Welcome to Digging Dudes

[alpha testing]!

Quick notice:

Testing before Steam release, so starting out small on itch.io, perhaps someone finds the game playable enough already, however profiles may be reset, corrupted or outdated with frequent updates.

Comment if you have some suggestions, steam page is coming soon!

Discord - Digging Dudes

What is this game?

It's a digging simulator, with dudes - pretty self-explanatory.

Start off small, a dude and his bare hands, dig and explore the world, buy upgrades, level up dudes, customize and finally ascend for a deeper world, to make the world deeper, unlock ascension upgrades, and continue your journey down!

Roadmap direction:

• Bombs
• Events
• Minimap
• Frozen biome, ore - done

• Cave plants, one interactable for revealing area around - done
• DeepStone layer, ore variants - partially released now!
• Ascension skill tree expansion and balance
• More optimization for large and busy worlds
• Digging and running animations updated!
• More animation updates and polish
• more ...

Screenshots from latest version:

The game is subject to change and can look different in the launch version.

V0.1.6:

Updated ascension tree and screen controls:

Ice biome will remain unspoiled so you can go explore it.

So will plants, but here are the Dude animations:

   

And the difference between old walk and new walk animations:

  

V0.1.5:

Updated dude tooltips:

New torches, and tooltips with hardness:

Torch animation v1:

Credits:

Made the game through countless of previous attempts to develop and publish, and finally thanks to some encouragement and help with testing we're finally here!

The whole idea for the game came to me as I saw Brysiaa's "Simple Human Character" sprite - thought it's so neat and just has to be in a diggy game!

Could not have made the game without the help of these assets:

Graphics:

• https://brysiaa.itch.io/pixel-simple-human-character-16x16-px - Dude's initial assets, tweaked
• https://verysmallsquares.itch.io/free-16-bit-ores-sprite-sheet - Ores, tweaked
• https://ninjikin.itch.io/trees - Trees, originals
• https://srblackrave.itch.io/2d-pixel-art-semi-realistic-clouds - Clouds, originals
• https://crusenho.itch.io/icons-essential-pack-free-icons - UI Icons, mostly originals

Sounds:

• Free license sounds used, subject to change.