Great potential but in big need of some balancing as initial excitement of the concepts was a bit washed down. I understand in archeology a certain amount of luck is needed but in game it feels like crazy amount of grid needed to use some of those upgrades.

To sum up, great potential not the best execution in this release but I expect you will manage to make those adjusts after the jam because it has great possibility to go further with this game

This is a cool concept! I don't think I've played a game like this before. The mechanics were interesting, but I think the overall game loop ended up with a bit too much downtime, and the money earned feels pretty slow. I had to play hiroshima quite a few times before getting even one upgrade, which felt like it was too much. Here's a few tweaks I would make:

• Cut back on downtime. maybe you can add the ability to manage at least two "working tiles" at once, just to give the player something to do while they wait up to a minute while the game just counts down. You could toss a slow brushing timer down and then fill your waiting time with faster shovel spots to grind for cash.
• Your first playthrough of hiroshima should give at least enough money to upgrade one tool. Having no level progression and not enough cash to buy upgrades after finishing a level feels like the player wasted their time, or that they did something wrong. Grinding content should pretty much be avoided where possible, and definitely should not be encouraged so early in the game.
• Mention the importance of the brush somewhere in-game. I did not notice that the game was unbeatable without it even after playing for quite a while.

I loved the art and the music, and I loved the concept. I hope you continue with this!

This is an interesting one. I like being able to dig for new artifacts and seeing the art and quality difference. I can also see this making an interesting loop where you dig up artifacts, sell them, then dig up more. I think it would be nice if it didn't take so long to dig things up and if there was a tutorial on how the tools worked. I didn't really understand how the duster worked and the pick-axe didn't seem to do anything. Would also be cool to have something to do while waiting for things to finish! Overall, this'll be cool if the player was given more information inside the game instead of having it in the documentation. You definitely have potential with this, though! I love the art and it seems like a game that'll be fun to play after some work. 

Loved the vibes, and the music matching to the intensity of the upcoming storm. Kinda wished I could use all three of the tools at the same time or atleast had another way to prepare the next tile I wanted to dig up? Because it felt very slow, and for the last seconds you know it wouldn't matter even if you tried to dig or not. Another method could be balancing the waiting times to be way shorter, but making the artifacts still a little hard to find so the result would be similar (if 1-2 artifact found per playthrough is what you're going for). Other than that good job!! Fits the theme very well too in my opinion

This game has a great sense of atmosphere, the changing tempos of the background music do a great job of building tension as the storm approaches. I like the art direction as well it fits into the ancient explorer/artifact vibe nicely. I think this was a really solid idea for the theme, and it had some high stakes Indiana Jones feelings as a result. One place I think the game lacks is in the gameplay itself, the gameplay loop is solid, use different tools to discover artifacts and upgrade your tools to find better artifacts over time, thats a good start. But I feel that the actual gameplay of clicking a tile and then waiting for 30 seconds or a minute or whatever is very anti-climatic especially when you did such a good job of building the tension/atmosphere up to the point. I wish there was something else to do while waiting for one of my tools to work, and the long stretches of down time hurt my enjoyment of the gameplay. Overall, I think this is a solid entry with a real sense of identity and a unique take on the theme that would be even better with some juicer gameplay, good work!

Very unique concept for the theme. I did find the gameplay a little slow and hard to understand. I think an indicator  for which tools work best which tiles would help a lot with figuring out what to do. And maybe a screen that shows what to look out for in order to find artifacts would be helpful, it felt pretty random to me. Congrats on the submission!

Its a bit frustrating to dig 3-4 squares in a round and find nothing, decide it was bad luck and play again, and then find nothing again.

My first impression when opening the game was "holy what, they made a whole game wtf". I was impressed by menus, the amount of text, button images in-line with text and settings.

As others said, it feels like the game is promising, but there really is no reward at all in the beginning, nothing to grab attention or keep you playing. If that got added, the game would be 10 times better.

cool game, it takes some time to understand what's going on. A tutorial would help a lot

This is a really fun take on the theme, I was really impressed with how fleshed out the game seems to be, with many screen for unlockable and different eras!  I loved the music speeding up and changing in the last 40 seconds.

I think this game really needs a tutorial on what tools do what however.  I first used the shovel and it was going to take 20 seconds, but then the pickaxe took more time than the total round?  This seems like a pretty deep game and I would love to see it get expanded out with a proper tutorial!

Amazing job!

Great concept and execution!!
Would have loved to play more of it (played the full version you linked) but the game feels so slow and difficult to get in managed to get three artifacts.
A tutorial would have helped the game so much, coz I thought we had to use pickaxe on the bones and after some playthroughs figured out the white things are clues and not stones :D

Also noticed the music getting faster and faster which is a nice little touch but it gets irritating after the 15s mark. You could make a track keeping the time constraint in mind and edit it and then add it to the game maybe. You would have a lot more control over how it sounds.

Overall, a really good game and with enough polish and balancing I can see people investing hours in it..

Kudos!! :D

The game seems a bit difficult to understand, but it looks fun.

That was pretty cool, gave me some 90's vibes kinda, a little reminiscent of things like AoE and such. Very cool, nice work!

Nice concept! Collecting the artifacts is fun, as well as eagerly hoping I'd chosen the right area to dig, haha. Also really enjoyed the tension created by the slowly approaching storm and the increasing tempo of the music. Great job :)

Nice game, I love the fantasy of being an archeologist. The thing that kind of disappoints me is the game feels slow and not easy to start, I mean I just wanted to come and dig diamonds here, but then I have to wait every time I dig, and also figure out that the game time is paused or whatever so I can't dig... Especially for game jam game, I just wanna have fun as soon as I start the game, not have to wait or something. Now maybe it's a very cool game that develops over time, and maybe I should be more patient, but you're probably gonna lose some players like me. Overall, I really appreciate the mood and visuals, so not a bad game really, it's just a matter of preference :)

Interesting and liked the historical aspect, nice job on this!

Hee-ho. Cool visual. Interesting idea

I would love to see more work and pollishing on this concept

Nice game- I mainly like the idea. The other comments have great suggestions that I agree with.

I really like these kinds of games and I think your team did well to put something like this together for such a short jam! I have a few game design feedback notes for if you do a post jam build. I think the player is rewarded by receiving artifacts and subsequently gold and upgrades. However I do not think the player rewards come soon enough in the game. I played three expeditions and did not have enough gold for one upgrade and I had only found three artifacts. This left me feeling like, as a player, I was not making any progress at all while playing and this was not satisfying or motivating. This could be solved, I believe, by making the first tier of upgrades cheaper! This will incentivize the player to play for longer. Also the fact you can only use one tool at a time made me feel like the gameplay was just me waiting for a certain amount of time while doing nothing. I think this could be solved by allowing the player to multitask (having multiple charges of tools that can all be used simultaneously) or my making the timers much shorter, like 600% faster (max wait time 5 seconds). I really am impressed by the UI and gameplay for such a short jam. I could totally see a game like this being expanded. Great Job!