https://a-tom-games.itch.io/minestorm-pico Tread lightly! The transport lanes of intergalactic space have been seeded with mines from an alien vessel.
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Floating Mines
These are "dumb" mines which simply drift through space. |
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Fireball Mines
These mines hurl a fireball at you as soon as you hit them. You can avoid the fireball or destroy it with a rocket. |
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Magnetic Mines
These mines will follow you anywhere in the galaxy you go. |
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Magnetic-Fireball Mines
These mines have the traits of both Magnetic and Fireball Mines. |
Field Types
When a medium-sized mine is destroyed, 2 small mines are activated. The first field has 4 floating mines. Each new field starts with harder combinations of mines.
Will you discover the types of mines in Field 30?
Number of Ships
Scoring
Type of Mine | Large | Medium | Small |
Floating | 100 | 135 | 200 |
Fireball | 325 | 360 | 425 |
Magnetic | 500 | 535 | 600 |
Magnetic-Fireball | 750 | 785 | 850 |
Final Words
Good luck with your mission, you will need it. It's not an easy task!
Mine field 1 is cleared by many new recruits with "ease".
Mine field 2 is very tough, until you learn to keep your distance and always fire straight lines at fireball mines.
Mine field 3 seems to be a "piece of cake" compared to the previous if you have mastered the art of thrust.
Mine field 4 . . . the end for many aspiring pilots. Once passed, you have mastered to eliminate all mine types.
Now it's up to you!
Developer Notes
There were made some changes and additions in the design of the game to make it more playable on the Pico-8 platform.
Changes and additions:
- The scale of all game objects have been adjusted to suit the smaller screen size better.
- The movement physics have been adjusted to suit the smaller screen size better.
- Single player only
- Two levels of difficulty
- Autofire (default) is a feature in the options menu.
- A bonus ship is awarded every 3 fields instead of every 4.
- 30 mine fields, instead of 13.
- Space dust is not included.
- The ships mysterious Escape feature is much safer to use than in the original.
- The overlay HUD shows the current mine field number in the bottom left corner.
- The overlay HUD is dynamic and parts are being turned on and off during game play.
- A victory screen is awarded after clearing all 30 mine fields.
- Persistent High Score and Control settings.
Pico-8 Cartridge
Cartridge available at the Lexaloffle BBS.
Trivia
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The design of this page is based on the original box design of Vectrex cartridges:
- The game instructions are taken from the original MineStorm manual and edited where changes applied.
- Screenshots may differ slightly from the release version.