Space Mine

Sometimes you have big ambitions for a project, then life kicks you in the balls and tells you 'no'. This is more of a proof-of-concept and demo than an actual game at this point. Hoping one day to have the time to come back and do this proper justice.

Welcome to Space Mine!
Operate as a freelance miner searching for rare minerals and resources in the asteroid fields around the galaxy!

Using your laser (not working yet) By ramming into asteroids with your ship, you can find useful resources like iron, gold, and diamonds to collect and transport back to different planets around the solar system to sell for profit to purchase ship upgrades, fix your shields, refuel, and maybe even save up for a snazzier ship!

Currently only exploration and resource collection is working at this state. Shield damage animations happen when you run into asteroids, however they do not actively damage the ship yet. Flying over a planet will slow you down to dock on it, but the actual docking and buy/sell functions have not been implemented. You can press space to hear a laser sound effect, but no laser ever fires. (Where my lasers at?)

This game uses VGA Mode-Q; a modified version of Screen 13h that runs at a resolution of 256x256 with 256 colors. I chose this as a challenge to myself to try something different, and it made for some nifty assembly optimizations in the screen rendering code.

This is a game for MS-DOS. To run this on Windows, Linux or Mac you will require an emulator such as DOSBox or PCEm.

Controls
Up Arrow: Activate Boosters
Left/Right: Rotate Ship
Space: Fire laser (sound only)
+/-: Select booster strength

Minimum Requirements (tested in PCEm):
CPU: 386SX @ 33MHz
RAM: ~100KB base memory free
Video: 16-bit VGA compatible card
OS: MS-DOS 2 or later

Recommended Requirements:
CPU: 486SX @ 33MHz or faster
Video: VLB or PCI-based VGA compatible card
Sound: Adlib-compatible card

Credits:
Programming by Graham Downey
Graphics and art by Ali Stansfield and Graham Downey