The Miner Scale
Developed for the Game off 2023 game jam, Theme: Scale
You have discovered mystical Dragons with precious resources hidden in their scales! Mine the scales to gain upgrades for your pickaxe and robot helpers. Collect all the upgrades from the seven different Dragon scales and prepare to fight the final dragon boss!
Mine adjacent scales to increase your combo and receive more scales when mining.
Bugfixes uploaded at 20:30, Dec 1st to fix bugs that made the game unplayable/unwinnable (game crashing/freezing).
Bugfix uploaded at 21:18, Dec 1st because a bug prevented the win screen from appearing after defeating the boss (Wrong sorting layer).
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Holy time waste Batman. This game really engages the player with the mechanics more than any other 'cookie clicker' games simply by making them move the mouse to mine and build combos. Some sort of explanation of the mechanics or a tutorial would be nice as it took me a minute to figure out what was going on. Overall, super polished game with a neat interpretation of the theme. Good job!
Thanks for checking out the game :D
A tutorial / tool tips is something we have been talking about wanting to add to smooth out the gameplay experience once the jam voting is over and we can make non game breaking bug fixes. We ended up pivoting our idea about half way through the jam after we realized our original idea wasn't gonna play how we wanted it to. So unfortunately it was something we had to cut due to the jam deadline fast approaching (as they always do lol) to get core gameplay finished and then hopefully really polish it up later.
combo was our fun way of giving players who wanted to actively mine more of an incentive and reward for engaging with the "clicker" aspect, but it is still beatable if u just wanna idle away and have your robot minions do all the work for you! Thanks for the feedback, glad you were able to figured things out.
I'd buy this on steam just with more levels. The explodebot wastes the effort of the drillbots. I'd like him to go off and find his own corner. Game broke at nature level 7 right after I bought the 0.5 second upgrade for the drillbots that requires nature rocks to buy. Not sure if that's what caused the break but the price didn't change so that's supsicious. It's still asking for 500 coal and 5 plants. (but the resources were consumed upon purchase) A little after that purchase the drillbots started one by one until they were all doing this, drilling a spot like normal and then all of a sudden drilling at super speed but never finishing in that same spot. Just stuck there. So I broke everything with the pick. It didn't matter. All tiles are mined but they still look unmined and level does not advance to next level. Bots still jittering in place at super speed.
Thanks for playing! We also discovered that bug and have uploaded a fixed version. You should be able to play all the way through to the boss now (I'm replaying again right now to make sure).
It sucks when you play for a long time and then it breaks, so I'm sorry that happened to you.
This was also developed for a game jam, so we ran out of time to balance the robots and upgrades more. But I definitely agree that they need more work. Thanks for the feedback!
Made it to the Omni and beat it. then the game locked up. is this the "Boss"?
Unfortunately, there should be a pop up that congratulates you for defeating the omni dragon and lets you go into free play mode. I'll see if I can fix that today. Thanks!