Flower Finder

Overall★★★★★★★★★★4.00
Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.72
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.75
Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.64
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.61
Audio★★★★★★★★★★3.69
Procedural caves plus gameplay quirks form a short 2d platformer that never repeats! Gameplay gets deeper after screen 5, so keep playing!

​Retrisma's submission for Ludum Dare 48: Deeper and Deeper.
All art, code, and music made by Retrisma 2021.
Please comment below with feedback!

Controls:

Arrow keys to move. Z to jump or walljump.

Comments11

PirateHearts
PirateHearts26 Apr 2021, 06:31
Really great use (and reuse) of mechanics here!
Listonos
Listonos26 Apr 2021, 10:26
Very clean art and cool music. A simple platformer but the random generation works awesome and the effect of building the level is really neat.
NoCymer26 Apr 2021, 10:30
Really funny to play, love the procedural generation system, well done
LDJam user 240168
LDJam user 24016826 Apr 2021, 10:31
Incredible game! Loved how it slowly got more difficult, reached room 11 with score 14. Those spikes - I initially thought they are a new type of flower and jumped directly on them :D The boulders felt a little harsh but still fun. One thing I noticed was that even though I was constantly dying and restarting without any progress, the boulders frequency was advancing fiercely, as if it didn't take into account that I wasn't making progress. Not sure if that's a bug, but difficulty should probably be dependent on your progress?
Anyways, loved the game, great job!
fixxel
fixxel26 Apr 2021, 11:56
I noticed that sometimes I get dropped several rooms by dying once & dying doesn't penalize score, you could stay in one room and get as much score as you like, intentional? still, nice compact game.

Also neat that you get to see level generation! I spawned several times atop spikes haha :D
thesnide
thesnide26 Apr 2021, 18:53
Procedural generation is awesome. And the way that you used that as a gimmick on level load is very clever!
John Gabriel
John Gabriel26 Apr 2021, 20:09
Procedural generation in a PICO-8 game? Wow! I had fun with this one, though admittedly I ducked out after seeing that the mechanics were coming back in sets of two. About the only criticism I can give is that the walljumping was pretty tricky to do right.
Zohar17 May 2021, 15:08
Really nice game! I like the way the map generates. Bug: whenever you die and press x to retry it sends you back to room 6.
kuviman
kuviman18 May 2021, 12:06
Got to level 25 and got stuck in a corner. Nice variety of mechanics in the game but it is a bit too simple I think
jusw8518 May 2021, 13:07
This is a very well made entry. Good job!
8BitCharlie
8BitCharlie18 May 2021, 13:12
This is really cool. I've had hard time to stop playing. :)

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