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I love the frog art, and see what you're going for with this. After a few runs of engaging with the locks and rerolls, I just started spamming "submit" as it was efficient,. I maxed out a few upgrade trees like this, but otherwise didn't know what I was progressing towards? Is there an end?

I think, like in luck be a landlord, persistence + RNG will just yield this kind of spam farming behavior. I feel like if I had a bit more decision making power, and had to make it to maybe a certain depth within "x number of extractions," I would have engaged more carefully with the decision making and push my luck mechanics. 

Also, RNG works best when there's like a lot of random going on, like a match 3 board. This ensures you almost always have SOMETHING going for you in your current results. In this iteration, it's too easy to roll twice and just not get a pickaxe. Maybe consider a bigger, modern slots style board? like a 3x5 grid or something? In any case, nice work, and I hope you stick with it. Push your luck / rng narrowing games can be quite fun and I like the "dig deeper!" theme!

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wow thanks for playing, this was some of the best feedback I think I’ve gotten the whole jam. So thank you for going through with such detailed feedback. I did have some influence by luck be a landlord and other slots games, I’ve seen games using cards but I thought slots would be more doable for the jam.

originally you were going to hit checkpoints that allowed you to start at a deeper depth, deeper depths have harder rocks to break but more rewards. I was even going to have specific types of gems needed for upgrades but then I ran out of time so the upgrades are kinda bare min. but I think with the feedback you and others have given me, I now have some ideas to play around with to improve the game and like you said give some more options ( a bigger slot grid sounds like it could be run )

I actually had some ideas about different frogs that work a little differently that you could unlock. I basically made the game I would like to play at it’s very very basic version.

but seriously thanks for this feedback it gave me a lot to chew on