This is how the game looks like now:
Its rating on Google Play is 4.8 after 1320 reviews. Feel free to check it here: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.airapport.farm.mine.idle.ludumdare48
This is how the game looks like now:
Its rating on Google Play is 4.8 after 1320 reviews. Feel free to check it here: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.airapport.farm.mine.idle.ludumdare48
Friends, 2 years ago Russia launched a full-scale invasion against our country, Ukraine. It committed so many war crimes that it proved to be a real terrorist state.
When the invasion began many game development communities and companies declared that their values align with freedom, rights, life, and supported Ukrainian defenders, who are protecting these exact values against the Russian invasion.
The messages "We stand with Ukraine" were so heartwarming and supported the spirit of Ukrainians who in winter 2022 amidst the explosions and air raids had to find ways to survive and protect others.
When Russia attacked Ukraine on Feb 24 2022 the world was shocked. But isn't it a much bigger shock that attacks continue for over 2 years?
Now, after 730 days, Ukraine stands, and people like us can live, only thanks to the defense of the Ukrainian defense forces. We are thankful to all our friends from the whole world who provide Ukraine with the vital supplies.
Within the recent months we see that pro-terrorussian forces are doing everything they can to delay the delivery of these lifesaving supplies. Therefore we address you, players of our games, common people like us, with a request to further support Ukrainian defenders.
Please, keep supporting initiatives such as
And, if you are not afraid, please, contact your elected representatives in your countries and ask: what are they doing to help Ukraine?
All your help is valuable and can save lives!
Airapport games such as Farm and Mine and Idle Tower Builder gathered international community: as of Nov 2023 there are over 19000 members on the games' Discord server.
To make it easier for the players who speak different languages to play the games the translation engine is included. Most of the initial translations were made automatically, but many players suggested to help with the texts improvement.
To make it easier to improve the current translations and to add new languages we created a special Github repository: Airapport Community Translations. This repository contains language files which can be edited and placed into the game's data\translations\ folder, and your changes will appear in the game at once. These files are compatible with Farm and Mine v.1.2.5 or higher and with Idle Tower Builder v.1.4.11 or higher.
This repository contains 2 folders: trans/farm - with the language files for Farm and Mine and trans/tower - with the language files for Idle Tower Builder. These are json files which can be edited with any text editor. The section "phrases" of a language file contains pairs "key":"value" for the translated text. For convenience these pairs are grouped by their meaning: "general interface", "buildings", "inventions", etc. You can corrent any translation or tranlate the terms in "untranslated" groups.
Once done, please, save the file. To test your translation, please, use the Itch version of the corresponding game, and place the updated language file to the data\translations\ folder.
To let other players use your translation, please, update the file in the repository and make a pull request. Don't forget to fill in the "lang_translator" value so that we will thank you in the game!
Copy en.json file under another name. Fill in the "lang_code" and "lang_selfname" fields to identify new language. Add your information as "lang_translator" and tell about the state of the translation in "lang_translation_comment". And finally, change all the English texts from the keys into the desired language.
Test the translation on your game copy by placing the new file to data\translations\ folder, and once everything is ready, please, submit the new file to this repository to make it available for other players, and to be included into the mobile updates of the Airapport games, too
Thank you for your help!
Codes valid till Nov 18th. Have fun @everyone!
The first lines of Farm in Mine were written 2.5 years ago at the Ludum Dare 48 game jam. The theme was "Deeper and Deeper" and it gave an idea of a game where the player first digs potatoes and then reaches coal, iron, oil and other natural deposits.
Since then the game is updated with new content, concepts and convenience improvements. In its current state there are 52 work facilities, 28 professions, 51 inventions, 6 cats, 8 permanent prestige upgrades. Here is a teaser of a fully unlocked farm:
Many ideas from the newest update were suggested by the viewers of my livestream. During the whole September we were running a streaming marathon where we played Farm and Mine for 30-60 minutes every day. During the streams we shared strategy advice, answer questions and discuss plans for the future. Totally the streaming marathon took 19 hours and consists of 38 series.
This experience helped us spot and fix various gameplay issues. Sometimes we even did programming right on the stream.
The biggest issue spotted was a difficulty to regain progress after a midgame restart. The commonly used strategy to do it was the following: wait till the game offers you a daily reward, but don't use this reward right aways. Instead, restart, gain prestige points, and after this get a daily reward (which might be coins or ideas). This tactic helps to regain progress after a restart, but the restarts were limited by the availability and the value of the daily bonus.
So to make the players restart easier we added 2 new facilities: Bank and Library. The corresponding inventions for them are unlocked after the inventions Economy(2) and Science(1).
Once constructed, these building start generate coins and ideas. But not for immediate use. Instead, these resources will be available for use only after your restart the game. So, once you construct Bank and Library you'll be able to restart at a time which is the most convenient for you.
Among other improvements the update 1.2.2 brings are:
The game is available for Windows, Linux, Android and iOS.
As we live in Ukraine, we never forget that we can keep creating games only thanks to the protection of the Ukrainian Defense Forces and the help from our friends worldwide. Ukraine is withstanding the terrorussians' attacks for over 600 days now. Please, keep supporting volunteers' initiatives such as O-Pocket Foundation (https://o-pocket.org/). This is a fund organized by the game developers from Kharkiv, the city in the East of the country. They provide the Ukrainian defenders with the necessary supplies.
Your help and support are vital. Thank you!
These days we are running a streaming marathon playing my Farm and Mine idle city building and resource management tycoon. On the todays stream I'm going to share the bonus codes for Airapport games such as Engineer Millionaire, Steampunk Idle Spinner, Idle Tower Builder and others. You are welcome to join!