Cave Explorer

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.06
Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.09
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★2.25
Theme★★★★★★★★★★1.76
Mood★★★★★★★★★★2.94
Coolness★★★★★★★★★★71%
Cave Explorer is a small roguelike game. You play a character that tries to get as deep as possible into the caves without dying.

Fight your way to the deepest levels of the procedurally generated caves. Make sure that you don't die; you will have to start again!

Unfortunately I didn't have enough time to add more content like weapons or enemies. I might expand this game Post-LD though.

Edit: Thank you, @TheMightyTeam. Tested game on Linux using Wine.
Genres: adventure

Comments19

oskardevelopment12 Dec 2016, 20:12
The game looked great and with a nice mood! I loved the intro menu and how it was integrated into the game! That was awesome! I went down a few levels, but I didn't find any more weaponries than the sword you start out with? Could I upgrade myself, or was the goal mainly to collect rubies and go as deep down as possible?
TheMightyTeam12 Dec 2016, 20:26
Great game. I like the sprites and the procedural mazes work great. How did you make them? It works in Linux using Wine.
RedPanda
RedPanda12 Dec 2016, 20:28
How does this tie in with the "One Room" theme?
paradxil12 Dec 2016, 21:05
Looks very nice and was fun to play. The levels were great. I wish there was some music or something in the background though.
darthdeus
darthdeus13 Dec 2016, 16:00
Looks awesome. I wish my game looked half as good as yours.

What tools did you use to create this?
Tonasz13 Dec 2016, 16:06
I can't believe such simple game gave me so much fun and that skeleton's "stupidy" is an actual mechanic :)
zeoxo
zeoxo13 Dec 2016, 16:10
Really clean and smooth game play! Loved the art, only thing it might need is more enemies and some music!
RttStudio
RttStudio13 Dec 2016, 17:10
Game is pretty good in general.

Would require more refining, but the main idea is nice.
skorpyo13 Dec 2016, 17:23
Very pleasant gameplay and graphics. Great and accurate job. I sense good experience from author :)
MentaL1313 Dec 2016, 20:19
Goog game idea but gets boring pretty fast. It could be a little bit more faster imo
Kuality Games13 Dec 2016, 22:11
I like how you used implementation of procedural levels, the choice of going for a more simplistic style was also good. Although for me it really lacked some juiciness to keep it fun for a longer period of time.
Splendidus
Splendidus16 Dec 2016, 19:24
Quality implementation. Good idea. Continue to work on the project - will be a good game! )
Volcanic Giraffe16 Dec 2016, 19:37
Nice art feeling, shame you didn't include graphics category. Great level generation too. I was scoring it mostly as a roguelike/adventure foundation, so I'm ok with the content amount. Minimap and some sounds would be great(it's usually worth to neglect some graphics polishing to add at least very minimal sound effects, at least in LD). Keep up the good job.
Yvanor
Yvanor16 Dec 2016, 19:38
Good game, well polished and the level generation is great. I would have appreciated more content like more weapons or more enemies, but I guess it's a lack of time.. Well done !
rburema
rburema17 Dec 2016, 00:18
A little tweak to the skellies would make this more challenging, which I think it may need? Consider a ranged attack for example.
tinyworlds
tinyworlds17 Dec 2016, 23:36
Cool little rogue-like! Loved the background graphics of this :)

The fighting system was pretty basic imo, really just mashing a button at the right time. Maybe just having an additional ranged weapon and enemies with ranged attacks would have added more variety. I also discovered you can play the whole game without ever attacking anyone, simply outrunning them, which is nice.

The character animations were really nice. I feel like the characters could have used some simple shading, as used in the background, to link it better together.

Also music! As3sfxr would have been good enough to create some sound effects :) And maybe even try autotracker for the music.

All in all a cool little roguelike with really nice background graphics and animations!
sP0CkEr219 Dec 2016, 17:07
classic - but not sure it fits the theme. nice entry.
Cole and Jordan Studios
Cole and Jordan Studios1 Jan 2017, 01:27
Nice game, I agree with other comments that a little more content would be nice but overall pretty fun game

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