Better, but I much prefer the wider waves of your first attempt. The colors were also better there, imo.

Uhm, okay. Anything specific about the dirt that makes it not look like dirt? How should I go about fixing this? You've been awfully vague as to any possible solution to this problem.

hehe, sorry about that. The circles don't read as being dirt, dirt doesn't contain such large particles. Smaller bits should be used. Also, only two colors are really visible in the dirt, so that third one should be more visible, make it lighter.

Here's a reference pic from Secret of Mana 3: http://web.cs.wpi.edu/~claypool/courses/frontiers-06/samples/pixel-artist/13.gif
Top-down, but that doesn't really matter for something like this. Dirt is dirt is dirt, looks the same from every angle, imo at least.

Wow..that is just absolutely beautiful (or horribly grotesque, depending on how you look at it ) I have no crits, I think you should call this one finished.

I say this deserves to be featured. 

The "M" in "King Me!" in that last pic is very hard to read.

No crits beyond that, I can even deal with the mirrored side panel things.

Looks much better now that the robots and mines are different colors.

About the game, it would look way better if the player and robots visually moved instead of simply jumping to a new position. Tougher to code, but certainly worth it. Also, I think it would make more sense to use the arrow keys for movement, mainly because laptop users won't be able to play the game in its current state.