Indie Developer seeks world domination
After seeing a lot more people getting a score in the game, thanks to the giant floating labels of knowledge, I thought just before I started rl work, that I would make a quick youtube video explaining how to play. Just to remove all risk of people getting confused by the gameplay aspects 🙂
Watch the video, then play the game here :
http://www.greenslimegames.com/games/spaceoreminer/
lamentconfig
Looking at the stats the I am collecting for SpaceOreMiner is quite intresting. Over 100 games played 🙂 More than I thought I would be getting 🙂
Now the big thing I have noticed is that the majority of people play three games. And in no game do they make any money. They just dig deeper and deeper down collecting ore, and then just run out of fuel. I’m going to release a new version of the game tonight which starts you with more fuel. I will also added some not very subtle text links on the ore reclaim point and the upgrade pad. To help people reach the first engine upgrade ( which I think is pretty important ) I will increase the value of the starting three ores. Thinking I may add a couple of starter tunnels as well.
So please feel free to give me feedback. Hopefully this update will de-mystify the game somewhat. I guess it has always made sense to me because I wrote the thing 🙂 I will be a very happy person if I see less scores of 0, and more score in the thousands 🙂 Or hundreds of thousands 🙂 Or BILLLIIOOONNS! 🙂
lamentconfigI found a really awesome post on the unity forums : http://forum.unity3d.com/threads/63282-Bump-maps-for-built-in-terrain which links to this awesome bit of code : http://sixtimesnothing.wordpress.com/2010/10/10/bump-mapping-for-built-in-unity-terrain/. I’ve played around a bit with it, to see if it will fit SpaceOreMiner, and you can see the results below :
Without :
Without mapping
With :
With Mapping
Still playing around with it, hence no updated web player – very interested to see what else I can use this for 🙂
lamentconfigAlmost hit 100 games played in the lifetime of the project. It may seem low, but I’m quite impressed 🙂 I thought I just would add a Top10 and TopAllPlayers to the stats screen. Though as there are only five registered accounts, the TopAllPlayers is a bit pointless, hehe.
You can see the top 10 here :
http://www.greenslimegames.com/games/spaceoreminer/stats.php
And to see all players scores :
http://www.greenslimegames.com/games/spaceoreminer/all_players.php
And for those to lazy to click on those links the top players ( and well, ahem, only registered players ) are as follows :
| Rank | Name | Total Ore Mined | Total Score |
| 1. | LamentConfig | 164 | 60700 |
| 2. | GhostHunter | 80 | 31100 |
| 3. | YouTube | 98 | 24100 |
| 4. | rob | 53 | 12550 |
| 5. | Inko | 11 | 1250 |