arielsan

Just sharing some gifs of the day.

I was recording gifs to have for presskit/etc, and decided to share them because they look interesting.

If you don't know, Ship Miner is an action roguelike game about mining asteroids. It has a steam page in case in case you want to add to your wishlist.

It's been a while since I do a semi technical blog post but here I am, sharing my second part of the "how I use ECS in my games" series (in 2.5y I will write the 3rd part xD):

If you are using ECS, would love to hear your thoughts.

Every year I take some time to write a review about it and my expectations for the next one personally and for my projects. I mention both Cleared Hot and Ship Miner in my review, here it is if you want to read it:

Hey, I did this game with a friend for a gamejam, it is called Faster Than Luck and it was made for the GBJAM13, the theme for this year was "Unlucky".

The game is some kind of Faster Than Light were you have to manage different resources, including luckies, to escape from the Unfortunate galaxy... or return to it, forever....

Here is the link to play it:

This is Ship Miner, a twin stick 1-bit PixelArt mining game I am developing for Steam. I am working on a having a private Playtest before having the public Demo, subscribe to the Newsletter or join Discord.

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I wrote a blog post about how I am doing the marketing of Ship Miner and what I learned the last year of working on that.

Last week I started playing a bit with generating the asteroids shapes for Ship Miner with a bit of procgen and it is super fun and rewarding.

I was already doing procgen for the minerals spots but the asteroid shapes were predefined since I wanted to control that in order to find the core loop of the game. Now that I have some core loop defined, I can create the shapes considering that.

But one difference now is I wanted to have something visual, consistent (control the seed) and be able to do step by step, so if something goes wrong with the generation, I can adjust the logic and test again and see where it is failing, etc.