Just released: Chiron Mining Company 1.0!

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Just released: Chiron Mining Company 1.0!

guitarmike

I've just released version 1.0 of a project I've been working on on and off for several years now. It's an asteroids knock-off but with many, many additional features. I hope you'll give it a try and I am eager to hear your feedback on how I can get better. Thanks

Chiron Mining Co.

Erich_L

I tried it out and encourage others to try it out too- it's pretty fun. It's more fun than Eve Online.
Audio - great work!
UI - Also great
Art and effects - decent
Also well done- the player can really feel like they're moving through space. But on the other hand it's a little difficult to keep track of which direction the ship is looking in. Perhaps a cone light that can hit asteroids from the ship would help?
Bullets: you set the parameters for the main weapon just right! I am confused why they don't have a starting velocity in relation to ship velocity tho.
Ship upgrades: great idea and the prices are set nice and challenging- tho the hull armor I bought seems to do nothing at all.
Gameplay:
This kind of game is all about maneuvering in a zero-g environment. I am confused why you allow some asteroids to move nearly at the speed of light (it's just kind of silly). If it were me, instead of super fast roids I'd just add more asteroids.
Also, while it's true and impressive that you have many many additional features, I didn't find any of them to be extremely unique- which isn't a big deal really.
Ideas of my own:
Own the mining trawler as well instead of just the fighter.
Buy drones that can collect the ores that pop out for you so you can focus on spinning around causing carnage.
Drop the map boundaries. These shouldn't be necessary.
I'd rate the game 9/10. Thanks for sharing!

JusTiCe8

It's a nice game, hard and frustrating sometimes 🙂 thanks for sharing it for free.
Here are some possible improvements:

"return to ship" objective : we didn't even get out from it first ! Game may start there from going outside the mothership,
explosions could be better (asteroids split looks weird, specially in your own video),
sounds volume cannot be defined
thrust upgrade not displayed on diagram
thrust made no sound 🙁
UI cannot be used with keyboard
maybe a velocity meter, just for fun, could be useful
I get the bad luck to get spawn very close to a big asteroid, a "safe spawn radius" may be nice (if not get out the ship as point one)

Finally, is there any save/load feature ? Doesn't look so, it would be great to add one (file or code to type like old games)