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In Ship Miner there are some Space Stations around asteroids where you can build drones to help with the task of mining and more. This also helps making exploration more rewarding I think.

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I wrote a blog post about how I am doing the marketing of Ship Miner and what I learned the last year of working on that.

Hope this information could be of help for others and that you like the content.

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Maybe sometimes you could get help from other "automated" miners... at least to find bugs in the code... I suppose this "development feature" started to feel like a thing to have in the game xD

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Testing some automatic players so I can stress test the game for bugs, but also could be the base for automated miners (for enemies and/or for friendly drones)

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Last week I started playing a bit with generating the asteroids shapes for Ship Miner with a bit of procgen and it is super fun and rewarding.

I was already doing procgen for the minerals spots but the asteroid shapes were predefined since I wanted to control that in order to find the core loop of the game. Now that I have some core loop defined, I can create the shapes considering that.

But one difference now is I wanted to have something visual, consistent (control the seed) and be able to do step by step, so if something goes wrong with the generation, I can adjust the logic and test again and see where it is failing, etc.

Next step is to try to integrate the minerals generation into the shape process and also visualize that better since not having visualization and replication makes procgen super harder.

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Another gameplay video but now with music and sound effects since the last time I forgot xD, just to share a bit more about the game.

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A newer small gameplay video of Ship Miner, the game I am developing. In this case I have installed a super ray that is used to mine faster.

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Prototyping some interactable objects for Ship miner

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Ship Miner gameplay video, work in progress.

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This is how your ship's stats are improved in Ship Miner, it is a work in progress UI but I am already liking it a lot.

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More Ship Miner, just random mining and finding new tech.

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This is the game I am making

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This is Ship Miner, a 1bit pixelart scifi mining game I am developing for steam.