MoneyMiner

The game is similar to other idle/clicker games, in that you start out clicking to mine materials, which gets you enough money to buy miners, which mine materials, which let you buy more miners, then upgrades, then more miners, (almost) ad infinitum!

The game also features an unlock system, where as you buy enough of each item to reach predetermined thresholds (quantity of 10, 25, 100, etc) their money return gets multiplied! Each one supports this separately, and global unlocks apply as well once all miners reach certain amounts. There is a button for purchase amount, which has a 'Next' option to auto-calculate purchasing to the next unlock.

There's also a prestige system in place. As you earn enough money, you'll see the button at the bottom right start flashing green, meaning it's worthwhile to take your new prestige points and restart (it does this when prestige points will be doubled afterwards).  Prestige points provide a set percentage bonus each (additively), and upgrades exist to increase this bonus per prestige point. The bonus applies to the amount you make by 'click-mining' as well.

If you prefer to see the money each type of miner is making you per second, instead of the total they make each time they complete a cycle, just click on the box right above the buy button of any upgrade, and they all will change their display. To change it back, just click one of them again.

There are tooltips throughout that explain things as well. Upgrades will tell you what the multipliers are and what miner type they apply to with a tooltip. The buy buttons for items will tell you how much more cash you will make from this miner if you buy this amount of miners (not counting multipliers from unlocks, yet...). I'm always open to hear ways I can add to or improve this system as well.

I've added a lot of visual touches and also made some rather fundamental adjustments (and some flat out rewrites of sections) since first releasing this, and I'm quite thrilled with the progress of it. The game is written and built entirely in C#, using winForms (I know it's outdated, but it holds a sweet spot for me) in vs2022. In the future I might move it over to a different system that can be more cross-platform, but at the moment primary development is for Windows. 

The game now autosaves if you enable it first in the settings menu, at a customizable interval. You can save and load from other locations if you like, but keep in mind that the default location checked upon opening the game is the game directory.

The upgrade system now supports XML reading! At startup, the game generates an upgrades file at '\Resources\Xml\Upgrades.xml'. This file contains the default upgrades I've put into the game. If you change the upgrades (or add new ones) in that file, they will be loaded in the next time you start up the game. If an upgrade has already been purchased however, the only change you can make from that file to it is it's description.

The game also has log files now, and generates them each time it runs. This allows for easier tracking of issues for myself, primarily. If you run into a problem, reach out to me with the latest log file and I should be able to better help.

I've put a ton of effort and work into this game, and have learned a ton along the way. I hope to be able to continue doing this, and grow into a more capable developer along the way. More to come, and thanks for trying it out!

Please don't hesitate to leave feedback as well, good or bad. I'll do what I can to implement improvements if they make sense. 

Github:

https://github.com/timearley89/MoneyMiner/