Heyo, I'm gruebite, and this year I'm making Aurumorium!

Aurumorium is an incremental mining roguelike where you carve your way through walls in an endless cavern. You play as a golem powered by pure avarice (and a philosopher's stone), transmuting walls into gold which you spend on forging evermore destructive cantrips. You're under the command of an alchemist who periodically imposes a tax, both a flat fee and a percentage, on the gold you've collected.

The idea is inspired by one of my favorite dungeon generation techniques: the humble random walk. Early in the game, you'll be slowly carving your way through the cavern, but as you collect powerful cantrips, the golem will be blitzing around, unleashing a cascade of satisfying effects. My plan for cantrips is pretty simple and should accommodate both order and chaos.

Good luck, everyone!

Good luck, I'm always curious about your 7DRLs!

Approaching the halfway point and I'm pretty happy with where the project is at!  It's not quite a game yet, but you can try it out here: https://gruebite.itch.io/aurumorium

And a quick gif of the golem mining some walls

What I've done so far

• Cave generation with infrequent, but trackable gold
• Can cast cantrips with some basic effects
• Core of the UI, including an inventory for cantrips and a forging option (not fully developed)

What I have planned

• The alchemist, your creator, taxes you increasingly and periodically based on your spent essence
  
• A game mode where you're free from taxes
• Way more cantrips, with several tiers of power
• Forging random cantrips, even powerful ones early, but they're rare
• Forge level ups, increasing your chances for powerful cantrips
• Exploding gold animations and sounds

And I have more, but those will come later!

Thanks Vedor!  Good luck with yours. :)

Welp, it's over. Overall, I'm quite happy with the result! It certainly needs some balancing and a couple other things, but it's a fun toy. I think future development would focus on expanding the cantrip harmony/discord mechanic, which I find pretty interesting. I can also see giving the alchemist more of a character and a means for other mechanics. I think the fun is really in finding a group of cantrips that can be cast cyclically for as long as it's efficient to do so.

A preview of some gold explosions:

I already added a post-jam update that fixes an issue from a comment made. It was a minor UI/data desync. Play it here: https://gruebite.itch.io/aurumorium !