
Journey across a dystopian galaxy as an interplanetary mining prospector, matching and collecting valuable minerals across six uniquely haunting worlds. You just need a mouse to play. SpAIceRocks is a Unity 6 match 3 PC game for Steam that is being developed using as much AI as possible.
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🚀 SpAIceRocks: Intergalactic Match 3 Mining Adventure
Journey across a dystopian galaxy as an interplanetary mining prospector, matching and collecting valuable minerals across six uniquely haunting worlds. Each planet tells its own dark tale - from toxic swamps and polluted underbellies to frozen moons harboring ancient secrets. You just need a mouse to play.
Key Features:
🌎 Explore 6 Distinct Planets: Each with its own atmosphere, character, and exclusive minerals to mine
📈 Dynamic Board Expansion: Success unlocks larger mining operations - start small and expand up to 12x12 grids
⛏️ Strategic Mining Tools: Unlock and deploy powerful clearing tools:
Plus Clearers: Clear minerals in a cross pattern
Column Clearers: Clear entire vertical sections
Row Clearers: Sweep across horizontal lines
💎 Unique Mineral Types: Each planet offers exclusive new minerals to collect and trade
🎯 Progressive Challenge: Clear boards to earn credits and unlock access to new worlds
🎮 Strategic Gameplay: Balance your moves, tool usage, and mineral matching to maximize profits
🏆 Level-Based Progression: Complete collection goals to advance and expand your mining operation
Start your mining empire on a humble beginning world, then use your earnings to unlock access to new planets, each with their own valuable resources. But beware - every world has its own dark history and environmental challenges to overcome.
Match three or more minerals to collect them, but plan carefully - you have limited moves to meet your collection goals. Use your earned credits wisely: invest in powerful clearing tools, unlock new mineral types, or save up to purchase rights to mine on new planets.
Will you become the galaxy's premier mining magnate? Can you unlock all six worlds and uncover their mysterious histories? Start your cosmic mining adventure today!
Perfect for fans of:
Match-3 puzzle games with strategic depth
Sci-fi themed games with dark atmosphere
Resource management and progression systems
Quick sessions with long-term goals
🎮 Your first mining operation awaits - ready to start your galactic enterprise?
Also for AI Fans:
SpAIceRocks is a Free to Play Unity 6 match 3 PC game for Steam that is being developed using as much AI as possible. This open source game has been generated almost completely built with AI:
- Game logic generated from Cline (VSCode plugin) + Claude AI & Unity Muse
- Graphics from Midjourney processed with Rembg
- Music from Udio
- Sound effects from and (non-AI)
- Font suggestions from a mixture of experts with ChatGPT's and Claude's suggestions winning out so far.
- Special effects from Unity Particle Pack (non-AI)
The trailer animation at the end was generated with Reflection Image to Text, it its sound track is an extended version of an Udio soundtrack in the game.
Thank you to all the awesome providers above!
You can download the Unity game source and art from my site on github.
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Slop does not begin to describe what this 'game' is. I don't think you could even call it a game, because games are an expression of art and this is an expression of.. laziness? incompetence? It's a soulless husk of nothing is what I'm trying to say. As it says on the Store page for this game, it is almost entirely created using AI. Only bit of original art in it is the 'special effects' which are just generic Unity ones, although I'm unsure where these are actually used in game anywhere. Every single asset in this game is soulless and unoriginal, and to call this anything resembling art would be an insult to everyone who has ever made anything. Even looking past the painfully bad AI textures, this is a terrible pile of slop (I refuse to call it anything but, it is definitely not a game nor anything that implies creativity). The video on the Store page implies there is 'voice acting' (See: AI voice generation) which is not present in game, and there are two whole animations in the entire game: The rocks disappearing and becoming score, and the rocket ship moving between planets. Notice how both of these are the most basic thing possible? I only downloaded this game so I could reach 5 minutes and review this the exact way I knew it would be from seeing the Store page. Please, for the love of god, do not play this AI-generated pile of slop masquerading itself as a video game.
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It's the saddest match3 game I ever played. I assume no human was involved in this? Not even testing. Because I can't imagine anyone sane would play this and say, "yeah, it's totally ready for release". There's no tutorial, so it takes time to figure how do you move pieces (drag doesn't work, just click). Only row/column collapses, and more than 3 gems give you no bonus, You gotta unlock bombs and additional gems and they just appear randomly. No save/load, no picking planet you want. Also, only background is different, you get exactly the same gems. You may only unlock specific gems on specific planet, so if you want your field more colorful - start it over. You get 20 moves and a task to collect ~40 gems, after finishing task your field gets slightly bigger. With new planet field's size resets. That's it. Gems bear no animation, with collapse they just disappear. But bombs - they sparkle like there's no tomorrow. Making me regret about unlocking them. You don't need them to finish in 20 moves anyway. Idk is this how alpha release usually looks like? I'd expect more gamepleay even from alpha, frankly.
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Clearly an attempt to capitalize on the flourishing AI game market. And it was a fair attempt. But, unfortunately, the sound effects are not AI. AVOID AT ALL COSTS.
[quote][url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_slop][b]Warning: AI Slop[/b][/url] This game is partially or completely made with talentless, soulless AI generated content.[/quote] "SpAIceRocks" is a garbage Candy Crush ripoff, ok, this has been done before, but this one looks awful, plays worse. Why? Because the ENTIRE THING is AI SLOP. This should not be permitted at all on Steam. This is cancer. Despite having no up-front cost, this failed to appeal to the 130 million+ gamers on Steam. SteamDB shows this peaked at [b]only 5 concurrent players[/b]... this is a dismal public reception. This was so bad they couldn't even give it away. Bearing in mind that free games don't add +1 to your game collector count, should you bother adding this to your library and downloading it? Not on a bet. I didn't have to pay for this, but I still feel ripped off. The use of AI slop is a direct insult to gamers and real, ethical content creators and artists everywhere.
Distopik bir galakside, gezegenler arası bir maden arayıcısı olarak yolculuk edin, altı benzersiz ve ürkütücü dünyada değerli mineralleri eşleştirin ve toplayın. Oynamak için sadece bir fareye ihtiyacınız var. SpAIceRocks, mümkün olduğunca çok yapay zeka kullanılarak geliştirilen Steam için bir Unity eşleştirmeli PC oyunudur.
смешно читать как бомбят про ИИ, я так понял что тут ИИ большую часть сделало, может и коряво а может три в ряд это и не игра вовсе... вообщем лайк только за внедрение и использование, может скоро или уже такого мусорного контента будет много и эта не очень хорошо, не хотелось бы чтобы оно завалило стим, тут и так куча без идейных и не играбельных попыток, но надеюсь на то что у ИИ все получится
This is a fun match three game with a cool mechanic of unlocking new worlds and ores. If I could modify something, I think it would increase the challenge of the game if the tools were planet specific and scaled in cost with each subsequent planet. This would force the player to grind a bit more in the later stages of the game. This was covered as part of this week's episode of Free2Play Weekly: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOpAPcknVUg&t=134
Nope. I got to click twice for every gem swap. I can't swipe with the mouse, This doesn't play smooth No sound Only one level No music No obvious progression system No rewards for doing 4 and 5 matches.
Игра SpAIceRocks - это увлекательное сочетание классического аркадного шутера и инновационных AI-элементов. Управляя космическим кораблем, игроку предстоит крушить астероиды и отбиваться от враждебных кораблей в динамичном космическом пространстве. Что действительно выделяет эту игру - это применение искусственного интеллекта в поведении противников, делая каждый бой непредсказуемым и требующим адаптивной стратегии. Графика проста, но эффективна, а динамичный саундтрек создает захватывающую атмосферу. Улучшения для корабля и разнообразие видов оружия позволяют настроить свой стиль игры. Однако, сложность может показаться высокой для новичков, но это лишь стимулирует к улучшению навыков. В целом, SpAIceRocks - это отличный выбор для тех, кто ищет динамичный и сложный аркадный шутер с интересными AI-механиками. Рекомендую попробовать!
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