Controls:

Left Mouse Button: Select and place explorers.
(optional) Mark/unmark a field, if you think it contains no treasures.

 Right Mouse Button: Mark a field for excavation by placing a Flag. Each Excavation wil cost you 500$ at the end of the
                         Expedition. You may go into debt to start your Excavations.

        Each treasure you find will reward you with 3000$.

Q or LMB: Place an adventurer on a field. He will look around in a 3x3 Grid and tell you how many treasures are nearby.

W or LMB: Place an archeologist on a field. He will study the field he is placed on and determine if there is treasure.

E or LMB: Place a cartographer on a sideline. He will the lay of the land and find out how many treasures are in his row or
                       column.

R or LMB: Pay the fortune teller. He will foretell you how many treasures are available in this expedition.

Mountains can't be explored by adventurers and archeologists. But they can be marked for an excavation.

1 game consists of 3 expeditions. Will you be able to get rich and/or famous?
Rich: Double your money from 50.000 to 100.000 by spending less money on explorers.
FamousBecome renowned amongst at least 75% of your peers by finding most of the treasure in the expeditions.

                                                                                                                                              

For the Secret Santa Jam 2020, I received a letter from Bears.  In it he told me that he enjoys Picross/Nonogram puzzles. An idea quickly sprung to my mind, when I reminisced about playing "Voltorb Flip" in Pokémon and Minesweeper. 
Why not mix different ways to gain incomplete Information in a grid puzzle?
With that general idea I tried to cram Picross and Minesweeper together into one game.
I wanted to reward using as few pieces of information as possible to complete the picture. This little game is what I came up with in the limited time before the holidays.

I hope Bears enjoys it!
Making a game for someone else in a gamejam was a nice motivation.
I would encourage everyone to join the next Secret Santa Jam.

~Sadtwig


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Tombsweeper Windows.exe 2.8 MB

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