Crystal Miner

💎 Crystal Miner

Crystal Miner is a cozy little mining game made for Mini Jam 220: Crystal.

Explore the cave, mine mysterious crystals and bring them back to your analyzer. Each unidentified crystal hides one of five different crystal types — but identifying them requires good timing!

Analyze your finds, collect the crystals you need and complete orders to earn coins.

And maybe explore the cave a little... you might find something hidden. 👀

⛏️ How to Play

Mine rocks to find Unidentified Crystals.

Bring them to the analyzer, put them on the analyzercloth and use the timing minigame to reveal what kind of crystal you found.

Collect the crystals requested on the order sheet and ship completed orders to earn coins!

There are five crystal types to discover:

💎 Ruby 💎 Sapphire 💎 Emerald 💎 Amethyst 💎 Topaz

🎮 Controls

  WASD — Move
  SPACE — Mine / Analyze
  E — Interact 
  ENTER — Ship Order (Book)

⏱️ Mini Jam 220

Theme: Crystal Limitation: Timing is Everything

The limitation is used in the crystal analyzer: successfully identifying a crystal requires you to stop the moving marker at the right time.

❤️ About

This was our first game jam project together and our first game that we have taken all the way from an idea to a finished, playable release.

The game was made over the course of the jam.

Sleepy created the original pixel art for the game and learned pixel art during the jam itself, including the player character, animations, environment pieces and decorations.

We hope you enjoy our tiny crystal-mining adventure! 💎⛏️

🎨 Credits

Programming MsTrash

Game Design MsTrash & Sleepy

Original Pixel Art Sleepy

Additional Art Assets Malkas — 16×16 Pixel Art Mining & Ore Asset Pack FLAME — Free Crystal Pack

Music tinytunatunes — Lil Village

Sound Effects Kenney