mean 'mark a mine'?" "How do I know when I'm done?" etc.

mkobit 4 hours ago

I really enjoy this trope. The "Zelda Ocarina of Time if it were a modern game" series has the MGS style discussion, and the whole series is incredible.

Here is the forest temple video which is a short sample of what to expect: https://youtu.be/KC656o7_zVk

dormento 2 hours ago

"Sweeper, press the X button to mark a mine."

"X... button?"

"Focus, Sweeper! Sweeper? SWEEPEEEER!"

siva7 12 minutes ago

I liked the triple-a minesweeper better than the windows original. First time i won the game.

NSUserDefaults 3 hours ago

Nice but the logos are skippable, which is not realistic.

LugosFergus 2 hours ago

Also, since it's an Unreal game, it's missing long load times, camera jitter, frame spikes, and dynamic resolution constantly kicking in.

easterncalculus an hour ago

but muh Steam's 30% cut, or something

dijit 7 minutes ago

Unreal Engine and the Epic Games Store have nothing to do with each other really.

You can get some royalty fee's reduced by launching on Epic Games Store but that's it.

Most Unreal Engine games are distributed by Steam.

ALSO, fun fact while we're here.. to display the Unreal Engine logo on startup you're supposed to ask Epic Games for permission; but since it's the default project splash screen (meant to be replaced) people just assume that they want the publicity and that it's part of using the engine- Epic doesn't feel like enforcing this because they don't see the point.

So, feel free to remove it, and if you see it, just know that the developers very likely didn't read the agreement they signed when they started using the Engine :)

Source: the last unreal engine technical advisory board in Stockholm; I too didn't read this from the agreement ...

guyzero an hour ago

I wished it was just all into logos and no actual game. That's the real AAA experience.

Youden an hour ago

Does anyone know if the voices are AI-generated? I was a little surprised; I don't think I would have questioned it if I heard them in a real game or video but since this seems to basically be a joke, I'm doubtful real voice actors were used.

EleKtr1X 18 minutes ago

they definitely sound ai generated yeah

MYEUHD 2 hours ago

AAA Mario (1m41s video): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMh_APo2Xss

grumbel 3 hours ago

There is also the classic "Minesweeper - The Movie"[1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHY8NKj3RKs

fidotron 4 hours ago

But I didn't need to install a publisher specific launcher to run it.

ravenstine 3 hours ago

And then be forced to download a 42GiB update.

ASalazarMX an hour ago

And accept telemetry and marketing!

xbar 3 hours ago

I was angry at the wasted 30 seconds of opening licensed 3rd party software listings, but I stayed through to the end of the credits roll, laughing until I cried.

This is Art.

nottorp 3 hours ago

I think the opening logo sequence is too short. Also it's missing agreement to 2-3 EULAs that you have to scroll down all the way for the accept button to get enabled. And the epilepsy warning. And the disclaimer that it's all a work of fiction.

jameshart 3 hours ago

Failed certification because it didn’t warn you not to turn off when the save icon is spinning.

adamanonymous 2 hours ago

Also missing the redirect to your browser to connect to Epic Games and create a SweeperPro account with 2FA

Toutouxc 2 hours ago

I was hoping for the thing where you play through like half of the game and only then it shows you the title against a dramatic vista.

theroadnotbacon 3 hours ago

I was absolutely hoping to see production babies in the credits. Can’t win ‘em all.

jameshart 3 hours ago

No pets credited either.

cootsnuck 29 minutes ago

I'm curious which TTS model was used for the "Nora" voice. I kept noticing vocal artifacts in her speech disfluencies. Which bothers me more than it probably should...

lapetitejort 4 hours ago

Missing:

Sidequest to sweep 10 mines.

Achievement after sweeping 5 mines

The yellow diamond is nice but what if I don't notice the diamond? I need a colored scent trail leading from my cursor to the yellow diamond, and a pinging noise when my cursor is near a mine

Mocapped mines

Jack Quaid

$70

rf15 4 hours ago

Sorry, did you mean Achievement for Starting the Game for the First Time?

buran77 3 hours ago

"Only 7.89% of gamers unlocked this".

jandrese 3 hours ago

There should be additional audio logs you can find under some squares that provide snippits of backstory.

lapetitejort 3 hours ago

This is minesweeper 33. I'n out sweeping mines and I ran across one that looks different than the others. I'll keep investigating while mine sweeping. I'm recording this 30 second clip onto an entire recording device with a 64gb SD card. I'll leave it on this rock for others to find. Don't worry, I have 11 other devices to record my short messages. Wait, the mine, it's glowing! I can't--

RobotToaster 2 hours ago

Those will be in the $50 DLC

donkey_brains 4 hours ago

So good. Looking forward to level 2 so we can find out what happened in Singapore.

jameshart 3 hours ago

That will be coming in the first DLC in a few months, delayed because it is being developed by a new team after the original development studio was bought by Activision, retasked to making a mobile solitaire game, then laid off.

testycool 13 minutes ago

Was expecting Hideo Kojima in the credits.

LunicLynx 3 hours ago

Needs:

- Checkpoints after each mine

- DLC for rounded corners

thesuitonym 2 hours ago

The DLC is a hat for John Sweeper.

hiccuphippo an hour ago

It really does need a store with skins, several kinds of currencies, and loot boxes!

MisterMunchkin 4 hours ago

Please expand this into a full open-world minesweeping game

TheAtomic 32 minutes ago

Is there a help card? Or, how do you turn off the CC captions? They obscure the bottom of the play field on my Mactop.

1970-01-01 21 minutes ago

Needs a 128GB RAM, 100GB free disk space requirement.

franze 4 hours ago

so, in case if you like minesweeper and doom ... https://dreadsweeper.franzai.com/

mlekoszek an hour ago

Needs an 'always online' requirement

xoxxala 3 hours ago

10/10 story. I look forward to the forthcoming motion picture adaptation from Skydance directed by Michael Bay.

test6554 3 hours ago

After Singapore, there just wasn't any choice.

m_w_ 2 hours ago

Great parody - very "Focus, M"-esque. Often, it feels that we've lost sight of "If it's not fun, why bother".

jandrese 3 hours ago

I like the part where it doesn't even matter if you hit a mine, you are on this train ride regardless of what you do.

ben_w 2 hours ago

Despite all the stuff it's parodying, this is still a lot better than Bomberman: Act Zero.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bomberman%3A_Act_Zero

progforlyfe an hour ago

You need to add achievements/trophies! Definitely need to achieve a trophy for clicking on the very first square, finding the first mine, your first flag, etc.

derac 2 hours ago

What no 30 minute shaders compiling sequence?