Mine Cards

by rose
Overall★★★★★★★★★★4.06
Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.94
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★4.26
Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.67
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★4.06
Mine Cards is an idle deckbuilding game. Gather resources and buy cards to improve your deck and reach level 100 of the mine!

#### Tips:
- Buy the Old Pickaxe to start mining resources.
- When you draw an Upgrade card, it will automatically improve the top card in your discard pile (e.g. 1 Stone -> 2 Stone.)
- Be sure to buy some Dynamite so you can use the Remove Card option to slim down your deck.
- It starts a little slow, but hang in there and buy high-level resources when you can!

Note: There is no audio or music.

Comments36

Luc-creationallabs
Luc-creationallabs26 Apr 2021, 03:51
Wow, deck builder + idle, you are messing with heavy stuff here, this combination is possibly more addictive than crack. I'll play more of this later, I like what I saw, cool submission :)
Dudelesha
Dudelesha26 Apr 2021, 05:38
It incredibly. So beautiful and amazing.
PixelPortalz
PixelPortalz26 Apr 2021, 05:54
I had to finish it. It's compulsive!! LOVE IT!!
pedrohph
pedrohph26 Apr 2021, 05:59
Deck builder + idle? Amazing :smile:

At the beginning I picked up a lot of free stones, then I wonder "Why do I have so many useless cards?" hahaha
"Time to buy dinamits".

Nice game :smile:
jk5000
jk500026 Apr 2021, 06:12
I overall liked the idea, and the visuals is pretty good. I wish there was a way too loose, but else a fun little game. Well done.
TheseusInABottle
TheseusInABottle26 Apr 2021, 06:20
Always nice to play a little idle game after a long hard day of jamming. The lack of music on the one hand is a bit of a downer because who doesn't love some good idle Muzak to relax to. On the other hand it does mean I get to play whatever I want instead so that's nice. All in all this games a nice little idle game.
msipp27
msipp2726 Apr 2021, 17:08
hilarous when the cards start going off screen
recursor
recursor26 Apr 2021, 17:53
The cards look great and move great too. I was enjoying watching them flip over as well as getting access to other types of resource for the 1st time. Kudos for a very fun and engaging game!
AWildEkans26 Apr 2021, 18:16
The beginning is a little slow but i finished it and it was a really fun play. Awesome job!
LDJam user 23641626 Apr 2021, 18:29
I liked the game. However player initially has Stairs card in their deck. So it's possible just wait and go to level 100 literally doing nothing.
Chiller26 Apr 2021, 18:57
So far this is the only game I have played that I will play after rating. I'm a sucker for idle games.
Norris Eldridge27 Apr 2021, 00:22
Awesome game! Just say here and played for a good 30+ minutes at least. Some music / sound effects would have been nice but what's here is super polished and well put together. Good work!
T C
T C27 Apr 2021, 01:24
Very cool! Loved the idle and deckbuilder combo. Very straightforward deckbuilder but very fun nonetheless! This is a great idea.
poddlesli27 Apr 2021, 03:27
clever mechanic and idea, felt a bit slow at first but it picks up quickly!
cacciatc
cacciatc27 Apr 2021, 03:51
Slick animations and overall a cool feel. Nice work.
Pseudohausen
Pseudohausen27 Apr 2021, 04:33
This is a fantastic combo! Awesome work.
gamefive
gamefive27 Apr 2021, 05:47
Deckbuilding + idle game combined. It was fresh. It was fun.
LDJam user 127637
LDJam user 12763727 Apr 2021, 09:50
Amazing entry with original concept, I just spent 20 minutes on it totally focus! Really good job :v:
deadmanjw27 Apr 2021, 10:47
This is a good card game, like how you can build the deck you can really get some good stacks going. Card flipping and stacking animations work well apart from stack can cover up the right 2 resource cards.
mike0912327 Apr 2021, 16:05
Great look to the game, also animations were smooth, making it fun to click the buttons. The game would vastly improve with same music and SFX though.
appix
appix27 Apr 2021, 16:37
A very interesting card game! Add a timer to it!
GibsS
GibsS27 Apr 2021, 16:44
I never saw this type of idle game, quite a good time killer! Also the presentation is very polished. Good job.
TheGamerASD
TheGamerASD27 Apr 2021, 22:06
Great game and I liked the idea of it! Nice work!
Argon
Argon28 Apr 2021, 16:49
So satisfying, very nice game ! Just wish there was some kind of challenge or some more upgrade to buy
doubleday29 Apr 2021, 12:41
Nice little game, lots of options to explore if you wanted to take it further but it works just fine as is.
Havok0629 Apr 2021, 17:59
Very interesting game. I had fun playing it and getting to the end. The last step was going very fast and it was very satisfying to see the level counter go up and up.
Also the production of the game is very nice, everything works properly and the graphics are cute.
fae.exe29 Apr 2021, 19:55
Very cute game! Really like the mechanical genre mash-up idea. Very solid, esp for a compo!!

I think there are pretty clear dominant strategies, but it felt pretty good to just pack a few upgrades, and snowball into a very tight deck filled with stairs to get a nice final sprint in just a few seconds to the hundredth floor.

Good execution, very nice use of the playing card pattern to give it a good visibility, of the very cute iconography, with nice distinct forms and colors; good use of the collective imaginary landscape by appealing to all the tropes established by mining games (esp minecraft). A nice way to explore the experience of "mining deeper and deeper" in card form, really appreciate the innovation.

Cute upgrade mechanic, and it's also cute that the cost of removal decreases with deck size. Very clear layout of the cards and costs that has the game basically teaching itself, I loved that! It made the experience super effortless and smooth, great work! Thank you for the game, keep designing!
vanLeiden
vanLeiden30 Apr 2021, 10:20
Really cool game! I wish it was longer, there could have been at least twice as many levels. I like how you can just ramp up the Stair-cards towards the end. Really satisfying! Very solid entry, I would love to play a longer version of this. :)
zenbarista30 Apr 2021, 14:51
I really enjoyed this game, a nice spin on deck building!
OrdiNeu
OrdiNeu30 Apr 2021, 17:41
This game was really neat! The upgrade card is easily the MVP of this game and kept it interesting -- trying to balance out the right number of upgrade cards definitely kept me thinking. The blend of genres was pretty unique too!
chrissx21 May 2021, 03:01
Even tho there's no challenge to the game, this little loop where everything goes faster over time was quite engaging!
saoi-games
saoi-games1 May 2021, 06:28
I"m not sure if I'm playing the game "right" but I really like it. At first I was thinking it would be like Dominion but realized that you can just add a whole bunch of the free cards to get many resources in the early levels and once you get solid in the blue bars you can start focusing on upgrading cards.

For being an idle game I was really engaged in watching the resource tick up and wanting to purchase new things for my deck. In that way it was more like cookie clicker, where the player stays on the page engaged and then has fun with the crazy upgrades you can do.

This is really well done, especially for a weekend game.

I also really appreciate how you control the pace of the game with the purchase of the "better" pickaxe when the player is in a new currency bracket.

Thank you for making and sharing your game.
Mololo
Mololo1 May 2021, 14:48
Great game, I really love the style, I had so much fun playing.

I’m not sure but I don't think the free stone helps at all, the cards are cycling so more +1 cards does not increase the number of stones you get. Maybe you wanted the player to figure this out.

Either way awesome game, Very relaxing, good job.
bereg
bereg2 May 2021, 13:47
The idle is not my type of game, but this one catched me and I had to play till the victory. It's an interesting and addictive concept. Sure it can use some more balancing and polishing, but overall it's already playable and enjoyable.
exilegl
exilegl5 May 2021, 14:59
Unique take on idle games - I like it. The art and animations are pretty nice too, and the progression system is well thought out. I spammed myself way too many of the free 1 stone cards at the start before I fully understood the game, but thats my fault :P

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