The villain creature made me piss my pants :-)

Superb animations, tight gameplay, a bit more dependence on luck than I'd prefer, full of anxiety, trippy and scary as fuck. Awesome.

Btw don't forget that if you don't rate other games you won't get any ratings yourself

Haha, good lord, that was some kinda bizarre trip. It's very polished, and solid. And very hard. I love how you can see and hear the distress in the mushroom's voice, sobbing as he digs for his life and tears apart the little mushlings. He doesn't want to be doing this. He HAS to. He has to survive. To flee from that... thing.
Very cool.

@everette-h We did too while designing it. We don't blame you

Wow, that was quite something! Every time I thought I was at the end of content there was a bit more I discovered one layer down. The slow descent into insanity was quite a trip. I love the polish here, the flavor of the whole thing is just exactly on point, and everything clicks. I only ran into one (very small) bug, where I couldn't turn around if I had my back to a wall. Everything else is tight, put together, and has a remarkably unique feel to it. Spectacular work!

@a333 Hey, thank you! It means a lot to hear all of that- we were really hoping to accomplish a tight gameplay loop and invoke that sense of fear. And we can't wait to play/rate everyone's games!

@logan Thank you- that means a lot! Poor mushroom man might have bitten off more than he could chew (pun intended) when he ate that first little mushling. Maybe it's justice for the mushlings, though?

@justinmullin Thank you so much! We're so glad to hear that we invoked that 'descent into insanity' lol. Definitely would like to fix up that glitch in a post-jam patch- thanks for bringing it up!

When the little mushroom guy screams in agony as it is ripped apart I'm mentally screaming too. Amazingly made horror game!

I kind of root for the horrifying monster to be honest.... being ripped apart is what the little mushroom guy deserves for ***being a cannibal!!*** The cannibalism really completed the horror bit.

@peace-of-cake-games Hey, good to see you again- Hope LD48 went well for you! And thank you! Honestly, we can't blame you for rooting for the monster after what the mushroom man has done. Poor baby shrooms...

Wonderful aniimations! The vilain is really successfull and creepy :p

The gameplay is efficient, and the atmosphere is really dark (eating baby mushrooms to survivre, what a horrible thing ahah)

Is there an ending?

Thank you for your game!

I hate you but nice game

Funny game, great animations. The controls felt a bit slow or wonky. But cool game with great visuals.

This is actually a bit creepy.
Graphics are gorgeous, animations are so fluid :o
I very much like it :)

@chtimy Thank you!! There isn't a true ending - the only way for the game to end is for our poor mushroom man to be torn apart. There are 5 biomes though, so there's more content to discover as you delve deeper!

@elektroney We don't hate you, but the giant abomination with arms for facial hair might think differently. Thanks!

@majadroid Thanks! The slow digging was definitely a goal to add to the horror of the chase lol. We're glad to hear you liked the animations!

@2rek Thank you thank you! Glad to hear it!

Wow the game is well polished and damm is the creature creepy, but in a good way.

Animations and sound are awesome, and pair together perfectly. It's a weird and disturbing little place to be. Adding to that, I don't feel great playing as a creature that eats cute mushrooms. The concept works well, but I wish that there was something to collect other than eating little mushrooms. Also, seems unnecessary to ask the player to hold z while digging-- if they are moving into a wall, then they always want to be digging it. The last critique is that the player;s collision box is huge, it's usually better to keep it a bit smaller than the graphic on the screen. I really like when animation, music, and sound effects work well together, and this was the best I"ve seen in the jam so far.

Love the atmoshpere that the sounds and visuals produce, wish their were some more interesting things to find though.

The sound design is truly amazing! Im not a big fan of game studio making entry on the ludum dare, but the high quality is here, can't deny it. Amazing game and good luck with your point n click!

The art is so good! The death animation is absolutely horrifying, as is the monster.

My fan theory is that this is how mushrooms view humans.

Super atmospheric - love the sound design and the death animation!

It's cool to see people producing games at such a level of polish during a jam. Animation and SFX are well balanced, plus I loved the pressure the sound gives the player. A different sound may have helped to tell if something is unbreakable, but that's a matter of taste. Good job !

+ Simple, elegant, and addicting game design. A "one more run" type of game.
+ Cool music all around. Especially the menu music and when you go pretty deep in the game.
+ Clever and succinct way to tutorialize the game via cutscene. 1) Cannibalize mushroom children to stave off the dark. 2) Somethings chasing you. All shown in few seconds


@brainloaf-studio
I dug 123 layers. How much more content am I missing out on??

@rick2112 That means a lot, thank you!

@microchasm Thank you! Disturbing was the goal, so we're glad to hear it worked for you. When it comes to more items to collect, we wanted to keep the scope of the game realistic for the jam, but we do have ideas for more content if we ever expand it! Also, automatic digging is an interesting concept, but ultimately we feel there are more tactics to be had when the digging is manual. We'll keep in mind the hitbox as well! Thank you very much for the feedback, we appreciate all the thought put into helping us make this game better!

@tryston Thanks! We agree that there is potential for different items and content, and love the idea of expanding on this game some day!

@hippolytea We agree that our sound designer did amazing work! We understand that 'Studio' is a scary word, but to clarify, we are an indie game team made up of only 2 members (we had 2 more friends join us for SFX/Music and Voice Acting on this game jam!) :)

Thank you for the good luck!

@divford Many thanks my friend! It means a lot that you believe we achieved a horrific death scene for our little hero. Also, thank you for our first fan theory :)

@m11 Thank you, thank you!

@kaihyo We appreciate the feedback very much! We also agree that more varying sounds for different blocks would have been a nice addition.

@tyreyes32 It truly is gratifying to see your list of feedback. Tutorializing the cutscene was almost accidental, but we're glad it worked out that way!

There are 5 'biomes' total- 123 layers deep being at around the 4th one. Although the 5th biome doesn't add new content, its a terrible amalgamation of all of the ones above!

Holy s**t, what is that thing?

Great graphics, sounds and music first of all, I really like the style.
I would like to see some more variability in the environment and more things to do other than dig. I missed some ways to stop or at least slow down that... thing.

Also it seems the only way I could switch to dig to the side was to actually go into that direction for at least a short distance. If I was digging downwards very close to the left wall and I suddenly wanted to dig to the left, I had to first go to the right a bit and then come back.

Oh and the creature was terrifying.

Nice game overall :slight_smile:

@mvasko2 Thank you!! That glitch is indeed a pesky one, we hope to fix it up soon in a post-jam patch! We're also not sure how much you played, but there are 5 different environmental biomes that appear the father down you dig to add some variation with tile types. We appreciate the feedback a lot!

Waaaaattt

This is super scary and nightmarish :D. Very atmospheric, music and graphics are great, it fits the theme perfectly!

@fraukauz Thank you! We're glad to hear you enjoyed (is that the right word?)

@brainload-studio ask me again tomorrow morning after a good long and relaxing dreamless sleep :D

WOW! I love the feeling this game gives of. Fantastic visuals and scary sounds, i like this game very much.

@yeppe Thank you, we're glad to hear it!!

Just amazing, nothing else to say. Don't know how you managed to do it all in just two days, but damn, this is very impressive.
Awesome game!

@nahuelito Thank you!! We entered the jam instead of the compo, so we were able to work with 3 days of time, thankfully. We're glad to hear you enjoyed!

Cool little game! Simple mechanics but it keeps you playing. Played it a bunch but only got around 21 digs deep. At a certain point I kept getting blocks that I couldn't break through. I probably just got unlucky. A jump mechanic would be helpful in case I get stuck on a dead-end path.

@cdunham Thank you for the comment! You can jump with the up arrow key :)

@brainloaf-studio Really? Could've sworn I tried up, space, w and so on. I just played it again and it was because I was holding the dig button :/ I got to 25 this time though!

@cdunham Here's to 30!

What a nice and horrible game! I liked it. I liked the slow build up and polish in the art overall.

A very very fun game, the artistic style is spectacular and it goes very well with the music, the difficulties are somewhat complicated but it is okay it is more fun like that, great game and great job.

@boclow Thank you!

@pancho We appreciate the compliments, thank you!

Really cool game !! Simple concept but great execution, I loved the creature and the different transitions to new block types.
The atmosphere is truely unique and disturbing I loved it. Music and animations are very cool.
I got to layer 122 :)

Well that was terrifying. Take my stars and go summon Chtulhu somewhere else

@revetoon Thank you so much! Extreme props for reaching a layer that deep!

@jojopalambas Yesssss... more stars to fuel the ritual...

very cute! your animation and art is just incredible for a game jam! i love the slippery wibbly wobbly movement of the shrooms. The mechanic of eating your own kind to survive is grusome in a very fitting way.

I made it to level 84. Ended up getting trapped by the wormy-like blocks.

I think finding some kind of powerup to get that perhaps gives you superdigging for a limited time/number of strikes, so you can one hit any boulder, would be a good addition so the gameplay doesn't get as repetitive.

The controls were fairly tight, felt responsive and not floaty, though i think i hit a few edge cases in pressing various buttons at the same time that left my character unable to move until i released and pressed the buttons again.

Over all, very fun and well polished entry!

@sakura-magika Thank you for the awesome feedback! We also thought about adding a speed powerup like that, but ultimately had too many other things going on to properly rebalance the game around such a major addition. It's something we think is very possible to add in a post-jam update though! Those edge cases are indeed pesky too, and something else to fix for sure. Glad to hear that you enjoyed the game though, we appreciate the comment!

Top notch. Great animations. That feeling of anxiety will never leave me i guess.
Solid Entry!

@advay Thank you!!

This was a genuinely horrifying experience! I wasn't sure what to do once it was completely dark, but I ended up at level 74 before I heard a bunch of screaming and demon sounds and died. I love the death animation too. Very original.

@manan Thank you! It's basically game over once it gets complete dark - be sure to collect the little mushrooms along the way to replenish your light!

Great game ! The sound design and animations are excellent! Every thing just works together !
I had one minor inconvenience that was already mentioned though, the not being able to turn when to far to the side you want to turn thing.

Very nice game!!!

Graphhics and music great. Mood very good.

Made it to level 129, woooo.


The idea of a slowly approaching wall of limbs and flesh inexorably coming towards you at the very edge of your vision radius is brilliant.

Nice :wink: lol

This is really really good! I'll try to find one tiny thing to nitpick. Some of the tiles seem to be totally unbreakable. If this is true, maybe a different animation (like the getting hurt animation) to tell you that it's never going to break. The dark gray rocks cost me a little time because I thought I'd eventually get through if I hit them enough times.

That's all I have though, everything else was perfect and far surpasses my expectations of a game made in a weekend.

Sooo cool! One of the best games I've seen here. It's so bizarre and beautiful! Graphics, animation, music, everything fits, everything sits. The amount of work behind this is outstanding. Congratulations!

@mpetrus @ghubert Thank you!!

@eximir That means a lot! That's definitely a pesky bug, but we'd like to fix it in a post-jam patch!

@ddrkirbyisq Woah, that's pretty deep! Glad you liked the concept!

@mhorth Thank you! That's definitely something we'd like to make clearer in a post-jam patch - we agree that it can hard to tell what's breakable or not at the moment. Appreciate the feedback!

@bereg That means a lot to hear, thank you!!

Simple clean design. I think you could've streamlined it even more by removing the need to press z and just have the digging in the direction you're going automatic. The art is great and the animations are really well done! I got 95 levels deep! overall very clean and polished entry well done

Damn that was intense! The music was too loud though, and I really miss an audio settings menu, but other than that great work!

Here's my highscore:

@denzil-gomes Thank you!! We opted not to make digging automatic so that you could jump and retain a bit more control when things get hectic. We're glad to hear you enjoyed!

@mateusboga Thanks for the feedback, glad to hear it was sufficiently intense! Volume options are definitely something we'd like to add in a post-jam patch!

Love the art style, love the audio, hate the monster :smile: This game is very unforgiving, one wrong turn and you are done... :smile: Seriously, it is very nice :slight_smile: I would also appreciate some "super dig" or maybe some other instruments, like pickaxe for the rocks etc. :slight_smile:

There is my LP :slight_smile:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orrg7NucML4

69 layers! I like relieving feel when you get lightsource again... main hero animation is outstanding and sound esign support the idea. Cool!

Fun game, eccentric graphics yet I don't want to die at the end... It's a morbid one.

Fantastic game, I loved everything. The animations are great, the sounds / music are great (I especially liked how it evolves to become more and more horrific). The gameplay is nice and original and fits the theme well. I almost missed the more creepy parts, thinking it was only about the first 3 types of blocks. Fortunately I persevered and went deeper.

A few (tiny) things to improve:
- the two types of rocks are very similar and at first I didn't realize that one of them could be broken, since it didn't work for the first type of rock.
- sometimes the character didn't turn in the direction I wanted to dig, I guess because I was too close to the block and it turns only when it can walk.

But I'm nitpicking. Awesome job!

@molpe Thank you very much! We agree that more features like that could be cool to add. And thanks for the let's play! We will definitely check it out : )

@mamon Thank you very much!!

@toadietechnika That was the goal! Glad you felt the urge to survive.

@quetzakol We appreciate the compliments! We are aware of both of the issues you pointed out and would love to incorporate those fixes into a possible post-jam update.

HOLY MUSHROOMS. Love this game. Another perfectly made entry for me! It's 5/5 to all! SO FUN TO PLAY. And the visuals, and the animation, WOW!!!!! I'd play as a digging mushroom anytime! Really dig that animation! Feels good to look at!

Maybe if digging on different rocks giving different sound would be nice. Also, maybe arrow/directional keys to dig too instead of a separate key Z, I can imagine playing this on my Android with just swiping left/right, swiping down to dig, and swipe + drag to jump, I'd get so addicted!!! (Would be nice if there are builds for other platforms too. Btw I played this on Linux via wine, game looks incredible, couldn't resist wanting to play it just from the screenshots. But I have no Windows, thankfully it runs perfectly!)