Deep Space Mining

flaterectomy 2019-10-08 12:35

I was confused whether this was a hands-on space mining game or a management game at first. I took out two 5k loans and bought a ship and pilot, eventually added another ship+pilot to my fleet and paid off my loans. I then realized I could fly a ship myself, but it was slow and cumbersome, and the automated pilots worked faster than I could.

Then I got some of the cruisers and made sure to stock up on some combat ships as well. A warning of pirates followed. Then the pirates came and killed everyone while my combat ships seemingly didn't do much in return? I supposed I should've piloted ships myself in order to fight back, so I did and immediately got blown up by a swarm of pirates.

I feel like there's more meat to this game from a management standpoint, and wish that was fleshed out a little over having the ability to fly ships myself.

weiiswurst 2019-10-08 12:36

Amazing game! Very addicting!

But: Please add a feature (after the jam) to zoom out, it would be so cool to see the action!

scottdev 2019-10-08 12:43

Nice Game! The buying a pilot feature was really nice cause I could just send as many as I could out and make alot of profit! At least before I got attacked :P

addnone 2019-10-08 12:44

This game has big potential. Please continue to develop it. Looking forward to it!

james-beninger 2019-10-08 12:50

I'm a sucker for this type of exponential resource-management game. I can see a number of ways to expand this into a full game. The ship selection at the start is a bit sparse, particularly if you get spammed with combat ships. It would be nice if the appearance of combat ships was delayed by a few minutes. The graphics and sound are great for this type of game.

hoshi 2019-10-08 12:50

Thank you four for your feedback.

@flaterectomy I think the main problem is that, yea, I attempted to go for the "do it yourself / hire someone to do it" balance right away, and that might have been a mistake. Should maybe have concentrated on the management element for the Jam release. I suspect adding a ship management interface (maybe a log telling you X or Y ship died / engaged in battle), aswell as a radar map to get a better view of the situation would be enough to more or less solve that problem. Thank you for your detailed feedback.

@weiiswurst You can already zoom in / out, maybe I should have specified that in the start menu... Or do you mean to be able to zoom out really far and get a "strategic view" of the area ? Thank you for your feedback !

@scottdev @addnone Thank you ! :)

weiiswurst 2019-10-08 12:57

@hoshi What are the keys to zoom in/out?

bocodillo 2019-10-08 13:03

I quite liked this one, the idea of piloting an ice hauler and managing a fleet of mining ships is really cool. The management stuff was a bit confusing at first but it was alright. The music, SFX and graphics were good. You already seem to have some ideas for how to extend a game like this, and it'd be really good to see that happen.

amigopadilha 2019-10-08 13:35

Great game, spent a lot of time playing it. I HATE pirates... destroyed my economy ='( Great job

hoshi 2019-10-08 13:50

@james-beninger Forgot to answer you in my last comment, you posted it while I was writing I think. Yes, your intuition about the potential of this game is right. I do plan on expanding it by quite a lot. Basically into an advanced X-like 2D game.

@weiiswurst It's scrollwheel !

@bocodillo Management needs a LOT of work. Eventually I want the player to be able to really build up a complex organisation, with synchronizations, conditional orders and also by naming commanding subordinates and giving them broader goals. Hell, maybe the player could himself work for someone else ? So many possibilities !

@amigopadilha Huehuehuehuehuehueheuheuehueheueheuhe One way of dealing with pirates is to delay their arrival by willingly indebting yourself more to keep your net worth down. Also taking more loans to quickly hire combat pilots is not a bad idea.

kszaku 2019-10-20 18:29

I really like management games, so I did enjoy the ideas you put there. However, pirates are a bit... Overwhelming? ;)