Miner Builder

Prospectus

You'll become a skyscraper builder! Operate construction equipment and build the tallest skyscraper in the world. Collect blocks using a bulldozer.

How it plays

⁃ Move using the on-screen stick/WASD/Arrows; - To board a bulldozer, approach it. Wait for the gauge to fill; - To exit the bulldozer, press the button; - Board the bulldozer and collect cubes; - To board a crane, approach it. Wait for the gauge to fill; - To exit the crane, press the button; - Board the crane, build a house from cubes, and earn coins; - To upgrade construction equipment, go to the upgrade menu and press the button; - Upgrade your character and unlock new types of cubes; - To unlock a new conveyor belt, accumulate coins and purchase a conveyor belt; - To hire assistants, accumulate coins and purchase an assistant.

Opening an account with this game takes one press: Open the holding, above, and it loads on this page itself — nothing downloads and no form stands between you and the first decision. It is drawn for a portrait (upright) screen and takes its instructions from mouse, keyboard or touch, as the game prefers. The file is drawn tall, for an upright screen — a phone held the usual way frames it best, though it will run in any window you give it. If a fullscreen control is offered, take it — a growing enterprise deserves the whole desk.

Analyst's notes for simulation holdings

• Learn the loop before optimising it. Every simulation is a circle — earn, spend, expand, earn more — and the players who last are the ones who found the circle's slow point early.
• Watch one full cycle without touching anything. A simulation confesses its priorities when left alone: whatever runs out first is what the designer wants you managing.
• Small inefficiencies compound faster than big ones. A route that wastes ten seconds every cycle costs more than a disaster that happens once, so audit the routine before the dramatic.

Miner Builder — questions from the readership

What does it cost to open Miner Builder?

Nothing, at any point. The holding is free from the first click to the last upgrade — no account to open, no download to wait for, no paywall filed anywhere in its pages. The advertising around this page is what pays the bookkeeping.

What kind of game is Miner Builder, exactly?

We file it on the Simulation shelf of the ledger. It is a browser game through and through — the prospectus above is the publisher's own summary of what the game asks of you and what it gives back.

Can I play Miner Builder on a phone or tablet?

Yes — it runs in the browser on phones and tablets just as it does on a computer. The file is drawn tall, for an upright screen — a phone held the usual way frames it best, though it will run in any window you give it.

Is there anything to download or install first?

Nothing at all. Miner Builder is an HTML5 game: press the open button and it loads on this very page, and closing the tab leaves nothing behind on your device.

Closing entry

Finished the audit, or still mid-season? The full Simulation shelf is one click away — The ledger's main hall: 302 simulations of everything from bus routes to burger counters to entire small lives. If it can be run, staffed, watered or worried over, somebody has simulated it and filed it here.