Ore Else

Drill… Ore Else.

A cooperative flowchart-programming game. Each player is a mining robot on a shared asteroid, and your tableau of cards is your firmware — a grid of flowchart nodes wired by adjacency. Every shift your pawn executes a few steps of your program, then you get one edit.

Open the board (TV) →Phones only

1–4 players. Any seat can be a bot, so one human with three robot teammates is a real way to play.

Open contracts

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How it plays

The team wins by reaching a points Quota before the Clock runs out. The Clock is a face-down deck of shift cards: one flips every round, it decides whether the shift is Day or Night, and when there is nothing left to flip the contract is lost.

Execute — your pawn walks your firmware, spending steps. Cards mine, smelt, unload, launch, fabricate. Sensors branch YES or NO; counters loop.
Edit — one action a turn, on anyone's firmware: install, blueprint, replace, move, reorient, tune, patch.
Refined metal is the fork in the road: launch it for points, or have your bot fabricate it into equipment. Equipment is never bought — it is built, by your program, and each piece bends the rules.

Build a Scanner and you can see what the Clock is about to do. Build nothing and you will still be drilling when it stops.