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Neat little mining game! I really liked the concept of it. I would suggests making the text scroll faster as it was a bit slow. The game also crashed a couple of times on me (even when the drill was already docked and didn’t die)
excellent game, I ran out of fuel many times.
Could be very interesting game when finished. Idea is really good and can be educational. Style also looks interesting. Only sad that it crashes when pressing E after drill dies :))
I liked the concept a lot. I think it has a lot of potential! If the HUDs were larger that would help. Also matching up what you mined with which to send back was hard, I just ended up pressing on the arrows until it no longer took any more. Being on the moon some physics to make the weight on the drilling machine less would be cool. I think you have a solid concept, I would be interested to see where it goes if you continue working on it. The music fit the atmosphere of the game really well!
Cool gameplay idea (a bit like dome keeper), but pretty confusing to play. The dialogue thing others have mentioned is definitely really annoying, and upgrades are mentioned but I couldn't find them anywhere, i tried clicking around too (why is there a cursor in this game while platforming??) and pressing random buttons but didn't find any upgrade screen. Sending stuff home just increased numbers but didn't do anything. The first robots says it's sending me a list, but it doesn't tell me what's needed, just shows 0 for all at first, and I increase them (both mine and the city's numbers) and nothing happens. Aside from confusion, I think the main thing I would suggest improving is making the movement more interesting, at least having acceleration and velocity, but also you can do things like bounce the player when they dig, or add gravity and jumping, etc. Movement is the main thing is player does to achieve their objectives.
Anyway, congrats on the entry, it's tough to build complex things like this!
Appreciate it! Yeah things started to get very complex fast towards the end of the jam. This ended up being a "Is it techincally a game" objective by the end. UI is a bit of a mess I agree, The goals are in the top left. Once you reach all the ore goals another rocket lands to take you home. Thanks for playing
I really liked the idea here! This was a fun almost minesweeper-like game that I could see polished and sinking a few hours into. It was pretty cozy until I started drilling further and couldn't make it back to the surface in time. I got greedy! My biggest complaint here would be the dialogue implementation. The interact button should display the final text faster and not skip completely. I also didn't like the text going behind the player, making it hard to read. In the end, got a black screen after losing my drill and then trying to enter it again. My guess is you moved the drill off-screen and the camera jumps to it when you try to re-enter. Great entry overall!
Sound settings would be cool. Also somehow everything ends in black screen :( even when I gathered everything. Also whats was the educational part of the game? Also an improvement would be to not skip the dialogs on pressing. Just show them directly.
Managed to drill a bunch, possibly offloaded some materials to the ship but wasn't super clear if I actually did, I also got hit by the black screen issue playing on web (clicking on the ship button and I assume dying.
loved the mining and the upgrades, did not manage to send anything home often however as the game just dies if ur a milisecond late from a mining run which was a little fustrating but all in all a solid base for what could be a super fun mining game. Great job in such a short time.
It was a little tricky to figure out what to do, after 5mins on walking back and forth i figured you could dig! didnt realise you had to keep clicking E to get in!
i collected some items but when i went to add them to the ship i couldn't send them. Music was soothing though!
Interesting idea. Sadly if you run out of fuel while mining the game is completely over, because the screen goes black. But overall it's an interesting concept.
That is definitely not supposed to happen 😅 That is a bug, were you using html or Windows?
HTML. Safari and chrome browser.