Mine Your Business

A Game created for Sofia Game Jam 2023. The theme was: "The Dilemma of Unrestrained AI"

In this game you are a Gold Mine Manager in a distant future where AI is more advanced, you strive to amass as much gold as possible, as quickly as possible, due to your greed. To achieve this, you can build robots and then install additional firmware (for an increasing price) so they can evolve and come up with ways to mine more gold faster. The higher the Evolved Level, the greater the chance for a robot to gain 1 SENTIENCE Point whenever it returns gold to the container. Once a robot reaches 4 SENTIENTCE Points, it becomes sentient. Sentient robots develop feelings and become enraged because they now understand that what they do is pointless to them. Sentient Robots will directly go and target the container, causing damage at the rate of 5 HP per second. Players can spawn Fixer Robots which repair the Gold Container and Annihilator Robots which Nuke the Sentient Robots. The message of the game is that humanity needs to be careful when using Advanced AI and not use it because of our greed but because we want to make the Planet a better place!

CREDITS:

Stefan Vasilev - Gameplay/UI Programmer, Game Design, Animation, VFX

Ivana Gigova - UI Design, 3D Designer (Character and Environment)

Sound Ninja Academy - SFX, Score