Mines of Alorah
My second game jam!
An incremental mining game.
Available in-browser or download!
Made for New Years Incremental Game Jam 2024.
Theme "Pressure".
The way I implemented the theme is by using the player's debts as "Financial Pressure".
Enjoy!
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nice and simple Cookie Clicker-style game.
I wish there was one last extra upgrade at the end of the game though, the last 20% are too grindy to get without an auto-clicker. the first 80% is nice since there's always a new tier of upgrades that brings a big speed-up, so a single upgrade past the 1.4M one would be enough for that to carry you up to the 100% ^^
Yeah, I agree. I think that one last upgrade tier would help balance out the end-game. Thanks for the feedback and thanks for playing!
I would suggest to improve of the preassure thing, that you make the player buy the mine (0 at the start - then you enter into the debt) and that the debt increases every second due to intrest payments, so that you have the preassure to improve or go under in your debt
Great idea! Thanks for playing.
Good visuals and juice. Finished in about 5 minutes with an autoclicker at 1000 clicks / sec, so speed is good.
The game is very simple in terms of mechanics as the upgrades only increase the clicking strength or the silver rate. Maybe adding a second currency (other metals?) would be cool.
Also, the debt does not feel like actually debt. Debt increases overtime due to interest rates and not paying debt it time leads to bankruptcy. So there is no real pressure to pay it off as you can take your time.
Yeah, I should add some sort of interest and penalty system. Thanks for your feedback and thanks for playing!
heccin unbalanced, only got to 61% ._.
Thanks for playing! I'll drop a balance patch tomorrow and probably overhaul the store. I'll reply to your comment so you get a notification once the update is out. Cheers!
math stuff: the price of the taxes follows 10*1.2^x, and doing summation magic shows that the total silver needed to pay off taxes is 5 billion. assuming you get 200 silver from one click and click at 50 clicks a second (yes very humanly possible), you get 10k silver a second. you would need to click for half a million seconds, when converted to days is about 6 days, so you would need to leave an autoclicker (cuz ya cant click at 50cps for a week) on for 6 days and leave it there in order to finish this game. so while it is possible, have fun trying to actually reach that :D (also, if you dont have an autoclicker and wanna see how long it takes to finish it without the clicking, just multiply by 50, leading to 120 days[180 days if you cant reach 200 silver a sec]). so tldr, finishing this game would take 6 days to 180 days depending on stuff.
wow, this is probably the longest comment i ever made
I just released the update. Make sure you clear your browser cache, it might have your previous game saved. Enjoy!
nice!
a fun 20 minutes (with autoclicker), i enjoyed the game and would like something that makes it interesting (doesnt need to be big, something like flavor text is cool).
some minor quirks and suggestions :
the controls in the options don't seem to be used at all, though it's probably from a game template.
the pickaxe cursor is a bit hard to use as the tip of the pickaxe isnt exactly where the mouse it
the game seems to freeze for a second when loading particles
again, these are minor and are fine if they stay in the game but would add a nice QOL :)
Yeah, I should remove the Controls tab in the options menu, added to my to-do list.
The pickaxe cursor is annoying, I'll try to find some sort of fix for this.
I have a 3070ti so I have never experienced the particle freeze, I'll reduce the amount of particles spawned and hopefully that fixes it.
Thanks for your feedback!
With 43% debt paid and 150 silver per second, chat gpt is telling me that it will take 5 years to pay off the remaining debt. I'm not sure if that is correct but I may not be able to complete this game.
I only need 7 million silver per second to complete the game within an hour. I don't think I'm going to make it.
You can do it! Keep clicking! 😂
I'll update the game tomorrow so that it's actually beatable.
Thanks for playing!
I'm not sure why I posted that since you did say it was unbalanced. Just found it funny. When GPT found the answer I told it I was quitting and it said I needed to be patient 🤣I'll try again later.
Update is live! Make sure you clear your browser cache, it might have saved your data. Enjoy!
dang, gpt is pretty off from what i calculated
Yeah it was. Can eventually tease it towards a more correct answer if you tell it it's wrong enough times but not usually worth doing.