These are miners. They use electricity to mine gold.

Gold is then used to upgrade and purchase more units for your base.

You can now press tiles again

Development beyond this point has occurred after the jam has finished.

@NEOWIZ_QUEST 's NARRATIVE JAM is underway!

Create an original narrative / story game in 10 days for a chance to win cash! 💸

Join the game jam: https://bit.ly/GameDevCommunity

Start Narrative Jam-inspired quests: https://bit.ly/narrativejamquests

A background!

This actually took 2 attempts, you can see the first attempt in gif 2. I rejected it because it was too distracting. It makes lines in your peripheral vision.

@Patata1236 is a Jolter to Watch who makes games and art for fun! Follow @Patata1236 before the quest ends on November 18 and you'll get Coins!

The death animation for when you run out of time!

Watch the bottom of the lighter edge. This slow-mo reveals how the 3D tile animation is just a visual trick, done by scaling a square.

Happy #WIPWednesday! Are you working on a game? Making some art? Practicing a song? Something else? Tell us in the comments!

Overwhelmed is my entry to the GMTK Jam 2021, with the theme of "Joined together".

You can play/rate it here:

https://itch.io/jam/gmtk-2021/rate/1084592

Development will be resumed once I have completed my current project.