Cryptopia

balladofsong 2018-04-24 22:34

I had fun destroying the garbage, but afterwards I ended up getting stuck between the five rooms. I seemed like I wasn't able to do anything with the garbage that was destroyed on the walls. Did I miss something? (I couldn't figure out how to get the right mouse button to work.) Otherwise, the art was good and simple and the music was intense. I felt the pressure from the music, which in this case was a good thing because there is no timer. The music kept pushing me forward to look for new ways around the world. Great Game!

elfcirynn 2018-04-24 23:09

You've accurately replicated exactly how much fun mining cryptocurrency is? I'm not entirely sure what your genres were, the music was way more intense than the gameplay (also super loud), the graphics were minimalistic (to the point where I wasn't sure what I was looking at most of the time, maybe include some kind of tutorial/legend/key?). The color scheme was nice. I wish the majority of the games contents were explorable in a shorter amount of time (most people aren't looking for an hours worth of gameplay). Congrats on your entry, looking forward to see what you do for LD42.

mediyaz 2018-04-25 07:54

pssst - if you want to see more of the game in a shorter space of time, you can press backspace then type in 31031989 to enable cheat mode! This will remove all the garbage clogging up the paths and allow you to charge up your beam instantly (press C), get a piece of cryptocurrency (press O), get a whole load of resources (press M), or receive a human consciousness to put in a shell (press I) - I'm going to add this to the game description for reviewers in a hurry!

mediyaz 2018-04-25 07:58

@BalladofSong Thanks for playing! I didn’t have time to implement a tutorial so apologies that you got stuck.

Once you collect 100 bits of tech (the number at the top left that increases every time you destroy some garbage) you can build solar arrays on the cleared-out blue outdoor plots of land. These charge up and can give you an extra-powerful shot that can clear through garbage quicker, you can charge up by right-clicking once a solar array has filled up. This charged shot can by used to power the green mining rigs you can find around the map. When you power-up the green rigs, they slowly generate cryptocurrency - when they turn white you can click on them to pick it up, and drop it in one of the two yellow conduits on the map so that you can use it to buy things with. You can buy more mining rigs on the indoor plots of land with this cryptocurrency, to make more crptocurrency faster! If you earn enough you can build shells for human conciousness on the orange indoor plots 👍

I’m glad you enjoyed it - personally my favourite part is building a whole load of solar arrays so that you can nearly always become charged by clicking the right mouse button, and blasting my way through garbage or recharging my mining rigs at lightning speed!

mediyaz 2018-04-25 08:05

@Elfcirynn Thanks for playing and your honest feedback - yes I definitely need a tutorial or help screen or SOMETHING - Going to be working to implement that tonight actually 😅 If you fancy playing again, you can cheat to clear out all the garbage and press M to get infinite money so you can peep the endgame. My genres were Dystopia and Uptopia! Is what we're seeing in the game a Dystopia? It certainly is for the robots, but for the humans? We only get a glimpse at the peaceful carefree Utopian lives they lead in their eternal virtual existence while robots clean up the world, generate their power, earn their money and take care of their physical computers their minds inhabit. It started out as a combination of gritty brutal sci-fi + quaint chilled farming simulator and kinda evolved from there!

eugene-myach 2018-04-27 16:38

I did not understand the game. But I was having fun. )_[Untitled]-1.0 (RGB color, 1 layer) 3000x3000 – GIMP 2018-04-27 19.36.28.png

tweedle 2018-04-28 17:31

digged the art and music the most but can't rate either category :shrug: great overall mood!

mediyaz 2018-05-03 08:48

@Eugene Myach WOW I think you're the only person other than me to have cleared out the whole map - congratulations! Thank you for playing and sticking with it even though the game didn't explain itself to you clearly. When you say you didn't understand, do you mean - you didn't understand what you had to do? - or you didn't understand what was happening and why?

I've recently released a small update so that no all the buildings and plots have hoverstates that give you a little more instruction on how to interact with them - That might help you finish the game if you wanted to play it some more! If so, tell me how you got on! 😁

mediyaz 2018-05-03 08:58

@tweedle I gahd! I was only supposed to opt out of the audio category! I've fixed that now so feel free to drop by and leave a review? ☺️ And if you digged the music, it's actually my brother's tune - you can check him out on soundcloud here: https://soundcloud.com/chimetunes. Thanks for playing!

profit 2018-05-04 06:34

Well hope you get more reviews. it was fun. like the music but yah guess i cant rate that. Interesting game play. cleared everything out before i realized i needed to mine more. now i wait i guess. and see what happens. once i have 50 to spend on a shell?

Should of had your brother bust out another song for the game real quick.

mediyaz 2018-05-04 08:18

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@pRoFiT Yeah I considered asking my bro for a quick track but he was off doing a tour of the USA at the time 😅I'll tell him his music has been getting mad props though 💪

Yeah - Once you buy a Shell and charge it up, it'll be ready for you to insert an IMMORTAL CONSCIOUSNESS which you can get from one of the 2 orangey tubes that light up once you build your first shell - once you pick it up from there and insert it in a shell you have to take care of it and make sure it doesn't run out of energy. Find, build and fill all 10 shells to get the sector to max capacity and WIN🤩Now back to work little robot while we humans piss about in an eternal utopian cyberspace while you have to clear up the millennia of garbage we made 😛

Thanks for playing! I've added your game (and everyone elses' who has commented) to my growing list of games to play and rate!

PS - sorry if you're getting slowdown while playing - I made this game fast and dirty and I'm now going back through and making a bunch of optimisations so you don't have to play slo-mobiusly!

2022-09-27 10:05

If you take cryptocurrencies, I am now looking more closely at mining. I find the process intriguing and it allows me to be more hands-on with my investment. For me, it's a more engaging way to generate returns. I know it's pretty hard to find a good mining guide, so I recommend you read https://sharemontinvestments.com/how-to-mine-safemoon-crypto-the-ultimate-guide/. So far I haven't found any better material than this guide. I think now is the right time to start mining altcoins after the ether switch to POS.