Getting more and more items as you progress through the day is great. I loved the different options and spamming tools up and down the caves. Also, the soundtrack is great, i was perfectly in the "mining" mood.
I did find myself spamming the same 2 tools (cart and pickaxe) and rarely anything else though.
I also found it a bit frustrating that you could not send more than one tool after the other (cart immediately after pickaxe for example). However, I realize that you'd have to program a sort of cooldown or the cave would be cleared extremely fast...
In any case, I loved it! Very nice submission :)
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Thanks, and happy to hear you like the song ( it was the last thing I did for the jam at 1 am in the morning, but it wasn't long enough, so i just slowed it down by x5). The cart and pickaxe were by design supposed to be the best/ most used tool, and i kind of new the others were not going to be as good. I do kind of wish i had a bit more time to balance them, cause some of the tools were almost completely useless (i.e. lantern was super situational). Not being able to send multiple tools was also more of a programming issues than a balance one, the array i had set up could only handle one tool on each line at a time.