It's like *A Game About Digging a Hole* on Steam but its 2D.

Simple mining game, cool! Remember a flash game with the same structure

Cool

Simple, but relaxing and fun. The incremental improvements kept me engaged for a bit, and I especially enjoyed the drill upgrades that really speed up the pace you can mine.

Great game. I really like the movement speed, the powerful rocket really rewarded planning out good mineshafts. It was a bit hard to control at times though. The progression early on was also really good, one of the best paced digging games I've played so far. I had two problems though. The first is that the hitbox for the emergency warp was really tight, so I lost a load of ore or two, and then was so cautious that it took me a bit of time to find the upgrade shop. The second is that I couldn't buy mining upgrade four, which might be why the latter half of the game dragged a bit. The yields got so high that I ran out of things to buy.

@googlefrog I'm glad you enjoyed it! I really appreciate the feedback and fully agree with everything you said, I was so used to the controls by the end that I never noticed how unforgiving the damage hitbox was and didn't get to get anyone to play test until after. Always something to learn!

Day 10 : I reached the bottom ! Only one drill upgrade was tough tho hahaha, found frozen eyes, platinum and fossil, lava blocks and other funny stuff. it was really fun, there are curious collision sometimes that just kills me when i'm climbing up and the exploding tiles scared more than once hahaha. Thanks for the game =)

@monogatari Woah! I can't believe you put yourself through that even with the bugged drill upgrade. Thanks a ton for playing I'm glad you liked it :D

This game remind of that meme of a guy looking for a diamond and given up just before find it... Very nice game! Easy and simple but fun! Congrats

Umm I broke the screen when I went to the side pls fix. Great game though :) Add more ores pls.

Also couldn't buy upgrades

Hey @jamesgames1000 congrats on breaking it ;) Its always a fun time finding bugs in game jam games. I've actually started to work on more developed version of this game since people seemed to have enjoyed it. I'll be uploading it to my itch.io page eventually so you can follow me there if you'd like to get updates https://grimwitch.itch.io/

@grimwitch I'm glad to hear that you will be working on it post LD. looking forward to it!!!

So I was about to stop playing after a couple of minutes, but then I saw the upgrade system! This should be one of the main characteristics of the game! It shouldn't be so hidden! There's So much stuff to upgrade that made me want to see what more has this game to offer.

The game is ok! Is one of those dig-some-minerals-and-get-them-back games. I found it very fun to use the jetpack, the drill goes soooo fast! But then you added some collision damage, which ended up taking the fun away. But then you also added movement speed upgrades which just bring even more chaos.

There's some issues with the movement, specially when you have very deep holes, you start randomly hitting some walls when you are just going straight up or down, which damages you. Also losing ALL the cargo when you lose all your life or your fuel is just so punishing, specially when you are deeper down.

I didn't really dig in the music, I wish it was something more chill and relaxing, as for most of these kind of games. Also sound are really generic after a while, some pitching would have been nice.

Nice entry anyways! 😉

Thanks for the feedback @broco! I'll admit the collision damage ended up far, far more punishing than I intended, combined with a hit box issue the game had definitely made for a frustrating experience.

simple style is my favorite

Pretty cool really smooth feel.

Looks like this was your first LD entry so congrats on submitting your game! Unfortunately it seemed like there was no way for me to purchase upgrades so I gave it the best go I could. Made it down to about 460m before it became almost impossible to get any farther. I probably would've made it to the end if I could buy the upgrades. Like others have said the collision damage is very over tuned where using the rockets for even a second gets too much speed to get damaged. I also ran into the issue where there were random collision boxes which made it impossible to drop straight down a shaft without dying. I would also suggest only taking away fuel based on movement or drilling. I think if you're not moving the fuel should not just deplete. Good job though, I had a good time otherwise!