Amazing game! Really cool and unique mechanics, with clever puzzles and a funny overall tone/vibe! I also really love how the lil' dudes are just referred to as "lil' dudes" and very much look and feel like lil' dudes, it's perfect 😆 Great job!

This was so good! The music and graphics made this feel like a finished, polished product. There were a few things in the gameplay that could be improved though.

1. Food collision. When you have the game paused and place a food directly on a dude, they just continue falling through it without eating, this made it so you had to predict where the dude is about to go, but not in a fun way, more in a frustrating way when you guess slightly wrong and have to restart for it.

2. Food balancing. I think the beans and pizzas are way too strong! I was able to beat the entire rest of the game without soda after they were introduced, so you've somehow managed to introduce power creep into your 12-level game.

3. Auto restart when all dudes are used up. Saves a fraction of a second, but I was always expecting it, and it made restarting a little awkward.

And incredibly, this is your first jam game. Super well done and only a few minor gripes but only when I'm reaching for them. Well done!

Awesome! I love the way you introduce new foods just at the moment I get the hang of the old ones, always feeling fresh and giving the player new ways to solve the level. Very well designed.

Amazing. Don't know if you've played the game Lemmings but your game reminds me of it in some ways. Last few levels had a nice difficulty level.

Something that bugged me was when trying to redo a level that required a very specific placement of food I had to redo it a couple of times if I didn't get it lined up just right. One way I could see this being fixed is an indication of where a food item was when it was eaten on the previous run. (Like just a little half transparent burger/bean/etc. at the exact grid spot). That way I could redo what I did last time quickly while being able to adjust slightly as needed.

I found that some levels could be completed using less guys/food than it gave me, so something that could encourage replaying levels would be to have statistics, for example, how many guys ended up being used or how many food items were left over. Maybe assign point values to each to aim for a high-score.

Very well done I had a lot of fun!

Wow, this is such a great game! The puzzle difficulty is perfect. There are multiply ways to complete the rounds so i works great. Epic win for your first jam, you’re a natural. Congrats!

Heres ours if you wanna check it out.

https://itch.io/jam/shovel-jam-2025/rate/3738248

Wow, amazing game! I really like the idea of a group of little dudes scavenging for food, with a box of WacWonalds as goal :D I really like the visuals and the last few levels got surprisingly difficult. There were 2 bugs I found though (don't know if they were intended, because I could solve all the levels without making use of the bugs). The first one was that if a lil' dude landed on 2 foods at the same time, it would turn into both, for example if you have a soda can and a burger on top of it, and the lil' guy collided with both at the same time you would have the bouncy lil' guy on top of the inflated lil' guy, so you sort of duplicated it. The other bug was that you could feed the lil' guys when they were still standing at their starting point. Weird thing about this was that it only worked sometimes, and also only with (a) specific food (which differed each time). And when it the game turned to the turn of the already transformed lil' guy, the arrow would go to the middle of the screen instead of the lil' guy. Just wanted to point these out. They didn't influence the fun gameplay. Again, really good game, especially for your first game jam :D

Fun: really fun puzzles, the idea of making people turn into bouncers and platforms was really good, love it

Presentation: love it art style, the sound design was great as well, did you draw them yourself?

creativity: love me some WcWanalds, the idea of starting the movements and arranging the food was great, fits the theme well, great work

I just LOVE the visuals and sound effects

So charming :D

first game and 125 ratingsssss omg how did u even get it u deserved it though and the puzzles r good the game is just w

This was pretty fun! Loved all the puzzles, at least I wouldn’t been able to make so many and so good in 10 days. And the sound is absolutely amazing. And this by one new to jams, pretty sure you are going to win this category.

Well done!

This is a really fun puzzle game and the last couple levels were pretty challenging. Everything about this is super creative and well made :)

I loved most of this game, i loved how many solutions there were to the levels, the graphics and sound were top notch.

The only reason i didnt finish it that retrying levels took a long time. Later levels require multiple perfectly-positioned items, and every reset you have to re-place every item, which takes a long time. I'd usually know the solution to a puzzle long before i actually solved it, leading to me spending quite a while in that miserable stage of knowing how to solve a puzzle but being stuck with the buzywork of actually doing so.

Somebody said this reminded them of polybridge, so imagine this: what if polybridge deleted your bridge every time it collapsed and you had to rebuild it from scratch? That is - in effect - what your game does. You've got a lot of room to expand these mechanics, but not if you keep knocking down my bridge.

Wow this was very well done! The level design was very well done and as someone else mentioned, it was nice that placements didn't have to be pixel perfect. I like the variety in gimmicks as well with the different food types. Honestly, I don't have anything negative to say about this game! Nice job!

Very ful lil game, I liked the level design, allowing you some to place the blocks few blocks to the right or left, but allowing the level to be still playable. Great job on the first game jam!

this is a really cool little puzzle game, i think we have a winner for the newbie category here

This game is so cute!! I love the art style.

It looks like I forgot to rate this one! I love this type of game. I super struggled with the last level but I had a lot of fun on this one!

This game has amazing humor, the sound design is peak, music is tasty, and the visuals are fun and silly. The levels have totally solid puzzles which I really enjoyed. This is my favorite game so far I think; Good job!💯

Really nice game and impressive polish, especially for a first time jammer! It a fun challenge to try and solve the puzzles, and using the different foods for different mechanics was cool. Great work!

Very well made game, astonishing for someone new to game jams. The aesthetics, puzzles, sound effects, music, it all contributes to a great experience all in all. Excellent game all around that could fool me into thinking it already was a fully made game.