I started developing Farm and Mine in April 2021, being inspired by the theme of Ludum Dare 48 "Deeper and Deeper". The idea was to combine agricultural and industry simulator by digging potatoes at the farm first, and then mining for coal and other deposits.

The game was released in August 2021, It had 25 unlockable facilities that form production chains and 18 inventions. The game progression involves interconnection of 3 currencies:

• coins (regular production upgrades and new facilities purchases)
• workforce (automation upgrades, limited by population, can be rolled back)
• ideas (inventions)

After prestiging the player can distribute prestige points on permanent boosts.

Since then I keep updating the game. In the subsequent updates new facilities and inventions were added, such as Fishing, Cats, Lemonade, Oil drilling, Ferry, etc. Also new prestige upgrades and convenience improvements were made within these 2 years.

And now I'm proud to announce that the newest content update, Farm and Mine v.1.2.1 is live in Google Play, AppStore and Itch. It adds 2 new production chains: Cotton - Textile - T-shirts and Lavender - Perfume. Also there are new inventions and new Prestige points applications.

So the current version of Farm and Mine has 52 work facilities, 28 professions, 51 inventions, 6 cats, 8 permanent prestige upgrades. I'm happy that it was rated 4.5-4.8 on mobile platforms :)

• Windows and Linux: https://airapport.itch.io/farm-and-mine
• Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.airapport.farm.mine.idle.ludumdare48
• iOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/farm-and-mine-deep-idle-ld48/id1564694016

Many ideas from the newest update were suggested by the viewers of my livestream. Starting from Sep 1st I'm running a streaming marathon where I play Farm and Mine for 30-60 minutes every day. During the streams I share strategy advice, answer questions and discucc plans for the future.

The next stream starts today in just 3 hours (20:00 Kyiv time), you are welcome: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCe8uhO7YC8&list=PLU_iW_uK7HGQYyZ-Xfphdq-2xYgs_muvJ&index=83

Game discussions are also going on in Discord: https://discord.gg/airapport-games-439374417584324609