Love this game. The progression is very addicting. If I had to nickpick some of the upgrades feel like setbacks at first, like shrinking the ores, and speed of the drill. Technically though these fit the theme, but gameplay wise it's not very rewarding. Another nitpick is the coils at first aren't very good compared to the TNT. That is fine but I think the beginning tesla coil unlocks are too expensive for how much they suck compared to one TNT. But really great game. I got sucked in and finished it in a half hour.
PS I appreciate the details like moving the camera around a bit with drill movement, that kind of polish is why having a small scope like this for gamejams is so important.
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Thank you so much for playing the whole game! All of your de back is actually S Tier level stuff! I’ve seen people can afford ore level three (makes ore red from purple) but then they want to buy other stuff fisrt so thry just replay 3 times with no extra upgrades because they want to be more powerful.
It’s pretty funny. I designed my game so the player’s relative power (how much dps compared to ore health) goes up and down throughout the game so that the high moments hit really high. But in effect people don’t enjoy it that much so either my execution is poor or the idea is bad to begin with. I think my execuis just poor.
I agree the balance for the tesla coils when you first get them sucks! When I make a full game version I’m really gonna accelerate the mid to late game which I didn’t have a lot of time to polish. By they way I’m really impressed with your feedback and you seem cool to chat with. Do wanna chat with me on discord?