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It doesn’t require a graphics card

And game design isn’t about letting players play with no rules, it’s about solving problems.

As soon as players find out you can clear the whole world without repercussion, they will do exactly that, they will get bored, and they will get mad at me for making a boring game.

If given the chance, people will optimize the fun out of the game. Rules don’t exist to annoy players, they exist to protect players from themselves.

The numbers indicate how many of the neighbouring spots need to be pressed

You can wishlist it to be notified when it releases!

This is how it used to work, but then when you have nothing in your inventory it means you can just clear the whole world by dying repeatedly, which defeats the point of minesweeper

You can change how the numbers look in the settings

The full version will be available for mobile as well!

You can change the penalty in the settings

The main game mechanics are mostly done. Right now I’m focusing on adding content for the full game and balancing the economy, which is what takes the longest. I also work 9-5, so updates usually occur during weekends or evenings.

You can technically delete the save file manually if you want (It’s at %APPDATA%/Dynamine on Windows or ~/.local/share/Dynamine on Linux).

I think resetting all upgrades when you start a new level will make the game extremely grindy, especially when harder levels are added.

It’s what happens when you hit a mine.

You can decrease the penalty for dying in the settings if you want

Amazing artwork. The gameplay loop is also very enjoyable.

Very creative interpretation of the theme. I also love the art style that uses the cardboard cutouts. Though it took me quite a while to figure out where the target was.

Very creative take on the theme. Very relatable.

Amazing artwork. Impressive that it was done in just 4 days.

Also a really cool concept. Everything looks so cute ^-^.

The controls are a bit clunky, but not a big deal. It also took me a while to figure out the “problematic growths” were the pink ones though, I was removing every single organ at first.

This is really fun. I could see myself playing for hours.

I agree that the corridors are too narrow, didn’t have much time to fine tune the level unfortunately.

Initially I also wanted the space station to be randomly generated, but I would have never made it in time.

You can change the colours in the settings

You can lower the penalty in the settings if you want.

In the full game you will be able to descend to lower levels with more valuable ores, so it will be easier to make enough money for the excavator.

The game saves automatically. If you’re playing the browser version it might delete the saves of you clear the browser cache.

It appears when you die. It covers the area that exploded.

Edit: It’s fixed now!

–It’s a problem that affects the web version with the update that released today. I’m already working on a fix.–

It doesn’t spread

Yes, I’m definitely going to add more tools, but I want to save some for the 1.0 release.

1. Idk you should try asking the company

2. There is 1 per level

3. It has a chance of appearing after a certain distance

4. The map is infinite

I’m going to add the ability to save in the next update.

I think I’m going to change the death penalty as well and make it so that you lose your items and maybe half of your money, but the mine stays unless you choose to reset it.

For what concerns the minecart movement, you could move with WASD up until the last update, but I thought people couldn’t understand that you only needed to hold the starting direction to keep moving, otherwise if you had press a different direction at every turn, you would be slowed down quite significantly. Maybe I should revert it back to what it was?

It’s not in the game yet

The numbers tell you how many of the 8 surrounding buttons should be pushed.

You can change the colors of the numbers from the settings

It was removed because Itch’s full screen takes precedence over it, so making the game full screen through that made the option behave weirdly. You can still play in full screen using the button on the bottom-right.

The click to move feature is a highly requested one, though it’ll have to come later, since it needs a little more work (with pathfinding and such).

It was removed from the web version because the browser overrides it. You can still toggle full screen with the button on the bottom right.

There is only one level so far, but you can already find the elevator, though it’s completely random, so I’m considering changing the way it is placed.

Ores get better the further you go.

Also you do keep the rails you have in your inventory after you explode.

And if the rails aren’t straight, they shouldn’t slow you down. If you keep holding the same direction button you pressed to start moving, you keep going at the same speed.

I’m glad you’re enjoying it! I’ll make sure to balance upgrade prices and ore values as time goes by.

Thank you for your suggestions!

I was also planning to add a way to do something like a zoom-out.

I understand that there is not much to do as of now, I’ll try to add some more interesting things that reward you for exploring more.

For what concerns the numbers, there is an option in the accessibility settings to change their color or make them more visible. Maybe the default value for the transparency should be higher?

I was debating whether I wanted to add the ability to save. I understand it would be very convenient if you want to play for longer, but eventually I want to add an integration with the Steam leaderboard and I don’t want players to be able to reload previous saves and get an infinite score on the leaderboard. One solution would be to delete the save file when it is reloaded, but it wouldn’t prevent people from saving a copy of it somewhere else, otherwise I could stop counting the score if you reloaded a save file, but it would be kinda disappointing to not be able to save your score.

The game exiting fullscreen instead of closing the menu on the web was an oversight. I uploaded an update that adds a close button.

The map is infinite