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Ariel Coppes 🚀 PLAY Ship Miner DEMO NOW 🚀

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Indie Game Dev making ✨Ship Miner✨(on Steam Now!!) a 1bit pixelart mining game 🎮 Previously senior engineer at Ironhide Game Studio https://store.steampowered.com/app/3113690/Ship_Miner/ https://arielcoppes.dev - Devlog

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Ariel Coppes 🚀 PLAY Ship Miner DEMO NOW 🚀 @arielsan.bsky.social · Jun 13

This is Ship Miner, a twin stick 1-bit PixelArt mining game I am developing mainly for Steam and Steam Deck (for now).

It is a retro modern game, a tribute to the games I played as kid and what I imagined while playing.

Add it to your Steam Wishlist if you like it.

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Ariel Coppes 🚀 PLAY Ship Miner DEMO NOW 🚀 @arielsan.bsky.social · 12d

Ship Miner is a relaxing mining experience with combat elements and 1-bit pixel art aesthetics.

Collect minerals from procedural generated asteroids and improve your ship.

Demo available on Steam right now!

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Ariel Coppes 🚀 PLAY Ship Miner DEMO NOW 🚀 @arielsan.bsky.social · 17d

Captain Lucky Pixel and his crew got trapped in the Unfortunate Galaxy! Help them explore the galaxy and escape it in our FTL-like adventure named Faster Than Luck!

This is our entry for the GameBoy Game Jam #GBJAM13

PLAY IT HERE:

arielsan.itch.io/gbjam13

Faster Than Luck by arielsan, Esti

Escape the Unfortunate Galaxy in a FTL-like adventure where bad luck is one step behind.

arielsan.itch.io

Ariel Coppes 🚀 PLAY Ship Miner DEMO NOW 🚀 @arielsan.bsky.social · 19d

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Ariel Coppes 🚀 PLAY Ship Miner DEMO NOW 🚀 @arielsan.bsky.social · 20d

My plan is to add mouse support at some point but wanted to focus on a good gamepad experience first and don't want mouse to complicate decisions for now.

Ariel Coppes 🚀 PLAY Ship Miner DEMO NOW 🚀 @arielsan.bsky.social · 20d

Available to play on itch too arielsan.itch.io/shipminer

Ship Miner by arielsan

Explore procedural generated asteroids and collect minerals, survive threats and improve your ship.

arielsan.itch.io

Ariel Coppes 🚀 PLAY Ship Miner DEMO NOW 🚀 @arielsan.bsky.social · 20d

store.steampowered.com/app/3113690/...

Ship Miner on Steam

1-bit Pixel Art twin stick miner game in space. Explore procedural generated asteroids and collect minerals, survive threats and improve your ship. Face a magnificent danger and save the galaxy.

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Ariel Coppes 🚀 PLAY Ship Miner DEMO NOW 🚀 @arielsan.bsky.social · 20d

I've just released the Demo of Ship Miner! Weeeee!!!🍻

Ship Miner is a relaxing mining game with some elements of combat. Explore procedural generated asteroids to collect minerals, survive threats and improve your ship.

Play the Demo Now on Steam! 🚀

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Ariel Coppes 🚀 PLAY Ship Miner DEMO NOW 🚀 @arielsan.bsky.social · 21d

Mockups for our GameBoy Jam game, the theme is Unlucky and our idea is to make a FTL inspired game (we casually named it Faster Than Luck) where you have to escape a bad luck galaxy by solving events and saving enough luckies for the space jump.

Ariel Coppes 🚀 PLAY Ship Miner DEMO NOW 🚀 @arielsan.bsky.social · 27d

Here is the Steam link, you can join Discord too from there.

store.steampowered.com/app/3113690/...

Ship Miner on Steam

1-bit Pixel Art twin stick miner game in space. Explore procedural generated asteroids and collect minerals, survive threats and improve your ship. Face a magnificent danger and save the galaxy.

store.steampowered.com

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Ariel Coppes 🚀 PLAY Ship Miner DEMO NOW 🚀 @arielsan.bsky.social · 27d

This is Ship Miner, a relaxing mining game with retro aesthetics and modern controls. Explore and collect minerals, improve your ship and survive some threats.

Add to your Wishlist now on Steam and/or join the private Playtest!

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Ariel Coppes 🚀 PLAY Ship Miner DEMO NOW 🚀 @arielsan.bsky.social · Aug 29

Add to your Wishlist or Join the private Playtest on Steam:
store.steampowered.com/app/3113690/...

Ship Miner on Steam

1-bit Pixel Art twin stick miner game in space. Explore procedural generated asteroids and collect minerals, survive threats and improve your ship. Face a magnificent danger and save the galaxy.

store.steampowered.com

Ariel Coppes 🚀 PLAY Ship Miner DEMO NOW 🚀 @arielsan.bsky.social · Aug 29

Ship Miner is a relaxing mining game where you can buy powerful 💥 tech to simplify your task and make it more fun too. I call this one: the ball of destruction 😆

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Ariel Coppes 🚀 PLAY Ship Miner DEMO NOW 🚀 @arielsan.bsky.social · Aug 22

And this is how fast travel to other asteroids was invented in Ship Miner.

Ariel Coppes 🚀 PLAY Ship Miner DEMO NOW 🚀 @arielsan.bsky.social · Aug 22

And this is how I ended up making a Pinball game ....

Ship Miner is a relaxing mining retro game with some combat (and some bugs too, for now).

Wishlist or Join the Playtest on Steam :)

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Ariel Coppes 🚀 PLAY Ship Miner DEMO NOW 🚀 @arielsan.bsky.social · Aug 15

Just a reminder that I have a private Playtest on Steam page if you want to join:

store.steampowered.com/app/3113690/Ship_Miner

I will be activating more and more players each week.

You can also join Discord (link in steam page) and I will send you a playtest key directly.

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Ariel Coppes 🚀 PLAY Ship Miner DEMO NOW 🚀 @arielsan.bsky.social · Aug 1

And here the Steam link

store.steampowered.com/app/3113690/...

Ship Miner on Steam

1-bit Pixel Art twin stick miner game in space. Explore procedural generated asteroids and collect minerals, survive threats and improve your ship. Face a magnificent danger and save the galaxy.

store.steampowered.com

Ariel Coppes 🚀 PLAY Ship Miner DEMO NOW 🚀 @arielsan.bsky.social · Aug 1

This is Ship Miner, a Twin Stick 1-bit Pixel Art Mining Game I am developing for Steam. It has some retro vibes with modern mechanics.

Add it to your Wishlist and/or Join the Private Playtest and/or Join the Discord (check the steam page)

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Ariel Coppes 🚀 PLAY Ship Miner DEMO NOW 🚀 @arielsan.bsky.social · Jul 19

Join the Playtest and Wishlist the game here
store.steampowered.com/app/3113690/...

You could also join the Discord and ask for a key directly if you want, more info at shipminer.arielcoppes.dev

Ship Miner on Steam

1-bit Pixel Art twin stick miner game in space. Explore procedural generated asteroids and collect minerals, survive threats and improve your ship. Face a magnificent danger and save the galaxy.

store.steampowered.com

Ariel Coppes 🚀 PLAY Ship Miner DEMO NOW 🚀 @arielsan.bsky.social · Jul 19

My game has a Steam private Playtest now!!

Ship Miner is a sci-fi twin stick 1bit pixel art mining game.

Explore, gather minerals, upgrade and survive!

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Ariel Coppes 🚀 PLAY Ship Miner DEMO NOW 🚀 @arielsan.bsky.social · Jul 12

Or if you just want to add to your wishlist, here is the Steam link:
store.steampowered.com/app/3113690/...

Ship Miner on Steam

1-bit Pixel Art twin stick miner game in space. Explore procedural generated asteroids and collect minerals, survive threats and improve your ship. Face a magnificent danger and save the galaxy.

store.steampowered.com

Ariel Coppes 🚀 PLAY Ship Miner DEMO NOW 🚀 @arielsan.bsky.social · Jul 12

This is Ship Miner, a twin stick 1-bit PixelArt mining game I am developing for Steam.

I am working on a having a private Playtest before having the public Demo, subscribe to the Newsletter or join Discord at shipminer.arielcoppes.dev to be notified.

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Ariel Coppes 🚀 PLAY Ship Miner DEMO NOW 🚀 @arielsan.bsky.social · Jul 4

Steam link just in case: store.steampowered.com/app/3113690/...

Ship Miner on Steam

1-bit Pixel Art twin stick miner game in space. Explore procedural generated asteroids and collect minerals, survive threats and improve your ship. Face a magnificent danger and save the galaxy.

store.steampowered.com

Ariel Coppes 🚀 PLAY Ship Miner DEMO NOW 🚀 @arielsan.bsky.social · Jul 4

This is Ship Miner 🚀, a twin stick retro 1-bit pixel art mining game.

Multiple people requested color palettes and I decided to experiment, here is a video.

One Discord member said: "how the heck this game is able to look good in every color?" 🫶

Add to your Steam Wishlist!

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Ariel Coppes 🚀 PLAY Ship Miner DEMO NOW 🚀 @arielsan.bsky.social · Jun 27

I believe video compression destroyed a bit the video when using the 1x scale in the game, here is a better example of how it looks.