This is a standalone version of the minigame that players encounter at the end of Goldmine. Give it a try or check out the full version of Goldmine on Steam.

Unlike the original Dragonsweeper, which was briefly posted here before, this one is completely re-written from scratch and includes several new features.

The ability to change the size of the game board.
The ability to select a custom percentage of mines.
Music. (The original piece written for Goldmine.)
The ability to toggle sound and music.
Your custom settings save automatically.
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Several helpful UI enhancements.
The ability to use the keyboard.
- Tab to traverse forward
- Shift + Tab to traverse backwards
- Space or Enter to open (or to press dialog buttons)
- Shift + Space or Shift + Enter to flag and unflag

More information

Status	Released
Platforms	HTML5
Rating	Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars (1 total ratings)
Author	Alaric von Teplitz
Genre	Puzzle
Tags	minesweeper
Average session	A few minutes
Inputs	Keyboard, Mouse
Links	Steam

Development log

Music fix
Dec 07, 2022

Comments

5ig0p1 year ago

Love it! I especially like that marking the eggs is tracked. Creative and simple, it's a fun quick game.

if you're planning on improving, there are some aesthetic notes,tho. like the dragons are cute, and what great art, but we don't get to see a close-up of them in a loss condition. They look like they can be scaled up to see more baby dragon.
The color contrast is also a bit difficult? It's good you have different shapes for colorblind people, but something about the contrast is flat. For one thing the shinyness of the eggs makes the hatched open eggshells look raised, like they're all the same.
And this is just my personal take: the sound effects are not quite enough to get me to that popping packaging bubble-sheets satisfaction state. I like that everything is milder and more chill, but again, I feel like there should be more contrast there too. Like, not terribly extreme! That would take away from your style, which I like. But just a bit more on the dial

Alaric von Teplitz1 year ago (1 edit)

Edit: Rewrote the whole thing. See if you like the new version.

Hey! Thank you for playing and these are accurate and relevant observations. Sadly, I'm no longer in contact with the artist I hired to do the graphics back in the day, so my options are to either leave everything as is, or to hire someone to create new visuals, which can get expensive, or to do it myself, which would be incredibly cruel to players. 😅

That said, I'll be on the lookout for better sounds. If you find some free or inexpensive ones, do let me know! I'm also thinking about allowing the player to set custom sizes for the board, and custom percentage of dragons. Would this be something you'd like to see added?