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This is exactly the sort of game I would've played for hours as a kid on friv. Something with incremental upgrades, procedural generation, ah this brings me back.

There were a couple things I ran into during this (other than rocks) that I think need to be addressed. One, I see there are stats for things like visibility and drill strength, but I couldn't find a way to upgrade those in the shop. If it does exist, I think it needs to be made more obvious, because I was very interested in upgrading those.

Another thing is keeping your dig progress after respawning. If I'm not wrong, couldn't you just dig straight down, respawn, rinse repeat forever? It wouldn't be very fun probably but since score is determined by depth reached, I feel like that's the sort of thing that could be used to optimize the fun out of the game.

I was curious so I just tried doing this myself, I keep running into a bug where I get stuck after entering the shop. So I guess, in a weird way, there is something preventing you from doing that.

Potential cheese aside, I had a good time digging around in this!

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thank you so much for these insightful feedbacks.

1. yes there were supposed to be additional upgrades that  you saw but for some reason when I uploaded the game to itch.io, I think it has something to do with the html, the upgrade ui does not show up

2. yes thequincally you could just go straight down. I tried to incerase the difficulty of enemies as you went down. but I didn't have a lot of time to tweak the enemy difficulty that much so its possible its too easy right now. but I will for sure have to keep working on that in the future.

3. yes other people told me they had trouble with the shop. I think its because I didn't allow for a fullscreen mode. this is only my 2nd jam and so I was aware of this option but I will definetly look into how to do this in future jams.