Very cute! I really appreciate the attention to detail across the board, and the power scaling of the upgrades felt great. I think the one thing I wanted would've been some added complexity to the dirt fields themselves like them being harder to reach, and them being more organically shaped or having non-diggable terrain floating inside.
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You dig through dirt to find gold !
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A cutscene in this economy?!? Amazing. I am usually not into these collect & upgrade games, but here I think that you nailed the pacing! The last shovel upgrade is absurdly fast and that was also very funny 😆 I really loved it!
Very small nitpick: fonts throughout the game do not look uniform (odd shadows in menus & 5th color black core text not on the pixel grid in the main scene). It is still a 5/5 for graphics don’t worry :)
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plouf!Really great game, loved leveling up my character, loved the aesthetic, loved the music, the planet was very charming and the addition of moles made it feel alive, the way you convert dirt into gold inside your ship is so rewarding, and the satisfaction to have full upgrades and just dig at high speed was amazing.
Thanks for making this game, it was a quick and satisfying experience. Great job!
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Prehistoric GoldAbsolutely amazing, all 5 stars from me. Fun, fast progress, it took me 5 minutes to exit the planet and i felt every upgrade influence. Game design is the best. Flawless!
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Gold StepsThe graphics look very nice , i really like your choice of palette, i didnt finish it but i think its an interesting story
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Golden OrbitLoved this game! It really brought back the Motherlode nostalgia for me! Amazing art and intro cutscene. The music is chill, fits the vibe. As someone has already mentioned, the font in the store and the "core" in the bottom left corner have subpixel shadows, so it would not be possible on an actual GameBoy display. Otherwise, great job!
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The BeachThe art compliments mean a lot coming from you, thank you !
And yeah I spotted and fixed so many little things that did not want to stay in the display resolution (like the particle shader, oh god the particle shader...) but somehow the font ended up 1 px too small and with a weird half-pixel offset. Oh well.
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