Glorgo's Microplastics Mine

Mayhem, Microplastics and Monsters. USC GAMES | 2026

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ANNOUNCEMENT: Glorgo's Microplastics Mine!

So we've come across your dashboard. What are we?

Glorgo's Microplastics Mine is an Advanced Games Project game being developed by USC students for the 2025-26 school year. We are a brilliant Y2k-themed, eccentric incremental resource manager that rattles the senses while you’re tasked with overseeing the small but mighty workforce under you who are sent into the alien mines to retrieve the precious microplastics your scheming boss desires. 

Hire more of your delightfully expendable miners to harvest more microplastics, increase your operation with upgrades that help you meet your quarterly goals, and defeat the horrors that threaten to ruin your workflow.  Watch as your miners grow, change and mutate before your very eyes during their exposure to the microplastics they’re surrounded by in both humorous and uniquely grotesque ways that make one ask the question of when is enough enough?

Glorgo's Microplastics Mine will be released for free in May 2026 for everyone to play on Windows and Mac!

Follow us for more updates on the game on our Instagram, Tiktok and Twitter.

Keep an eye out for our official Steam page launch, also coming soon!

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MEET GLORGO’S NARRATIVE LEAD: Max!

Max is our narrative lead here at Glorgo's. He oversees all the narrative aspects of Glorgo’s Microplastics Mine.

Glorgo’s Microplastics Mine is an absurd incremental game being developed by students at USC for the Advanced Games Project program 2025-26 cohort. Visit us at Expo in May 2026!

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something tells me that our pto isn't getting approved this quarter ...

Glorgo’s Microplastics Mine is an absurd incremental game being developed by students at USC for the Advanced Games Project program 2025-26 cohort. Visit us at Expo in May 2026!

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Have you been curious about where all that plastic that our miners retrieve goes? Honestly, so are we. But our UI team has been hard at work creating a lovely plan to use all of those microplastics in our HUD.

Sleek, shiny and a downright stunning uses of resources, we're more than excited to share with you what our team has concepted recently! Tell us below what you love most about this design!

Glorgo’s Microplastics Mine is an absurd incremental game being developed by students at USC for the Advanced Games Project program 2025-26 cohort. Visit us at Expo in May 2026!

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as per suggestion of our mine manager, maybe don't go outside if you see them wandering around ...

Glorgo’s Microplastics Mine is an absurd incremental game being developed by students at USC for the Advanced Games Project program 2025-26 cohort. Visit us at Expo in May 2026!

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MEET GLORGO’S ART LEAD: Felicia!

Felicia is a Computer Science Games student at USC. She oversees all the art aspects of Glorgo’s Microplastics Mine.

Glorgo’s Microplastics Mine is an absurd incremental game being developed by students at USC for the Advanced Games Project program 2025-26 cohort. Visit us at Expo in May 2026!

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MONDAY MOOD - March 30th

As one of our first (official) releases of what we've been tirelessly working on behind the scenes, we have a quick clip of some gameplay from our most recent build of the game. Look at our little miners go, collecting all those beautiful microplastics for the good of the corporation! :)

Glorgo's Microplastics Mine is all student designed and developed from start to finish. We have an incredibly talented team making leaps and bounds of progress towards a fully realized system of microplastic extraction -- all for our glorious Glorgo. Let us know below in the comments what you think looks cool in our beloved incremental mine simulator!

And don't forget to join us at USC Games Expo 2026 on May 12th for our full release of the game Glorgo's Microplastics Mine!

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We're writing up our contracts, requisitioning our pick axes and donning our hard hats -- Glorgo's Microplastics Mine is officially on its way to beta, and we want YOU to join us when our student-developed game arrives to Steam and itchio as part of this year's USC Advanced Games Project cohort in May 2026!

Meet our team at USC Games Expo on May 12th, 2026 and stay tuned for further updates!

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MEET GLORGO’S LEAD ENGINEER: Blake! Blake is a Computer Science Games masters student at USC. She oversees all the engineering aspects of Glorgo’s Microplastics Mine. Glorgo’s Microplastics Mine is an absurd incremental game being developed by students at USC for the Advanced Games Project program 2025-26 cohort. Visit us at Expo in May 2026!