S.U.R.V
Your new work buddy!
Manage a robot miner, upgrading it's parts to make it a more powerful, speedy and effective miner.
Save money to buy new upgrads across 9 different robotic parts.
Each part has 10 options so there are millions of possible combinations you can assemble. Changing parts will change your robots stats across Strength, Speed, Weight, Effeciency, Optics and Running cost. Optimise your build to be the fastest most effective money earning robot you can.
# Dev note 1
I am still tweaking the calculations of how the parts effect the robots performance, so any feedback would be appreciated.
# Dev note 2
I haven't added any music yet and the sound effects will probably be changed.
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Love the concept, could use some music and the ability to run in the back ground
You could maybe implement upgrading the ore you mine, such as a % chance to get an certain type of ore, no clue if thats based off of a robot upgrade currently, but I would also allow the game to continue if you switch off the tab, that could be an itch.io thing as well but its more of a quality of life sort of thing.
Hey! Thanks for your feedback! So at the moment the different type of ore is based on your distance, but I really like the idea that certain upgrades raise your chances of getting the high value ore. Another idea is that you can buy "Permits" for other mines, which have higher value blocks and so on, but the permit would run out after X amount of blocks. Any other ideas or feedback, let me know!
Also, in terms of the second tab thing, yeah, I'm not sure if its an itch thing, but you can run it in a new window so it works in the background, I will be uploading a windows and mac build soon, so you can just run it natively, only issue will be you will be starting again. I might try and do a migrate save thing.
very long wait till you can buy first upgrade
It's about half an hour. Do you think the first few upgrades should be cheaper?
obviously should only take like a min or 2 get first upgrade
Thanks for your feedback. I designed the game to be a really long play, so wanted the first upgrade to take a while, but its interesting to hear you think it should be sooner. I might look at implementing maybe a few extra upgrades that could be a lot cheaper, like 200 coins or something. They would have less effect on the stats of the robot but would allow you to do something a bit quicker.
yeah just artificial length not a great way of handling it add more content dont make it snail paced.
Have to agree, I immediately lost interest when I realized I couldn't actually do anything within the first couple minutes of "playing". Not so much a game as a really boring movie, if you have to wait a half hour to do literally anything. The way these kinds of games are meant to work, is that the upgrades start off super easy and fast to get, and then get harder/more time consuming to earn as time goes on, until you prestige and have to start from the beginning, with something new that makes it easier to get back to where you were (before prestiging) faster than the first time. You don't have to implement a prestige system, of course, but it's hard to get someone's interest when they can't actually do anything upon starting the game.
Hi! Thanks for taking the time to try it out and give me some feedback. If you're looking for a fast paced action game then this is most definetely not for you. I appreciate that other idle clickers move at different paces, some faster and some slower than this one. I personally like the ones that require patience.
I've never really seen this as a game, but more of a work companion who works while you work, and every few hours you can check on it and see if you can upgrade, more like a tamogotchi or something. It's definetely not a game that you will be staring at waiting for it to earn enough to do an upgrade.
Try leaving it on overnight or in the background on either a second screen, tablet or a new browser window, then after a few hours, give it a look. You never know, the patience and perseverence might end up being worth it. Maybe not. Never the less, thanks again for your feedback and giving it a go. Take care!