It's A Frickin' CAVE was my silly attempt at making an action-based roguelikeish thing in the 20+ hours I had after I scrapped my previous entry. It works pretty well but gets boring fast and is possibly hard to control.
I hope you enjoy!
Controls: S - attack/use D - pick up A - change the item at hand
Remember to click the screen before playing to set the focus!
Awesome little roguelike. The little fog of war turns this from good to great!
Everything fits really well together, fully realized little idea. Loved your timelapse as well. Can't believe you got this done after restarting in the middle. Guess I'll have to look at MMF :P
Excellent job, especially after a reboot! I'm thinking the collision with front facing walls could be a little closer, but other than that, you've got a really slick game.
Hmm, that's unfortunate, but I must say that it has been only twice or thrice that has happened to me. I'll look into it in case I release a post-compo version.
Zombies, Skeletons, Creepers... I've never played anything like it!!
Anyways, great game. I didn't get very far, but it was really fun, at least what I tried. The controls were really unique, it was good! I liked all the different types of potions. Sometimes winning was based on luck, but it was still fun, lots of variety.
I have seen some monsters outside the dungeon, but the game is very nice ans extremly fun to play. The action part is well tuned, feel like playing SNES Zelda :)
The movement seems smooth until the light source adjusts, and then the stuttering effect is out of sync. If it either moved a space at a time or smoothly, I'm sure it would look fine.
I like this game a lot. It would be more atmospheric with music however and I would have liked (instead of invincibility at the beginning) to just not have enemies spawned near me at the beginning.
The player sprite is really well made and the enemies have a good variety to them.
I like the attack sounds and the black corner tiles and brown palette, and the red fill when I die. But I died quickly, before I got cool toys to play with. I wasn't sure at first what determines when I get hit. I thought my timing was pretty good, but I must be missing some cue.
Very well done! Some parts are down to luck (the ghost is nasty when you're in a dead end with one HP left). The most annoying thing is the jerking light circle, please please make it move smooth.
Fixed the light circle and removed the ghost altogether. In case someone cares, you can play the in-progress updated version anytime at www.hempuli.com/rogue2.html
The helmet of numbness' blur effect makes the game VERY SLOW. At first I thought it was meant to be this way, but then I saw my CPU usage spike when I got it
A cute little game, though the difficulty seems a bit off in the beginning; also, on first play it performs well (though it degrades a bit as you explore more), but it really takes a dive when I start a new game, I have to refresh the page each time I die to keep it playable. Of course, that's not really the game's fault, I have only 5+ year old computers to play it on.
Anyway, good game. I didn't really discover anything, but maybe I didn't get deep enough.
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Everything fits really well together, fully realized little idea. Loved your timelapse as well. Can't believe you got this done after restarting in the middle. Guess I'll have to look at MMF :P
Twice, out of my first three games.
then i got about okay, got a welding mask. wasn't sure what it did. And I got killed by a rangeeeed monster nasty dude.
Anyways, great game. I didn't get very far, but it was really fun, at least what I tried. The controls were really unique, it was good! I liked all the different types of potions. Sometimes winning was based on luck, but it was still fun, lots of variety.
(If you want to do me a favor, review my game http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-19/?action=rate&uid=3484 ) Thanks!
Excellent execution, thank you for making this. :)
Very good presentation, graphics, and gameplay. Impressive how you did this after starting over once.
The player sprite is really well made and the enemies have a good variety to them.
CREEEPPEERRRRR!!!!
Some parts are down to luck (the ghost is nasty when you're in a dead end with one HP left).
The most annoying thing is the jerking light circle, please please make it move smooth.
In case someone cares, you can play the in-progress updated version anytime at www.hempuli.com/rogue2.html
Also impressed that you generated the game levels. That keeps it fresh.
Combat is fun and I love drawing the enemies into the spikes.
Even though it is a familiar genre, you made clever innovations to keep it fresh.
LD needs a bug tracker for the compo entries!
Anyway, good game. I didn't really discover anything, but maybe I didn't get deep enough.