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Super insightful! I appreciate that you played and gave me this feedback. A lot of this is stuff I tried to put in, or had to cut for time or game-breaking bugs. Downfall of working on my own.

I've already started designing a full version of the game, and I intend to include modes like custom kart design, multi-player, and more. I'm planning to find some people for things like art and music so I can focus purely on the programming for the REAL game. Tons of QoL stuff is on the list, and even more gameplay features. Full game will absolutely be worthy of sinking hours into.

Oh believe me, I wish there were opponents too. There's a decent amount of code sitting in a github branch somewhere from when I tried to get enemies working, but having enemies carrying kart pieces broke the whole system.

Version 2 will eventually have all that and more.

IF YOU WANT TO BE BETTER AT A GAME THAN SHOVEL THESE ARE YOUR TIMES TO BEAT:

Shovel: 00:29.999

Thanks: Unplayed (track sucks anyway tbh)

Bunny: 03:26.180

Yeah, I was working alone and ran out of time (had a weekend trip). I plan to make a much larger version in the future. And yeah, there was SUPPOSED to be a variety of music for each track, but the player wouldn't shuffle.  Many features had to get cut. Especially sad about the lack of phase 1 enemies and extra tracks.

I intend to make a version 2 at some point in the future and will keep this in mind, thanks for playing!

I laughed so hard at the restart button, and the game is super polished.

I really like the concept of skill tree roguelike, but I think it suffers from issues of costs and when things unlock. It takes a ton of time to get through the health and damage upgrades, and all the while they are suffering diminishing returns (30dmg -> 31 dmg feels much less significant than 10->11 for example)

Yeah, I ran out of time for juice and enemies. Problem with being 100% solo.

Planning to make it into a full game at some point with features and lots of juice.