Ludum Dare #19compo

The Jelly Caves

by darkhogg

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.21

Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.58

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★2.47

Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.63

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.32

Audio★★★★★★★★★★2.63

Humor★★★★★★★★★★2.54

Community★★★★★★★★★★3.31

Coolness★★★★★★★★★★4%

You are in a cave, a cave full of living jelly monsters that will make you suffer while you get a lot of treasures!

Your objective is to make money without dying! Dig through the walls, go deeper in the cave, and kill jelly!!

Instructions in the webpage, I'll link to the source once it's complete.

PS: The game have some "special" treasures, can you find them all?

Comments17

thristhart19 Dec 2010, 23:26

Those damn blue jellies. *shakes fist*

hsmith20 Dec 2010, 07:08

I loved this!

gwil20 Dec 2010, 14:22

2D minecraft :D

joekinley20 Dec 2010, 22:11

Nice game. Decent graphics and ... well... damn you those blue jellies. They keep shooting and you just can't kill them. Also these red jellies are making me crazy... fun game.

Danik20 Dec 2010, 22:31

Solid and fun!

Darkhoggauthor20 Dec 2010, 22:40

Hm... should I slow down those red jellies?? or make the blue ones shoot slower??
Anyway, thanks a lot! I'm glad you're enjoying it. BTW, I will upload a timelapse video soon, so stay tuned :D

wizbane21 Dec 2010, 03:27

Nice game, sometimes red jellies seem to push you inside a wall. I think the speed of the red/blue jellies is fine, it makes it a pretty frantic game when you're running from a bunch of red jellies!

Grungi Ankhfire21 Dec 2010, 22:12

Excellent ! Feels very tense, even though it can be 'cheated' a bit by leaving c and v pressed all the time. Pretty crazy when ble jellies shoot are you while you're surrounded by red ones !

Sos22 Dec 2010, 00:23

I found a dollar, it was worth $1! haha :P Cool!

danblack22 Dec 2010, 15:59

Good solid game, expecially for only 48 hours. I liked the digging, it gave me a nice sense of exploration and discovery.

Darkhoggauthor22 Dec 2010, 16:58

Fixed enemies pushing you to a wall :P

stevejohnson27 Dec 2010, 05:26

Movement was very jerky, but I liked the random caves and the general feel of the game. However I wish I had a way to replenish my rocks.

Darkhoggauthor27 Dec 2010, 18:27

@stevejohnson You have, you just have to dig through walls.

philomory28 Dec 2010, 03:48

Wouldn't run :( Java starts to load, then nothing. Will hold off on rating until I try it on another computer.

philomory28 Dec 2010, 09:13

Tried it on another machine, and it's a pretty fun game! It gets pretty dang hard after the first floor, though. Perhaps don't introduce the blue jellies quite so quickly, and introduce the red jellies more gradually?

Endurion31 Dec 2010, 15:36

Not bad. I really like the generated caves. It makes them fun to dig around and find new rooms.
However I was not able to find the stairs down from the 2nd level. The level is huuge.