The Cave In

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.38
Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.43
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★2.98
Theme★★★★★★★★★★4.21
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★2.74
Audio★★★★★★★★★★2.83
Humor★★★★★★★★★★2.31
Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.02
Finding yourself trapped in a small mine shaft deep below the surface, you realise you don't have much time. The ceiling is starting to collapse making this small room even smaller. You are running out of space and need to do something.

You realize you can use the <Arrow Keys> to Move around the cave, and even push the boulders around.

You had heard tales of this magical cave and its powers to make things disappear, perhaps I am the caves next victim and I will disappear. No, Let's stay positive. The tale mentioned something about if 4 boulders are perfectly aligned in a row they will vanish right before your eyes. Although not every boulder will work the same way.

In a burst of self-motivating monologue, you remind yourself that someone will come for you, You just need to survive long enough. Even if they can't get down to you right away, they may be able to assist with dynamite!


Some Goals For My First LDJam


- [x] Complete an actual game
- [x] Create art that is not just a white square (using a new free-to-use online tool, stay away from photoshop)
- [x] Include background music (learn how to make music)
- [x] Include sound effects (learn how to make sound effects)
- [x] Save high score data - persist
- [x] Write a backstory
- [ ] Record Dialogue
- [ ] Create a bunch of different boulder types (only got to two, wanted more)

Tools Used:


- Unity 2018.2.3f1
- https://www.pixilart.com - For the art
- Bosca Ceoil - for the music
- Bfxr - for the sound effects

Github Source Code


https://github.com/JElbourne/LudumDare42

screenshot
Genres: survival

Comments18

p1nkmaria12 Aug 2018, 20:44
this game is pretty cool :) I had fun while playing! Good job.
Jay Elbourne
Jay Elbourneauthor12 Aug 2018, 22:46
@p1nkmaria thank you so much for the comment. Appreciate it. It was a fun event.
Eric Kulbiej13 Aug 2018, 00:15
I like the gameplay aspect. The graphical style could be more organised (when it comes to text) but overall I see potential. Keep it up!
Viater13 Aug 2018, 01:17
This game was cool! I thought the story was interesting and the gameplay was fun. Great Work!
snakemuho
snakemuho13 Aug 2018, 01:28
I actually started panicking at some point. Good job with that! Could be an even cooler game with different layouts and story progressing.
Lerc13 Aug 2018, 23:44
I got 378. Good concept. Fun to play. Might need some tweaking on the time curve. I feel it starts too slowly and accelerates too quickly. That's someting you can only realy figure out with lots of playtesing though.
jchaplin14 Aug 2018, 00:05
Very fun game... great idea! Found myself hoping for the bombs toward the end to help get me free.
Joe Miller
Joe Miller14 Aug 2018, 00:58
Nice entry! I liked the idea of doing a match game but with top down movement to push the blocks, interesting blend
Luis Giron
Luis Giron14 Aug 2018, 01:40
199 points :laughing: Great entry! you had a very creative idea, the gameplay is too funny, only needs more polish on the graphics, but meh, the game is awesome in general.
Yukki14 Aug 2018, 04:06
My best was 220. A fun short game. kudos.
GreenBoxGames
GreenBoxGames14 Aug 2018, 04:07
This was fun to play. After a while though the blocks just started auto completing themselves. Other then that the game was great!
Dark Roast Studios14 Aug 2018, 07:42
Despite simple graphics I really got a sense of clostrophobia from this game, greate for the theme! Fun quick game, nice job
TomekS14 Aug 2018, 07:51
fun to play especially with higher speed. I was buried alive in the end :(. Nice story behind. good stuff. The final score is a bit higher than my max score after i died by bomb, I guess what it destroyed didn't count to my max.
Suchista
Suchista15 Aug 2018, 17:42
That was fun! It reminds me of a game with balls with numbers... I dont't remember the title. Either way, great oldschool sfuff! :) I had 238 points
neowhoru
neowhoru15 Aug 2018, 21:28
Cool Innovative Game Idea - Tetris meets Sokoban. Loved the gameplay.
Nice game.
Sublustris
Sublustris17 Aug 2018, 06:09
Looks really cool! well done!
pierallard17 Aug 2018, 06:48
Nice entry!
Was fun to play. Several times to improve!
Maybe the difficulty should be more balanced, at the beginning it's easy, then it becomes hardcore very soon.
RiptideStudio
RiptideStudio20 Aug 2018, 16:14
Fun and nice, but I wish movement would be more smooth. And more animations at all, I don't like when objects "teleports" from one tile to another. But it's pretty good game, good job!

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