Ninja Spelunker

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.35
Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.41
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★2.98
Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.35
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.49
Audio★★★★★★★★★★2.10
Humor★★★★★★★★★★2.77
Community★★★★★★★★★★3.13
Coolness★★★★★★★★★★52%
A game about a ninja running through underground caverns. Controlled with just mouse movement. You Run! Fast! And Dodge! and Attack!

This was an awesome weekend! Thanks so much to the organizers for running this awesome event!

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Comments28

Cool game. I think the fun factor would increase exponentially though if you included more enemies. Simply quadrupling the amount of enemies would make it really hectic and fun (and a simple combo system would be the icing on the cake).
afterthought
Progress could be shown with a bar, and the text popups moved to the side. Fun, nice cave wall texture.
shanecelis
Excellent game. I really wanted to beat it after a few go arounds. I liked the progress notification. And the speed up and twisting of the cave were really working. Very cool.
Nice graphics and gameplay, but that 'Progress:' sound needs to be replaced with something far less intrusive.
Nice concept, I enjoyed it. Quite short, you should've made a few more tunnels :). Otherwise very cool.
frosty
Very cool! Congrats on finishing. =)
Too easy (after I figured out I should dodge the boulders).
Could use some gravity so you have to plan ahead instead of just pointing where the player should move to.
Jacob
Really nice execution of the tunnel effect. Looks good. Actually pretty fun to play too!

Also, great timelapse. Thanks for sharing!
localcoder
Fun! Addictive. Cool tunnel effect.

I hate the sound that plays when you reach the next 10%... I like getting progress updates though.

It gets hard at the end - I died a lot after the 90% mark. But I couldn't let myself quit until I won, so well done.
Cool 3d effect. The twisting tunnels were really nice. The popup messages were nicely done as well.

I think you got the difficulty right. It was enough to get me to play a bunch of times until I finished it anyway.

A more distant horizon would have been nice for the faster parts, but I'm guessing that's a technical limitation.
Almost
the enemies look cool. Gameplay isn't too exciting, and sound is really annoying.
Kimau
Lots of fun. I HAD TO FINISH it.
Please add an option to turn off sound possibly I found it a bit annoying.
Quite a nice graphical effect you've achieved. The mouse control is sometimes a bit unintuitive, if you for example need to get to the other side of the tunnel really fast. Good job on having audio even though it's not that great-sounding. :D
noonat
FIVE ON COMMUNITY FOR INTERNET FIST BUMP ALONE!

Really fun! Great visuals, creative idea. It reminded me of that old GRIN game Ballistics.

I found the slow pace at the starting of the level to be frustrating. I would have liked to be able to opt in to running faster. A limited use jump would be cool, too, for those cases when you realize at the last minute you're about to slam into something.

The dinging sound really bothered me.
Nobody else seems to be complaining about this, but - if I move the mouse cursor outside the game (which happens very easily as you try to make fast moves), I lose control (and my life, most likely).
Endurion
Lubberly.
With ninjas you can never go wrong!

Beside the controls this is pretty perfect. Oh, and the enemies look like crystals, I was trying to dodge them as well.
mklee
The cave tunnel is very entrancing...

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Definitely my favourite entry (that I've played so far). Addictive, stylish, and - in a low-key way - very funny. YMM's suggestions are great, too.
nilsf
Quite addictive, I felt compelled to continue until I finished it.
I like that it has an end and there are indicators of just how close you were to finishing so you might as well try again for the 300th time (perhaps playing with a trackpad rather than a mouse makes it harder).
On the other hand I hated the sound.
Finally, having a rather wide variety of different messages when you kill an enemy was a very nice touch.
Very fun and nice-looking game. Ninjas in a cavern can't be bad =)
SpaceManiac
Awesome. Couldn't beat it, though I got up to 90% before ROCK'D
gadlor
haha. needs to be longer! that's pretty much my only complaint. and yeah, i guess keyboard based movement would be better, in my humble opinion...but that's about it :)
Very nice game.

It's a pity there is no way in flash to lock the mouse cursor in the window, otherwise you always loose focus when quickly trying to do a half turn.
i like this. the status updates seem a little unnecessary, but i like the rest of the text pop-ups (not just because i designed the font. i think this is the third game i've spotted it in).
Very cool graphics effect, but the text overlays get annoying because they block out the rocks I need to be dodging XD
Green Point
nice!

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