Backpack Dungeon by Neon Glass

Description
You've found an ancient relic: a backpack of gargantuan proportions! The problem is, it's too heavy! Grab your trusty pickaxe and try to figure out what's holding it down!

Instructions
- Place your pickaxe near rocks to dig through.
- Get more pickaxes by opening a clear path to them.
- You can merge them for a small (10%) multiplicative bonus to speed.
- The game ends when the dotted line passes the last unlocked tile.

Controls
- LMB: Move pickaxes around.

Credits
Neon Glass Team:
@dragonayzer - Programming, Game design
Friends:
@tabera - Art, Game design
Olgabo - Logo design
Music by Aleks SHAGI
| Link | https://neon-glass.itch.io/backpack-dungeon |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/56/backpack-dungeon |
Ratings
| Overall | 446th | 3.646⭐ | 26🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 235th | 3.761⭐ | 25🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 364th | 3.521⭐ | 26🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 962th | 2.917⭐ | 26🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 375th | 3.917⭐ | 26🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 212th | 3.75⭐ | 24🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 460th | 3.182⭐ | 24🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 426th | 3.646⭐ | 26🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 32🗳️ | 5🗨️ |
It is a bit hard, and you kind of feel at the mercy of the terrain, but it's pretty nice nontheless.
Good luck on having the 20ratings!

To the game: It is a really relaxing game with clear visuals and a simple to understand gameplay.
Sometimes it feels a little too slow especially in the beginning.
I liked that you see your highscore at the end. Maybe make the "meter visual display" in the right upper corner a lot bigger, because I haven't noticed it.
The power up system by combining different pickaxes is a good idea and as a player you have to decide when you want to merge them. Congrats for finishing this game!
Awesome game! Like the dude above, I found it really addicting. I would have liked if the merging bonus was stronger, but otherwise great game!

I had fun playing this simple and original infinite strategical puzzle game - even if I needed a little time to understand how this is working - so, good job!
PS: you really should play and rate some games in order to be ranked, your game is pretty cool and it would be so bad that you don't get rating for it
PS2: …and I just understood that I played all this time, forgetting that I could merge some pickaxes… :rofl:
PS2bis: …so, using this information, my new record is 83.5m, which is way satisfaying.
Cute game! I like the chill music and the click clack sound of the mining, and all the faces haha. I wonder how this can be expanded, maybe different types of pickaxes that mine in a different pattern? Or little temporary buffs you can pick up? Solid start either way!
I would love to install a game like this on my phone to kill time on the subway
https://youtu.be/7Yi2kg4OiTU