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5	[[quoteright:320:[[VideoGame/BoulderDash https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/rsz_107498.png]]]]
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7	A genre of PuzzleGame with some sort of terrain to dig through and SelectiveGravity, wherein objects fall down (squashing characters in their path) but characters generally don't. They can be seen as PuzzlePlatformer with a flying protagonist, or a MazeGame with a more obstructed environment; the emphasis on solving puzzles as opposed to dexterity varies from one game to another. Also known as a rocks-and-diamonds game. Expect FastTunneling.
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9	The TropeCodifier is ''VideoGame/BoulderDash'' (of which a ''huge'' number of freeware ports exist), and many games in the genre name themselves after a kind of gemstone, a kind of cave, or both.
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11	!!Examples:
12	* ''VideoGame/BoulderDash''
13	* ''VideoGame/DiamondMine''
14	* ''VideoGame/DiamondDigger''
15	* ''VideoGame/DigDug''
16	* ''VideoGame/DomeKeeper''
17	* ''VideoGame/EmeraldMine''
18	* ''VideoGame/FruityFrank''
19	* ''VideoGame/{{Glean}}''
20	* ''VideoGame/LodeRunner''
21	* ''VideoGame/LegendOfMyra''
22	* ''VideoGame/{{Motherload}}''
23	* ''VideoGame/MrDo''
24	* ''VideoGame/MrDriller'' (unusual in that the player ''is'' subject to gravity)
25	* ''VideoGame/ThePit''
26	* ''VideoGame/{{Repton}}''
27	* ''VideoGame/RocksNDiamonds'' (Open source game that contains a level editor)
28	* ''VideoGame/SapphireYours''
29	* ''VideoGame/SubTerra''
30	* ''VideoGame/SubTerraDraconis''
31	* ''VideoGame/SupaPlex''
32	* ''VideoGame/VGAMiner''

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