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This was tough! Really liked the overall polish on the game here good job! 

Really enjoyed the simplicity of this game - straight to the point but very enjoyable, took me a few tries to complete!

Thank you!

Thanks for the feedback and yes I agree animations would have been good there!

Good job on this! I had a fun time getting through the different levels, I really like the concept! 

Thank you! 

A simple game but executed really well! I love how you have used Pico here, there are a lot of small touches that are really good. The screen shake, player animation and the trail animation as you speed up all really add to the experience. Great job this was a really fun game! 

Really like the concept here but as others mentioned it is quite hard - I made it to the barrels section a few times but could not get any further. I think if the player was maybe able to move in all 4 directions without the gravity it might have helped with the difficulty. Overall the idea here is good just a shame I wasn't good enough to see most of it!

Really like the concept here - I think a few more additions would really take it to the next level such as enemies moving on the grid also or in my case I would have liked grid lines on the tiles as at first I didn't fully get the movement on screen. Great job on this I think the concept here could really be fleshed out in the future! 

As others have mentioned the art style and audio here are great! I think adding a feeding timer to each beast would add a little more challenge but overall was a nice game!

I like this style of game! Would have been cool if rather than the aliens growing time based if we had to buy them food or something also to make managing the money tougher - good job overall! 

This was a nice idea for the game - I would have liked a health type system because one wrong moving ending the game felt very tough - other than that nice job! 

Wow such a simple childhood idea brought to video game form! This was such a creative idea! 

Really nice job! I was playing on a laptop with no mouse so not the best score ever but really like the overall gameplay here! 

Not sure why that would have happened, but I have now enabled the fullscreen option thanks for highlighting! 

Thank you for the feedback! Yes unfortunately didn't get as much time to do dev this week so couldn't add more minigames this time.

Thank you so much! I'm glad you enjoyed the game!

Thank you for playing!! 

Thank you for playing! Appreciate you pointing that out, it seems there was still a few bugs to iron out that I had missed.  Glad you enjoyed the message of the game!

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If you get a chance to try out my game here it is! Any feedback is welcomed! - https://itch.io/jam/shovel-jam-2025/rate/3737873

If you get a chance, here is my game! - https://itch.io/jam/shovel-jam-2025/rate/3737873

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I really enjoy this style of game! I think with some more updates (animations, UI etc.) you would have a really good base to build on for doing more games in this style. Really enjoyed the discovery aspect here, nice job! 

This is a super impressive submission for your first game jam, well done! - I feel like a bit more feedback from enemy attacks and maybe a detailed tutorial would've helped here. I don't normally play games in this genre so I was initially very unsure of what to do but as I played I got the hang of things a little more. The scope of this game is huge for a game jam, very impressed with what you have made!

Nice platformer game, good art style and animations too! The last level was a difficult one but I enjoyed the experience with this game!

Really unique take on the theme! I really enjoyed each of the minigames and having a leaderboard was a nice touch, made me want to keep trying for higher scores! Two things I noticed, in the pong style game I got the ball stuck on the wall and it just kept going up and down in a straight line. Also in the game where you have to find the correct start button, I realized if I just spammed the space bar it would just give the correct button each time. Just wanted to point those out but overall really enjoyed this game! 

Thank you for playing, appreciate the feedback! I will definitely check your game out! 

Something about this game just works for me, I really enjoyed it overall. Nice art and music. Trying to balance getting upgrades and meeting the amounts required by the deadline was a nice touch. Finding a way back out of the mines you had dug was also an interesting challenge. Good job! 

Nice submission, I enjoyed this platformer. Was great difficulty balance as well I just completed it in time but it was very close! Overall the art, music and controls made for a nice game!

This being your first game jam project is an incredible outcome! Really like this style of game, nice idea for buying new recipes as time progressed etc. I do think the days could have been shortened to keep it engaging. Just another point when I first loaded the game the coffee machine just didn't work no matter what I did, but when I reloaded the page it worked so not sure what the issue was there. Overall great job! 

The idea for this game is unique, I don't think I have played something like this before. I liked the little touches of the sound effects for each activity or the last route being shown on the map! It may be on my side but the performance did struggle at times. I ended up just going broke each time because I was unsure how to get more money, that's probably a skill issue on my side though lol. Nice Job! 

Here is my game if you get a chance to check it out! - https://itch.io/jam/shovel-jam-2025/rate/3737873

Here is my game! - https://itch.io/jam/shovel-jam-2025/rate/3737873

If you get a chance to give my game a go it would be much appreciated! - https://itch.io/jam/shovel-jam-2025/rate/3737873

Here is my game, any feedback is appreciated! - https://itch.io/jam/shovel-jam-2025/rate/3737873

Hey if you get a chance to play mine it would be much appreciated! - https://itch.io/jam/shovel-jam-2025/rate/3737873

Thank you for pointing out some of the bugs I had missed! I will keep those in mind for future projects - Thank you!