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!
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!
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!
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!
This is great feedback! I will 100% take the character direction into account next time. I fully meant to add a pet dog feature and I completely forgot until reading your comment!! Thank you so much for playing and I really appreciate the feedback!
Hey here is my game if you get a chance to play, no specific feedback required just anything you think would improve the experience and what I could do in the future! - https://itch.io/jam/shovel-jam-2025/rate/3737873
Really nice game! Unfortunately for me I am not at the level to get further than about 25% lol. I can absolutely see the appeal here though for people that enjoy the rage genre of games! Nice art style also!
Nice game! Adding the enemies in gave a good sense of strategy as you went further down. I think an upgrade system that you could use the coins for would be great for this game too!
Really nice game, lots to think about and manage with the upgrade system and reloading. I would love to see more built idea on this like more weapons with more ammo and different enemy types in the future! Great job for your first jam!
I liked the mechanics here it's a cool idea! As someone had mentioned coyote time would have been a nice addition as one of two of the jumps felt quite precise but otherwise good job!
Really enjoyed this game! I will admit I did not complete it (after way too many attempts) because things ramped up drastically and I am clearly not at that skill level yet lol. Nonetheless for your first game I think it was super good, love all of the different elements you added in here.
