Caves and Ropes

by juanv
co-authored: @jjoosef17
Overall★★★★★★★★★★2.90
Fun★★★★★★★★★★2.65
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.05
Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.92
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.15
Audio★★★★★★★★★★3.30
Humor★★★★★★★★★★1.78
Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.74
You need to found it, your only option... Go deeper and Deeper!

What you have to do is going down with your only Friend, the _rope_. Beware of the cave it is deep and dark, you'll have to avoid the dangerous rocks and stay alive.

CONTROLS:
- W S = move up and down with your _rope_
- A D = move left and move right
- F = Turn on Flashlight
- Space = Jump in the cave
- E = Create new _rope_
- R = destroy _rope_
Tools: Unity

Comments12

LDJam user 252856
LDJam user 25285629 Apr 2021, 22:28
Not quite sure what happened. Ropes were pretty funny though.
Ryan Dotsikas
Ryan Dotsikas29 Apr 2021, 22:33
This was fun and interesting. I like the moody atmosphere with the music and the lack of light. At the start when you said to press R I didnt know I was supposed to swing and then press R so I just dropped the rope and fell but then was stuck so I had to reload the page. Overall though nice job!
Lery29 Apr 2021, 22:36
On my first trial, I missed the left tunnel where it says "press R to leave rope" and I think I landed at the bottom right, but I didn't die or so, instead I was stuck and could just turn on my flashlight and then couldn't do nothing. The camera also didn't follow me there somehow. I got it correctly on my second trial. It is best to light up your flashlight asap, I guess. Also the pace was a bit slow at times, I would have loved sliding down way faster.
But good work, and many thanks for the WebGL build, it's much better with one.
Pilarius29 Apr 2021, 22:40
the game looked promissing from the mood and exploration aspect, sadly it kept bugging out the moment when I left the rope for the first time so I couldnt continue
AFlatThrasher29 Apr 2021, 22:46
Well that was interesting. You probably want the reminder that the flashlight exists a little earlier (I left the rope, then was sitting in the dark confused until I remembered the flashlight, only to see the reminder in the next level). Felt a lot like I imagine it does down deep in a cave, though. I think you captured that feeling pretty well, so good job!
frompdx
frompdx29 Apr 2021, 22:47
Pretty neat concept. I like the rope animation and general atmosphere. I felt like it was tricky to get to the cave where the instructions "press r to leave rope" appear. The first time I just pressed r and fell to my death.
stewthepoo
stewthepoo3 May 2021, 18:14
Legit awesome. I could easily imagine a full game like this. Great job on the rope physics and the visuals!
Hidjy6 May 2021, 13:46
The implementation isn't perfect, but the mood is spot on!

I could be great with some little dead ends, climbing, perilous precision swing'n'drop, and maybe rope reusing and management :)
Neowedge
Neowedge15 May 2021, 21:04
Great ambient, but very short game! Controls could be better, but it was a nice experience, congrats!
lilkrit17 May 2021, 00:01
Very good game except for a bit janky controls. If you can fix that, I would love to play again!
Jordan Ottesen
Jordan Ottesen17 May 2021, 06:59
I'm a big fan of the physics behind the rope. Nice work on that! I think there's so much to explore in game level designs built around that repelling mechanic. Would be excited to see a game built in more detail related to that.

Something sort of funny, I found this game was easier to beat if I just let go of the rope and rebuilt it over and over again by pressing R and E repetitively.
Gucio Miszcz17 May 2021, 07:34
Awesome looking game with mechanics working perfectly. Music was really nice, gave it a little mood. The only thing that I had problem with was too dark screen on first rope release - I could not see anything because of my monitor settings.

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