Cave Driller - Procedural mining game

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Mazin
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Cave Driller - Procedural mining game

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Hello! This is not only my first finished nes project, it's my first finished game in general.

I've been working on it since 5 months ago. It was made in nesasm3 and uses the Famistudio sound engine.

In this game you control a mining robot exploring a misterious cave in hopes of finding the source of a powerful newly discovered substance. To face the dangers of the cave, you will need to gather resources to craft weapons and various useful items.

Features:
- Randomly generated levels
- 10 usable items, 18 crafting recipes
- Recipe book to keep track of what you know how to make
- 3 bosses
- Password system to save your upgrades for future runs
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The game is complete. This was suposed to be a really small game, but I fell prey to feature creep :lol: and now it uses the full 40kb.
Anyway, here is the game
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Re: Cave Driller - Procedural mining game

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I love procedural generated stuff, can't wait to try it out. Does it have roguelile design where you lose everything on death?
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Re: Cave Driller - Procedural mining game

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It does have a roguelite design. You lose all of your items on death, but you keep your recipes, upgrades and some other stuff related to progression.
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Re: Cave Driller - Procedural mining game

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Stuck on this screen, tried 2 different playthroughs, I assume this is before the 2nd boss? I can't dig the harder rock and sand it seems. What do I need to upgrade?
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Re: Cave Driller - Procedural mining game

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That screen is in fact the boss. You need to shoot or burn the yellow blocks to do damage to it. There's more of that rock after that, but you can break it with any crafted drill then.
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Re: Cave Driller - Procedural mining game

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The game has been updated. Added a proper password screen, numbers indicating materials left during crafting, and a cheat password!

Some crazy bugs involving crafting have been fixed too.
And if i'm not mistaken the game was actually unbeatable before due to another bug, yikes.
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