MP2a: Mining Tower

Orbital Mining Tower is a VR management simulation centered around building and operating an autonomous asteroid mining facility.

Players can construct a Mining Tower on a spatial grid, harvest randomly generated asteroids, process recovered materials, store resources, sell them for Credits, and reinvest those Credits into tower upgrades.

Features:

• Grid-based VR building placement with a transparent placement preview

• Five asteroid families with different resource values

• Asteroid shattering and harvesting

• Automated cargo processing and physical resource storage

• Six player resources, including five mineral types and Credits

• Seven tower upgrade categories:

Mining Range, Processing Speed, Storage, Engineers, Power, Walls, and Weapons

• Dynamic tower statistics including Health, Shield, processing rate, storage capacity, and upgrade levels

• Animated construction sequence

• Contextual tutorial pop-ups

• Animated machine textures that indicate active processing states

Controls:

• Use the VR controller ray to interact with tower interfaces

• Select the Mining Tower to begin harvesting or unload cargo

• Activate the tower to sell stored resources

• Open the Build menu to place additional Mining Towers on the grid

• Use the tower's world-space interface to purchase upgrades

Developed in Unity for Meta Quest as part of CS 417.