Botdown

Botdown! 
Dig, explore, and collect precious ore to upgrade your ship in this short exploration game within a lightly randomized moon mine. Styled after games like motherload and steamworld dig, this exploration game puts your patience to test! You're a hyperintelligent mouse mining the moon in search of a lost robot. Good luck on your mission. We're counting on you.

This is a game primarily designed for Dosember 2025. It was written in ZZT using Weave. (This game lightly randomizes levels, so I'm sharing it with the fine folks in ProcJam 2025!)

Playing it
Included with it is an HTML-based web-player!

This game has been tested in Zeta, a DOS emulator (that uses cycles=max to ensure the game runs as expected. Zeta is the expected emulator for DOS ZZT games, if you're executing this game's EXE independently, please ensure cycles are set to max to avoid untested performance!)

Background

This game is related to (at least) two other games I've made, go check out the two 2.4hour games I made: its direct prequel, bombpt, and the game it's a direct prequel to: bomodi.