Tycoon Week #9: Mining Tycoon

Mining Tycoon

Creator: Defaultio

Created: 10/22/2008

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About the game: This game is created by Defaultio, same as the creator of Lumberjack Tycoon which was the #10 of the Tycoon Week. Anyways, the game is all about mining. You get a mining area, and explode rock, you collect the rock, and drive it to the refinery to get cleaned, after that you go to the depot and get money.

Scripting: As this is an old game, the scripting was advanced for it's time.This game is 50% scripting, 50% building. The scripts are nice, and cause no lag. As it's a "normal" tycoon with buttons, those require a few scripts, as well as the refinery and depot areas needing to have quite a few scripts in them.

Here is what Defaultio has to say about the game.

"Here's what you should know about the game:
-Use the tool to click on the buttons.
-Use the tool to move the ore.
-Use your truck to move the ore.
-Use your refinery tycoon to refine and increase the value of the ore.
-You do not have to go to the refinery when you have not bought anything there yet because it will do nothing to the value of the ore.
-Use the factory to sell the ore.
-The minecart's intended purpose is to be used to get to the back of your tunnel when it gets too long to walk, so you can hold on buying that until you have a long tunnel. It's fun to drive around though.
-With wise spending, you could probably beat the entire game in only about an hour and a half.
-When another player is closer to your ore than you are, your ore tends to freeze. This means it goes through your truck or lift, so stay at your lift while it's lifting and don't let others hit your truck with ore in it while left unattended.
-Ore is local, which means it is handled by your computer."

Overall: Overall, this is a nice game, a little hard to play as you have to collect the rocks one by one, but it's fun, it does take a while. The scripting is excellent, and the building is too.

Game Rating: 7/10

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