Game Outline

GENERAL INFO:

• ASPECTS OF GAME
  • Spin wheel
    • Each manual spin contributes to spin meter, when full you get random upgrades/cash
    • CONTROLS
      • Possible controls:
      • Mouse drag wheel? (best option imo, although not good for trackpad or mobile?)
      • Holding A/D?
      • Circular mouse motion (Makes most sense but would be painful, would work on all devices though)
  • Resource extraction
  • Oil storage
  • Oil selling
    • Takes a decent amount time to sell so that a lot of storage is important
    • The price fluctuates by demand and is based on different "world events" like a war has caused the price of oil to increase etc
  • Upgrade buying
  • Location buying
• RESOURCES
  • Oil
    • Primary currency, especially early game
    • Sell for money
  • MONEY
    • For upgrades, new rigs, new maps
  • OTHER RARER RESOURCES
    • Natural gas
      • Rarer and more valuable, sold instantly once found
    • Rare minerals
      • Gold, platinum, uranium
      • Late game, very rare, lot of money
• ADDITIONAL THINGS FOUND IN MINING
  • Oil pocket
    • Give lot of oil
  • Buried machinery
    • Provides upgrades for free
  • Fossils
    • Provide cash boost
    • Might not be necessary with other resources

PROBLEMS TO OVERCOME IN GAME

• Drill heat
  • Have to wait to let it cool down, drill isnt functional when overheating
  • Buy cooling to increase time between over heating
  • No manual intervention required to stop overheating, just wait
• Drill bits break
  • Take a while to break
  • Once broken require manual intervention to hold/play minigame to fix
  • Can get upgrades to increase time between breaks
  • Can get workers to fix
• Storage
  • When storage is full, everything stops working
  • Have to sell to get things to work
• Oil pressure
  • Pressure increases while actively spinning the wheel
  • Higher pressure increases oil production and resource discovery rates
  • Pressure slowly decreases when the rig is left idle
  • Low pressure reduces drilling efficiency but does not remove resources already collected
  • Can be upgraded later with better pumps, motors, or pressure systems to slow pressure loss
  • Automated rigs maintain a portion of their pressure automatically

UPGRADES

• Drill power
  • NAMES
    • Cant think of any atm
  • IMPROVES
    • Amount of oil found each spin, amount of rare resources found
• Bits
  • NAMES
    • Rusty bit
    • Steel bit
    • Tungsten bit
    • Diamond bit
  • IMPROVES
    • Time between bits beraking
• Storage
  • NAMES
    • Barrel
    • Tank
    • Yard
    • Farm
    • Reserve
  • IMPROVES
    • Amount of oil you can hold before things stop working
• Drill cooling
  • NAMES
    • Water cooling
    • Liquid nitrogen cooling
  • IMPROVES
    • Time between overheating
• Electric motors
  • NAMES
    • DC motor
    • Industrial motor
    • Diesel engine
    • Turbine drive
  • IMPROVES
    • Automates spinning, first 1-2 motors are slower than manually spinning
• WORKERS
  • NAMES
    • Intern
    • Technician
    • Engineer
    • Senior Engineer
  • IMPROVES
    • Sell oil automatically
    • Automatically fix bits when broken
• MORE RIGS
  • Can be bought and upgraded individually or in mass
  • Each map has a maximum amount of rigs it can fit

PROGRESSION

• Early game
  • One free manual rig
  • Backyard map?
  • Max of 5 rigs on that map
• Mid game
  • Buy more maps (maps stack, so while your working on one map the other maps still make money
• Late game
  • Have multiple maps, a few maxed out maps
  • Can eventually make company public as win condition for massive amount of money?

GRAPHICS AND MOCKUPS

UI WIP concept

MUSIC

Main theme/main menu? https://flat.io/score/6a3744bed5812f4da972798e-main-theme