Very nice game! i really enjoyed it! The miner must feel so bad after all that pizza, but hey, pizza is to die for?

Really cool game, and it looked really good too! My time was 4:36 - I sort of just rode the pizza guy straight down ahaha I only collected 24 gold bits :P

I really like the concept for this game. Having to keep the shopkeeper with you as you dig down adds an interesting twist to the game. I also really enjoy the little disembodied shovel. Letting the player move while the shovel does its thing on its own is a great way of keeping the game fast and frantic. I will say that it gets a bit repetitive, especially after you settle into a strategy, so it would have been interesting to see new types of obstacles introduced over time to change things up. I also felt like the pizza meter might have been draining a bit too quickly, but it did keep up the game's tension all the way to the end. Overall, a really clever game which captured my interest. Great work!

Lost my first two games because I couldn't figure out how to get out of the shop before I starved to death :(. Starts really brutal, but quickly gets fun, I enjoyed it! My guy is *way* more agile at digging than I expected, didn't even realize I could dig sideways, let alone up, for quite a while. Animations for all the different digs were pretty great! And, uh, my time was 15:26.

This is awesome! The animations look great. I usually don't like hunger mechanics in games but this was pretty cool! I finished in 5:42.

I took my time to get every upgrade, so my final time was around eleven minutes. I was pleasantly surprised to see how many upgrades I could buy, and they all felt useful to obtain as well! The main struggle to find gold while keeping the pizza man with you is pretty good, though with how unnecessary it ended up being to get gold in the end, something could be changed to make gold more needed? As in, buying the next ten pizzas with a gold, or in some automatic drain? It would incentivize getting the gold more instead of the stated goal of reaching the bottom as quick as possible.
Over time the shovel noise was getting a bit grating to listen to, but that is my only nitpick on this game. The digging detection on the shovel is very impressive, able to dig sideways and even up is amazing!
Very great work with this!

I wish you put jump on space bar! but I really enjoyed the game I didn't end up getting too many upgrades and I didn't really end up using the bombs since I rode the pizza guy all the way down. The beginning of each run was pretty stressful trying to manage your food and getting the initial upgrade but after you get more food holding size it chills out. Overall a really fun game nice work! I also think some music would be pretty good to go over the fun sounds while you dig!

We made very similar games, but decorated them very very differently. Got a solid giggle here, the screenshake and the pizza splorts really set an appropriately ridiculous tone.

Something about the controls just wouldn't let me wrap my mind around them, I kept finding my fingers in the wrong place, and every time I opened the shop I had a brief panic trying to remember which button was the buy button while my food was ticking down in the background and pizza Jeff was somehow throwing pizzas in the entirely wrong direction despite me being on TOP OF YOUR TABLE JEFF, HOW CAN YOU MISS ME. This is perhaps an intended experience, but I did not like it.

Art is decent, nothing to write home about, tasteful for the scale of pixel art, and sufficiently unified to where nothing felt off (except the background, but it didn't bother me). The end was in about the right place, maybe a touch too far, but I really appreciated that there was an explicit goal to reach.

My Pavlovian response is to dig all the Minecraft gold I see. Seriously though, great artwork!

I think the pizza mechanic makes it quite hard and you have to plan every step. Good game.

A clear concept executed solidly. Nice oomph to the digging. Trying to play along with dave is frustrating though!!!