Dynamine combines Minesweeper mechanics with idle progression, asking you to excavate ores while carefully skirting explosives. You'll sell your finds to fund tool upgrades that increase your digging efficiency, creating a loop of safer and faster mining runs. Best suited for players who enjoy puzzle-like risk-reward decisions wrapped in an incremental framework.
About this game
Dynamine is an incremental mining game based on Minesweeper. Dig for ores while avoiding explosives, sell what you found, buy better tools to dig more efficiently, then rinse and repeat!
ChangesHitting a mine and causing an explosion now causes all destroyed tiles to be replaced by indestructible walls.Hopefully, this should disincentivize from carelessly hitting walls at random, without being as harsh of a punishment as a complete reset.Changed the color palette of most sprites.The game now asks you if you want to continue the saved level AFTER selecting the level.Technical changesUpdated engine to version 4.7.Save directory structure has been changed.This was done to accommodate for Steam's Cloud Sync feature, which will come in a future update.You shouldn't have lost any significant progress, though some data may have not been transferred.
Fixes:The pause menu no longer opens above the inventory or other GUIs when tabbing out of the game with “pause on lost focus” enabled.Keep on grinding! :)
You can now save the game!It has been requested since the first prototype and now it’s here! You can now save the game at any time, quit, and continue from where you left off.Mining an explosive also no longer cause a game over. You will need to pay for the damage you caused, but after that you will be able to keep playing in the same level.My initial vision for this game was for it to work like a Roguelike, where you play for some time in your first run, make a mistake, then try again in a new run and try to last longer. I was also planning to add integration with the Steam leaderboard at some point and allow players to compete for the best score. After testing the game for some time and seeing people’s feedback about the demo, I decided to change direction and allow you to save your progress for the current level at any time. The leaderboard integration is also probably not going to be added anymore, at least not in the way I initially planned.Gameplay changesThe game now saves automatically when you quit a level.Works both when returning to the title screen from the pause menu and when closing the application.When you click “Start game” in the title screen, you will now be asked if you want to continue the saved level or start a new one.Continuing the game puts you back in the middle of the mine and everything is as you left.If you choose to start a new level, the old saved one will be deleted.Mining an explosives no longer resets the mine.When you hit a mine, you will now lose your inventory and half of your money.You can then come back to where you died and continue mining.The penalty can be configured from the accessibility settings.You can adjust the percentage of money lost from 50% to none.You can choose whether you want to lose your inventory or not.Time and score have been removed (for now).The contents of your backpack are now saved in between runs.You no longer have to worry about forgetting to sell your ores!Technical changesPerformance improvement to ...
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