Spade Invaders

We've dug too deeply and too greedily! Our underground gem harvesting operation has been overrun by strange lumbering rock beasts.  You've been sent to deal with the beasts that have invaded our company operations and bring back as many gems as you can. 

With your trusty shovel (and more weapons), do your best to dive down into the depths repeatedly, each time grabbing as many gems as you can before being whisked back up to the surface where you can upgrade yourself to make subsequent dives into the depths easier. 

The depths are procedurally generated (ish), and you'll spawn at different points and get a different experience each time. Sometimes, some paths will be accessible and other times, they won't. Sometimes, there will be rewards... and at other times, ambushes! Be on your guard!

NOTE:

Spade Invaders was built for LD57. The majority of it was done during the 3-day Compo, but due to a confluence of issues (family, sickness, etc), the project was then moved to the Extra category to try to finalize some bug fixes/sound effects/ui polish but adding no new content.

Basically -- this is a jam game. Things aren't perfectly balanced and there's missing bits that we'll try to polish soon.