Star Tech: Deep Space Mine
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A puzzle-builder, where you build up a multi-ring mining rig around a highly valuable dark crystal to harvest its power and precious minerals.
The game isn't super intuitive, so we highly recommend this < 2 minute explanation to help you enjoy the game.
https://youtu.be/aWmnVS27LjM
- POWER (Red) Buildings: harvest power from the crystal.
- PRODUCTION (Blue) Buildings: harvest precious gems from the crystal.
- POPULATION (Green) Buildings: provides population for your mining rig.
- SPECIAL (Grey) Buildings: unlockable buildings that provide special bonuses.
- WORKER (White) Cards: harvest additional resources from buildings.
- If your POWER (Red) reaches 0, it's game over.
- GEMS (Blue) are used to unlock new buildings and upgrade your rig.
- POPULATION (Green) allows you to play worker cards.
- Bonus resources are awarded for longer chains of buildings.
- Be aware of WALLS that are on the edges of some buildings, as they will block chaining.
- Workers can harvest resources from buildings, regardless of if the buildings are chained.
- The CRYSTAL grows unstable, and shoots out FLARES periodically which will destroy tiles.
- Earn enough GEMS to unlock new buildings and additional rings for the mining rig.
[Lightning Rods protect tiles from getting destroyed by periodic Crystal Flares]
[Earn new cards and expand your rig as you hit your production target]
[...and don't run out of power!]
To harvest the Crystal, harvesting structures have to be built in clusters on the rig. The larger the chain of structures, the more resources those structures can harvest. Additionally, specialist workers can be employed to manually harvest materials from structures, useful for harvesting resources from isolated, non-clustered structures. Harvesting precious minerals allows the mining rig to be extended with additional rings.
However, maintaining chains of structures is an on-going challenge. The rings of the mining rig rotate periodically, altering the layout of the mining rig. Structures need replacing periodically, and buildings cost a variety of resources.
- Fixed attachment issue (relative instead of world) that misaligned the rings when you get new rings if you had rotated the camera using the mouse wheel
- Fixed text on card tooltip that wasn't displaying correctly due to font
- Fixed Options menu in game, as was previously soft-locking the game
The game isn't super intuitive, so we highly recommend this < 2 minute explanation to help you enjoy the game.
https://youtu.be/aWmnVS27LjM
How to play
Buildings and Workers
Place buildings and workers on your mining rig.- POWER (Red) Buildings: harvest power from the crystal.
- PRODUCTION (Blue) Buildings: harvest precious gems from the crystal.
- POPULATION (Green) Buildings: provides population for your mining rig.
- SPECIAL (Grey) Buildings: unlockable buildings that provide special bonuses.
- WORKER (White) Cards: harvest additional resources from buildings.
Resources
Resources are needed to fuel the mining rig and build new buildings.- If your POWER (Red) reaches 0, it's game over.
- GEMS (Blue) are used to unlock new buildings and upgrade your rig.
- POPULATION (Green) allows you to play worker cards.
Chaining
- Place buildings ADJACENT to each other for them to harvest the crystal's resources or gain population.- Bonus resources are awarded for longer chains of buildings.
- Be aware of WALLS that are on the edges of some buildings, as they will block chaining.
- Workers can harvest resources from buildings, regardless of if the buildings are chained.
The Mining Rig
- The RINGS of the mining rig rotate periodically, track their next rotation on the UI top left.- The CRYSTAL grows unstable, and shoots out FLARES periodically which will destroy tiles.
- Earn enough GEMS to unlock new buildings and additional rings for the mining rig.
[Lightning Rods protect tiles from getting destroyed by periodic Crystal Flares]
[Earn new cards and expand your rig as you hit your production target]
[...and don't run out of power!]
Full-Description
Using Star Tech’s patented Deep Space Mining technology, a series of interlocking rings are constructed to form the mining rig around Cosmic Crystals. By constructing structures on the various rings of the mining rig, power and precious materials can be harvested from the highly valuable Crystals.To harvest the Crystal, harvesting structures have to be built in clusters on the rig. The larger the chain of structures, the more resources those structures can harvest. Additionally, specialist workers can be employed to manually harvest materials from structures, useful for harvesting resources from isolated, non-clustered structures. Harvesting precious minerals allows the mining rig to be extended with additional rings.
However, maintaining chains of structures is an on-going challenge. The rings of the mining rig rotate periodically, altering the layout of the mining rig. Structures need replacing periodically, and buildings cost a variety of resources.
Critical Bug Fixes:
- Updated Unreal Engine pre-requisites to be included in the build- Fixed attachment issue (relative instead of world) that misaligned the rings when you get new rings if you had rotated the camera using the mouse wheel
- Fixed text on card tooltip that wasn't displaying correctly due to font
- Fixed Options menu in game, as was previously soft-locking the game