Corrupted Caverns

by kaya-games

co-authored: @jell-0o

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.42

Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.18

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.05

Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.71

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.76

Audio★★★★★★★★★★3.63

Humor★★★★★★★★★★2.42

Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.40

Delay the inevitable corruption to get enough resources to escape from the caverns. Sacrifice your tools to an energy converter to get energy to power beacons, the only way to prevent the spread of corruption.

If you're confused on how the game works, here are a few quick things to help out:

- Place objects by right click on empty ground while having that item selected in your inventory
- Put things into the furnace or energy converter by dragging and dropping the item from your inventory into the slot above the furnace or energy converter
- The energy converter only accepts tools (shields, swords, & drills)
- Furnaces only smelt ore
- Put shields into your shield slot
- Beacons only affect a certain radius around themselves
- Fight enemies by clicking on them when they're nearby

Post-Submission Bugfixes:
- Corruption was spreading faster than expected, spread tick has been adjusted
- Enemy projectile was scaled incorrectly, now fixed

Comments13

Rainsong9 Apr 2022, 19:27

Good story idea; nice graphics (solid pixel art skills).

alks9 Apr 2022, 19:34

Nice work! concept is good and addicting! Controls feel really good and the art nice! Thank you for this!!

DS Nahogara9 Apr 2022, 19:36

This game is pretty dope! The way you can do things and how interactive it is! This is one of the most playable games in this jam, fantastic work! :v:

snesgaard9 Apr 2022, 19:41

Nice looking game! Not sure if buggy or just me who doesn't understand the controls, but ran in to a couple of cases were I would pick items (e.g. the torch at the start), and wouldn't be able to place them down again.

Nikl9 Apr 2022, 19:53

This was fun to play! It took me two tries to actualy get to produce energy, but then I could at least manage to survive for a couple minutes ^^

I couldn't figure out how to get the next kind of metal. Is it possible?

Nice art and relaxing music. Well done!

Itskdog9 Apr 2022, 19:55

Good little crafting game. Some of the resources looked a little too similar. Maybe some text to let the user know what each item is. Good job!

AnimalX9 Apr 2022, 20:25

Cool crafting game! Took me a bit to figure out the controls but ended up working it out, mainly placing objects didn't click initially. Nice tutorial at the start though, would be cool to stop the timers ticking down while the tutorial screens are up but not allow the player to progress yet. Loved the music and atmosphere you created too! Great entry :)

DKMK1009 Apr 2022, 23:07

Pretty cool game, although either I don't understand how to play or the difficulty is quite high. I'm building stuff, but there doesn't seem to be enough ore to progress very far in the tech tree even before factoring in sacrifices...

MasterOfCheese19 Apr 2022, 03:57

Really crazy this was made in such a short time, nice job with the crafting and mining, I was unable to progress through the whole crafting tree, I'm interested to see what would happen

Reulan19 Apr 2022, 06:27

this game has so much potential given it's current complexity and nuance involved in the crafting. really good baseline for a survival, crafting, gathering and exploration game

Evan Minto21 Apr 2022, 05:23

The controls seem kind of broken for me? I can’t progress very far because it won’t seem to let me place any items. Right clicking an empty space doesn’t do anything and left clicking just mines the nearest block. It SEEMS like there’s some interesting depth here but unfortunately I can’t seem to access it.

Kaya Gamesauthor21 Apr 2022, 14:41

@evan-minto There can be a few reasons for that. You can't place or mine when your inventory is open, left click is supposed to mine the nearest block, and right clicking only works if you're holding something and there is no block or entity there (including the player). Also make sure you're not trying to drag and drop as a lot of people assumed that's how things are placed. We'll hopefully have something a bit clearer and more intuitive in a post jam version. Hopefully that clears it up!

Kaya Gamesauthor21 Apr 2022, 14:49

@evan-minto It's also possible that if you're on mac or linux that those versions are broken since we never tested them