Making mining fun
Posted: Wed Nov 28, 2012 4:47 am
So how do you make mining fun?
We all (Josh included as apparent in Gameplay video #1) have a childish desire to blow asteroids to bits, I think it's in the nature of gaming all the way back since the ancient arcade games!
So why not make this a core mining mechanic?
Mining would be done in 2 steps:
1.) Blow asteroids to small enough bits (using a special beam perferably so they don't fly all over the place, but any kind of weapon could work really)
2.) Vacuum up the useful bits. The none useful bits of rock in smallest size can dissapear after a short while to not impact performace, and bigger bits keep going until they hit something, perhaps they bounce of an asteroid and hit the player ship - ouch!
This would also open up a ton of options when it comes to combat. Hiding inside a dense asteroid field might not be such a good idea after all when the big guns start working on turning it into shrapnell and asteroid parts flying everywhere?
You could even push an asteroid with your ship and use it as a projectile accelerating it towards a space station. Sounds like an interresting mining oppurunity, I bet small bits of space station debris contain much more useful materials to vaccum up then asteroids do!
We all (Josh included as apparent in Gameplay video #1) have a childish desire to blow asteroids to bits, I think it's in the nature of gaming all the way back since the ancient arcade games!
So why not make this a core mining mechanic?
Mining would be done in 2 steps:
1.) Blow asteroids to small enough bits (using a special beam perferably so they don't fly all over the place, but any kind of weapon could work really)
2.) Vacuum up the useful bits. The none useful bits of rock in smallest size can dissapear after a short while to not impact performace, and bigger bits keep going until they hit something, perhaps they bounce of an asteroid and hit the player ship - ouch!
This would also open up a ton of options when it comes to combat. Hiding inside a dense asteroid field might not be such a good idea after all when the big guns start working on turning it into shrapnell and asteroid parts flying everywhere?
You could even push an asteroid with your ship and use it as a projectile accelerating it towards a space station. Sounds like an interresting mining oppurunity, I bet small bits of space station debris contain much more useful materials to vaccum up then asteroids do!