I've waisted about 4 hours on this game in the past 2 days, so be warned... dont play unless you have lots of free time.

http://www.xgenstudios.com/motherload/motherloadx.swf

Basically, you're in a rover on mars that can drill down, to the left, and to the right, and fly up. Your mission is to collect various minerals and gems in exchange for money to upgrade and fuel your rover. You start out with the really cheep stuff near the sufarce, Ironium and Bronzium, but as you earn more money and upgrade your rover with better engine, drill, and a large gas tank you can go deeper to discover Silverium, Goldinium, Platinium, Einsteinium, etc, which are all progressively more valuable.

You can also save your game so you can continue later. This lets you keep your money and your upgrades, but unfortunately you lose whatever drilling progress you've made so far. Also watch out for earthquakes and gas pockets.

The best tactic I think, is to just drill straight down once you've gotten a couple upgrades. By going straight into the ground, you can more quickly reach the valuable stuff, and by leaving a straight shaft you wont get lost as easily and run out of fuel before making it back to the surface.

Sounds really fun, but I'm confused about why you need to go back to the surface.

xgenstudios makes awesome games.

Defend your Castle > *

Heh... the medium tank has TK-421 on the side.

Fun.

I played that alot when it just came out.. Fun.

I hate you.

In other news, how deep are you guys? I'm at -2000ft.

thank you DS, i just wasted about 2h of my day.

To fill up your fuel tank, and drop off what you've mined so far. Drilling and moving around consume fuel, and if you let your tank go empty, you lose the game. Also, once your storage box fills up, you have to return to the surface and empty it before you can continue mining. In addition, the places to buy upgrades and repairs are all located on the surface, and upgrades are neccessary if you want to be able to drill deep enough to get the good stuff.

When I asked that question I had only been dinking around with it for a minute. Now I have seen the error of my ways. I'm down to about 1500 feet. Man this gigantic tank of gas is nice. And I found a martian skeleton! It gave me 10,000 dollars instantly!

Stupid earthquakes. They've now wrecked two of my 2000 foot shafts.

The "religious artifact" was handy though; gave me $50,000.

Shoot! Dsett, how do you handle the lava? I bought the dual turbine like the guy said and they still kill me! WTF!

so buy the tri-turbine-ultra cool or whatever.

so far i've found religious artifact, martian body, and two sets of dinasaur bones.

I've found martian remains, relects, treasure, bones... all sorts of things...

It's too fun.

yes, I was lucky enough to find three of them in close proximity, they were quirte usefull in upgrading my rover.

I found this game repetative. Not to mention, I don't like progressive games like this. I just want a game that takes skill and ability, rather than progressive patience.

Does anyone else have a glitchy background as well as slow framerate with this game? Cus I do. Also how do you sign up to save your game? I quit the game thinking it would ask me if I wanted to save, but no dice, lost my game...

I'm down to 4000 feet now! I've got a new strategy for drilling really deep - instead of going straight down so your return to the surface is easier, buy a quantum teleporter and just go down until you run out of fuel. Buy a few backup fuel tanks and you can stay down pretty much until your cargo bay fills up.

Once you get down so far
You fight the devil

I LOVE LAMP

I've been playing this for months now, it is amazingly fun. My lowest is about -5000. And a cleared out ALL land down to about -1200, then an earthquake hit

AAAAAARGH @ gas pocket!!!!

I was down past 5000 feet, and I hit one.... that sucked. But it's probably a good thing, because I've already wasted five hours on the game... it was it's way of telling me "get a life"

This game will entertain me for a while in web design class. I seriously think I play about 3 hours of tetris a week in that class.

Has anyone beat it yet besides overlord? I'm gearing up to beat it.

The trick is, you need about 50 plastique explosives because blasting becomes FAR cheaper than drilling once you get below 5000 feet.

True.... I should have just blasted my way down.

Okay, I found a crapload of amazonite, and I have the absolute best equipment, 20 teleporters, 75 extra fuels, 100 dynamites, 100 plastiques, and 75 repair kits. I'm headin' to the bottom!!! w000000000ttt!!!!!!!!!!!!!

And for you non-believers out there, the amazonite drill is worth every penny. It makes drilling almost as fast as falling; no joke. It digs 120 feet per second. That means nearly a thousand feet per minute.

$#@(%&!@#%)#@&%)(@#!%&@!#(%&@!#()%@!!!!

word to the wise: 75 repair kits is NOWHERE NEAR ENOUGH TO BEAT THE END GUY

!@%&(!@%&!)%&!@)!!

Haha you guys have spent more time on this already than I have, and have gotten a lot farther than me. I've only made it to about 2,500 feet. :p

Okay, I'm goin' back down with 1,000 repair kits and 871 plastiques. I am NOT going to be defeated this time! Wish me luck!

Phew, that was damn hard, but it's done.

How do you have to fight him? Try to drill him?

Blow Him Up.

I winner'd!

Must buy more stuff... Must make little thingy better and better... Darn You! Why did you post that link!

Alright, I'm not getting screwed over this time.... back down to 5000 feet, and I'm not using my drill unless I absolutely have to (i.e. collecting Amazonite)

Once you're fully equipped with awesomeness, the gas pockets only take off about 1/4 of your health.

Gas pockets are REALLY starting to piss me off.... that, and the fact that it doesn't save the position of the shafts when you save the game.

EDIT: Really? In that case, energy shield here I come.

Be sure to get the biggest turbines, too. They decrease the damage you take from gas pockets.

I didn't figure that out until I was almost finished

Yeah, Energy Shield alone won't save you, you need the highest level Fan too.

Aha, "Mr. Natas".... I get it now.

Wow, this guy is hard to beat.