The presentation here is amazing, I'm already having lots of fun in the tutorial. The graphics are the most appealing type of old school pixel art IMO. Everything is snappy, the sounds are nice, the dialogue/exposition is perfect, being funny and not overstaying its welcome - That part reminds me of Advance Wars for some reason. I'm at work so I'm going to stop playing but I may pick this back up when I get home :)
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Thanks for the super nice feedback! Really glad you've had some fun with this thing. While progress has sorta stalled due to many things going on elsewhere, there's an updated free version of this available on Steam under the name ASTRALODE Freeminers. It has a more fleshed out set of tutorial stages with an actual overarching objective of sorts, that being to earn your Captain certification by clearing a variety of performance-related goals. Also, you have a pretty big selection of fancy rare ores to collect that appear at random. Anyhow, might be worth taking a peek at it if you'd like to see this project a little further along :) https://store.steampowered.com/app/1273010/ASTRALODE_Freeminers/
Happy to hear you've grabbed it! I've been seriously procrastinating on pushing a big update, one notable thing is a significant mechanic change in that you can now hit ore directly with bombs to upgrade it rather than having to be super cautious. Far harder to make unfun mistakes this way. And ah jeez, the soundtrack, I meant to put that out ages ago! Glad you're digging that spacey tune, 5/4 is a superior time sig :D