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WOW! You are the first one made it so far i guess :-) Congratulations.

Yes, unfortunately there is no ending. The whole game started with the idea to be super minimalistic with controls like atari, meaning you have a joytick and just one button. this is why in the first version i implemented it like you need to press fire and then a direction so he mines a block. same for up. press fire and move up makes a ladder. but then people complaint or gave good suggestions so i added mining above, i added torch and so on.

But because of the minimalistic approach, i did not want to throw tons of items and mechanics into the game, i was quickly out of idea and then new problems started. If you get deep enough, its a chore to always walk up again, sell everything and walk all the way down. So as you said, some kind of teleporter or maybe a checkpoint after 25-50m would be good.

Then i added chests, for some excitement but they are just ore,ladders and torches inside. Then the question is overall, whats the purpose of digging down further down. What is the goal? And i still have no idea. I don't want to just copy other game ideas.

If you have any suggestions, i would be glad to think about them and maybe i can implement new things :)

theoret ically good game. but is there anything "beyond" ? is it just one ore more and then upgrade damage? there need to be much more juice instead of that otherwise it gets annoying fast. incremantal games should not always be just add one more ore, then add more damage in skilltree bla bla :) would love to see more mechanics.

i made an update, so it is much clearer now. there was an invisible safety zone around the house. i made a premade hole now on the ground where you have to go down to start mining.

thank you! i wrote everything down and will see what i can do. everything is possible. for the torches unfortunately i would need to rewrite my lightning system. its just a black image above everything with a circle cutout that follows the player. no adding torches would change everything but i will see what i can do :)

And you are also completely right. Makes totally sense the point about the mouse. So i changed back, but instead of CTRL you use SPACE Key. I hope this should not affect any browser gameplay anymore, lol. I will keep that in mind what you said about using mouse. Thank you.

i changed the whole input system. does it work now? you need to press WSAD/ARROWS for a direction and then hold left mouse button.

Thank you for that constructive comment! You were absolutely right. I did update the controls. You can try it out.

it should work but i figured out my controls could cause problems on browser because you need to press CTRL and then WSAD at the same time and this could cause problems on browser because they are also shortcuts for saving or even closing tab, lol. so i am reworking controls right now.

Added some more tile variations and made a small game. Work in progress right now, so not quite finished yet :D https://meebou.itch.io/incremental-mining-game

i bought it a while ago, no i want to redownload it but its only FREEversion...where is my paid version?

awful, animations and controls are completely bad. its just the sprites from original prince of persia dos versions but the controls and animations just doesnt feel like the original prince of persia.

funny game. i would change how you pickup things. you walk around the ores a thousand times and still not picking up. it feels like all ores are rigidbodies??? there is absolutely no need for that to do that. just colliders and rigidbody only on your player, and then you make a greater circle collider on your player that picks everything up with OnTriggerEnter2D. it feels like you have a very small pickup radius and the ores are all blocking themselves with their rigidbody...no idea whats exactly wrong.

Ahh Blitz Basic says something. 20 Years ago i experimented with Blitz3D on PC, i guess thats similar to Blitz Basic 2 for Amiga. My parents are from poland, i was born in germany but i fully understand polish :)

Absolutely lovely! I loved H.E.R.O. on C64 so much! A few things that bother me. No Helicopter sound? That was the best on C64. When planting dynamite, no sound from the fuse? The butterfly was just flying between two points forth and back now its flying all over the place, which is awful annoying. That was NOT in C64 version. When finishing a level there where also unique sound effects for drainingh the power and getting points for remaining dynamites. It would be really cool to get nearer to the original :)

By the way, how did you do that? Assembler everything or something like Scorpion Engine? :) Czesc

This is so f*cking awesome. From a dev perspective, this is nothing else like "A game about digging a hole", its probably also marching cubes used but that game blew up and this here was just made in 3days for a JAM and its free :D i found it because i searched on how to reproduce that another game and came into marching cubes and this looks so awesome and it generated so much creative ideas for games where you can transform the terrain. Like a whole planet or just digging holes in the garden, lol.

I don't know if i can attach pictures here. My question is, do you plan to add more torch variations? For now you can put them only on front walls, but what's with the sidewalls and backwalls? I use a light/shadow engine so i need to place the torches all over the place but i can put them only on the top because i don't have sprites for sidewalls or bottom walls :)

https://imgur.com/a/26rkzp8

Great! Exactly what i was searching for. A small butterfly :-D Thank you.

he asked for the TILES, like 16x16, 32x32 EACH single tile...not the whole spritesheet :-)

omg, checked your itch.io so long for this pack, after seeing it on instagram. instant buy :-D

Super Asset! I purchased it and have a question. What's that "Swing" Folder? Is that some kind of moving platform or how is the "center.png" connected to the swing? Can you show an example maybe? :-) Thank you!!

the grab wall technique ist super unintuitive, super complicated. why not just a wallslide and walljump without grab? the dash effect is a particle system? means the direction of the particles are fixed and don't flip no matter if dash to the left or right. i hoped to see the platform in the demoscene like here in your gifs. your moving the player with rigidbody? this will 99% make problems for like when trying to use moving platforms, because its not 100% accurate. you coud leave that like that =) or redo the controller like "Sebastian Lague" did it on youtube and extend it with your ideas. but without the rigidbody thing. CORGI ENGINE (most sold 2d platformer engine) also doesnt use rigidbody, but raycasts and transform.position :-)

wow this is awesome. yes i have unfortunately tons of things i want but i don't want to overload you with work and spam the comment section. for example. now that we have single tiled paths there are tons of possible constelations. (https://imgur.com/a/9py1X5H just a sample of some constellations that came into my mind) and then from that single tiled you can extend to the bigger ones but they wont fit then anymore with your previous tiles :-) i guess that would be to much, to think about every possible constellation. and thats just for the path one :) the water island should also start with just one single tile alone and then can be extended in every direction and constellation :) if you could make that in a future version, this would be the most awesome asset pack =) and thank you for being so fast and responsive.

https://imgur.com/a/87O0Ili and the fences are not aligned well, if a fence is at the side of the 16x16x grid you cant put the next fence piece in the middle. i uploaded a sample :-)

the path sprites (brown ground), could you do maybe additional single sprites path? i want the player to create his own path, so if he clicks on a single 16x16 tile it should have a 16x16x path rectangle first and then he can extend it  as he wish. from single row path maybe to two rows or make the whole ground brown. (https://imgur.com/a/hqKSQLG) i mean shift the path so you dont need to make two sprites for one path. shift the sprite down so it fits into one square =)

i have no idea why itchio doesnt show pictures, but when i go to edit i see them again, lol. here i uploaded the screenshots https://imgur.com/a/gws9Idp

question. trying to make a small island right now with your tilepack. i cant find this corner part in your tileset. there is a corner part but without the shadow in the water :-/ 

(this is from your page above)

(this is from your tileset. no shadow corner water)

huh? i can't see the images i posted here....

do you maybe also work on commission? :-) is there a contract address to contact you? =)

i bought the bundle and added a small tipp so you reach your 10$ goal :-D

...how do i put the coins into the console? i can go left outside the sight and then never come back, probably i fall down offscreen... :)

you know.... there is a software called "jetbrains dotpeek". just open the file "Assembly-CSharp.dll" and you can read all the c# scripts :-) it works for any game. it is called reverse-engineering... must be a great university.