Your spaceship just crashed on a tiny planet! In this strange world, the day is burning hot and the night is freezing cold. Stay in between to survive, and repair your engine to escape.
The sun will transform objects into other elements, for example, a tree will become coal. Make sure to loop around the planet to gather resources!
Some objects can only be mined with certain pickaxes. Make sure to upgrade your pickaxe by pressing X.
(Can anyone beat the secret hardest mode? Pause on the menu screen...)
This is a WHOLE game. Holy crap! I just beat it. I'm not sure if this is a limitation of PICO-8 or not, but my character was able to walk below the screen, which made for some panicky movements. Other than that- fantastic. The art is uniform, the gameplay is straightforward, it's got the whole loop concept in there with the planet rotating and walking over it again and again. This is one of the best I've played so far! I think your description is killing you- this game would do SO well to have some GIFs in your description, and maybe some formatting.
Just beat the game! Super compelling graphics! The mining part feels just as good as minecraft. Sometimes the collision goes weird, when you are trying to go through a single grid between two entities. It would be better if you could add more items to collect and make the map generation more controlled in the later part of the game. To me, currently I feel like the final upgrading phase is a little bit tedious, and there are amethyst everywhere which makes it super hard to find stone and copper.
One issue I ran into was at one point I only needed one copper to finish something, but it didn't spawn any copper at all for ages, not sure if I just got unlucky or if that's a bug.
This was a great idea. It took me a long time to repair the ship but the push of the day/night cycle made it compelling. A really nice an cohesive experience with art that all went really well together. Some nice music would make the lulls while waiting for the resource you need more enjoyable.
@princesschoochoo I think you got unlucky right here. Just a reminder that to make copper, you need to wait for the elements to burn and turn into other elements. Glad you enjoyed it! :D
I think your description is killing you- this game would do SO well to have some GIFs in your description, and maybe some formatting.