Guide the cow through the minefield with an epic Pickaxe, smashing up the blocks as you go on your merry way.

You can Play "Give a Cow a Pickaxe" over at JSE

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Controls

- Left+Right
- Jump
- Thwack

You can break apart higher-value bricks, but they take more thwacking to smash.
Uncover the grass and munch it up to power up your pickaxe. You'll lose axe-power if you lose a life.
Smash 50% or more of the blocks to earn a star on the level.
There's oodles of sleepy foxes in the mine, so be sure to smash them with your axe before they attack you.

What I Didn't Do

Let's dig (with a pickaxe) through Michael Fernie's original concept.

COW CRAFT MINER
Change : Name has been changed to protect the innocent.

You are a cow. You have a pickaxe. You also have a weapon.
Simplify : The cow doesn't have a weapon. The pickaxe is sharp enough.

The game level is a maze and is made of blocks of different types of materials
Simplify : It's not so much of a maze any more. Nor are there many materials. Just boxes and bits of grass.

You mine the blocks for resources. There are many types.
Simplify : The blocks are numbered, so you know immediately which you can smash.

Blocks have levels. Your pick axe can only mine blocks at its level.
As is : Numbers. Mmmmm!!!

Collect the resources to upgrade your pick axe.
As is : Leftover grass somehow upgrades your pickaxe!

This allows you to mine harder blocks and explore farther.
More or less : The further you go, the higher the level of blocks.

There are enemies you can fight with your weapon. You can die after 3 lives lost.
As is : Except the pickaxe, rather than the weapon.

Your weapon can be upgraded using resources.
This allows you to fight harder enemies.
Simplify : No weapon And all the enemies are the same difficulty.

Upgrades to the pickaxe and weapon require different materials and amounts as their levels go up.
Simplify : Only one type of grass, and no weapon to powerup. The powerup'ing is also very linear, as opposed to being exponential. But the fact that it reduces when you die seems to make things a bit more interesting.

Sometimes there locks. These can be opened using resources.
Lost : Um.. I forgot the locks..!

Goal is to escape the mine or maybe clear all the blocks in the level. Game over shows the count of each block type mined.
Simplify : The score is the %age of the blocks you've destroyed.
Smash over 50% to get the star on the calendar/select
Clear them all to win a level.

So.. Um..
What do you think of the result?
Let me know in the comments or the Discord

You can Play "Give a Cow a Pickaxe" over at JSE