Digging For Beer

More beer !

Good job! Now I'll take a fresh beer!

Thank you, I'll be sure to do so !

yo! Straight forward digging game.

I really appreciated that the controls where really intuitive and I didn't need to read anything extra to get the gist of everything.

Digging through the ground was fun, but on my first few runs I didn't realise how to refill the beer, especially because sometimes the characters and things get hidden behind the UI.

My only real gripe would be the tavern interface. I managed to refill my beer by clicking on every possible button.
Why do I need to convert the ores manually? Couldn't they automatically get turned into money - or even better different things can be bought for different ores?
I didn't understand why I sometimes could click the convert button and sometimes couldn't. So in the end I felt a bit cheated because I couldn't buy the '50' item because my left over ore didn't count for some reason.
Also when you are buying the refill, it would be appreciated to show that the glass is full again - so you're not confused why the bar man won't take your money again (on that note thank you for preventing to cash in everything I got for redundant refills).

I think the game has a nice simple art style that serves it well.

Good job.

Thank you a lot for playing my game !

Why a button to convert into money ? -> more realistic and in the begin of the game jam, I wanted to add another merchant who use ore but I preferred to take my time to polish my game ! Perhaps in a future improvement !!!

Sorry I found a visual bug after the game jam. When you restart the game, the ui of the ore doesn't refresh nicely. I am appalled to have found this, given that it takes 5 seconds to fix. Fortunately, it's only visual !

I think this game is pretty impressive!

The character actually moves instead of simply teleporting, the minerals do fall if mined from below, the bartender has (essentially) voicelines, this game has those small touches which makes for an experience as refreshing as the beers themselves.

Speaking of the bar, I can confirm the interface is confusing at first, but clicking on all (3) buttons does help with understanding it. I believe showing how much beer remains while in the bar would've helped.

Another thing would be showing or animating the ore to candy conversion, so that clicking the "convert" button once has the amount of candies increase and the amount of ores decrease over a few seconds. This'd help to show the value of each kind of ores if they're processed separately too, because I didn't know which ores had more worth! (I'm not sure I explained well, let me know if that's the case)

Finally, it felt like the amount required to get beer back wasn't increasing as much as it should've. That kind of stuff is hard to balance, I'm sure! Outside of the bar, I don't think I can make any suggestions.

I really liked my time with the game, it was fun! :D

This is a pretty addictive game. The mood and gameplay was fantastic. I like how audio changes as you start digging. Wish keyboard control was possible. Overall, a solid entry.

Hello @Taevas, Thank you for your comment !! I notice that many players don't understand the buttons in the bar. I hadn't thought of adding an animation to help players understand the UI, that's a very good idea!
Yeah, I don't take the time to balance the price of the beer, sorrrryyyy…

Hello @euske, I am very pleased that you like my game !!

Thank you very much for playing my game !!!!
I want to add features to the game to make it more strategic and more fun (with items/biomes…). And above all, I'm going to balance it so that beer becomes THE real problem !!!

Awesome submission! turns out we did a similar take on the theme :D

I got -383 before i decided im too good and stopped playing. Forgot to do a screenshot though :(

Wish there was more upgrades to the pickaxe, more things to buy, more things to find, etc. But we all know how game jams are, not enough time :(((

Hello, @BluePinStudio, Thank you for playing my game ! Yes, I saw that good work too, and yes, I will take my time to improve the game !

I was going to give up after 300 meters but I noticed the highscore. It was hard work to beat those mysterious strangers. Now my finger hurts….
Nice game, the music was chill and couldn't find any bugs. The shop was pretty confusing at first. Some text would have helped a lot. Good job!

BAHAAHAHAH
You take the first place GREAT JOB !!
Thank you very much @M2tias for playing !