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Nice!

You definitely need to make it endless, don't increase difficulty and then add some sort of progression. Some tense parts needing pixel hunting are a bit off or just need extended margins.

This can be game for hours to play. Digital popit/spinner/simple-dimple.

As a puzzle - it progresses a bit slow, first dozens of levels are too easy. Also there is no progression, at least level number to grow - can't even say where I'm done.

The problem in both physics and graphics. Web version makes things 2 times worse. I made some patches, but it's still far from perfect unfortunately.

Sorry. I'm aware of issues, but max level I can achieve - playable on Steam Deck in Chrome.

Thank you!
I will address all issues in future updates!

Patched it to 1.0.1.
My tests show about x1.5 overall performance boost.

Also changed physics setting to be more straight - it's 30/60/120 physics frames per second. Less frames - less CPU demand and more stable, but less smooth result.

You can tune it to match your hardware.

Some drops during mining deep holes in large asteroids are expected. To address it I need to rewrite whole destruction system, so this will take more time. Beyound that, game is playable (played in 30 FPS on i3-6200U in energy saving mode till end)

Thank you, hope you will enjoy Shards of Minor Planets!

Thank you for info! I will check how can I optimize overall performance.
Probably I missed something heavy but useless or at leas will be able to improve to playable grade.

P.S. Sorry for misleading "CPU Utilization=high", it's actually physics FPS, low=30, high=60. Low may be more stable in this case, but still - I need to fix overall performance, now I see that even main menu on intel 6200U is 50FPS which is BS level of optimization. My bad.

Thank you for feedback!

Unfortunately Godot web performance is really bad and limited to 1 thread. And even this 1 thread in web works x2 slower than natively.

I admit that some in-game situations are magnitude more cpu-intensive than needed (like when many objects collide or asteroids get complex collision shapes after mining). I definitely need to improve it. But it should not fire too often and affect overall gameplay, just some cases that you usually encounter with time or intentionally.

If you don't mind, could you share your hardware configuration, monitor resolution and refresh rate and browser? I played game in Chrome/Firefox, on Intel 6100U (FHD, 30FPS max, can't handle intensive scenes), AMD 5600H (FHD, 144FPS, no issues) and Apple M1 (4K, 120FPS, no issues).
Maybe, there is something related to VSync causing glitches that I just can't reproduce due to lack of hardware to try.
Thank you again, it will be very useful if you provide me with additional info.

Meme is not a word?

mmkay

Thank you for feedback and playing game!

Tools are more like auxiliary game mechanic to overcome frustrating issues of classic minesweeper - 50/50, first cell with 1 and so on. Less experienced players (like me when I started this project) can play minesweeper and use tools instead of puzzle but it's designed to be slower. Tools are not designed to replace puzzle.

I thought a lot about more real-life experience (e.g. wiki contains a lot of "potential mechanics" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demining) but it makes project a lot bigger. I may return to it in Minesweeper with tools 2 though =)

Thank you! You're right, I plan to fix these issues in the nearest future
One note about right click - mobile doesn't support it, and even long tap frustrates much more than current game menu. I would like to introduce option (m.b. determined automagically) to enable right-click. But i need to figure out how to support some browsers with feature 'mouse gestures' which conflicts with right click (it usually throws you away from page if you use LMB and RMB at the same time).

Sorry, but hex support means total remake which I can't afford. Almost all assets and many algorithms need to be adjusted.

Thank you!
Agreed, seems that movement is a bit slow, I will try improve it. Maybe introducing new game mode without protagonist at all, much more like in classic minesweeper.