Ludum Dare #52compo

Cave Flowers

by tk-dev

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.12

Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.23

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.21

Theme★★★★★★★★★★2.82

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.02

Humor★★★★★★★★★★2.44

Mood★★★★★★★★★★2.60

A Very, very short game I whipped up. You play as a Cube exploring a cartoony cave and harvesting flowers which give you access to a double jump and ammo for a shotgun. You maneuver around platforming levels using your shotgun for mobility

This game is unfinished, as I had to cut it short. There were quite a few planned features that I just couldn't quite squeeze in, but the game is playable and has a level timer so I suppose you could get some replay value from speed running those levels, if you really wanted.

Tags: #2d, #cartoon, #singleplayer, #unity

Genres: platformer

Tools: Unity

Comments15

Nodle8 Jan 2023, 22:17

Awesome game! Like the level work and game play is very responsive....

LDJam user 3133269 Jan 2023, 00:02

Good game, would be interesting to see something like this fleshed out in a fast pace sort of way.

SupBanana9 Jan 2023, 03:42

Game looks great and gameplay is very fun, but it really lacks sound. Nice harvest animation tho

Rob65669 Jan 2023, 12:20

Love the look and feel of this. Some nice mechanics, and the difficulty seemed about right (although a bit tougher for me, testing on a track-pad).

benskca9 Jan 2023, 21:36

This game is HARD it was really satisfying when I finally finished it :smile:

It took me a little bit to get used to the jump adding speed, but once I got the hang of it it was very satisfying using my jumps and shots really quickly and building up a tonne of speed. The level design is really good too, it's cool how you make the player re-use the jump pad on the last level.

thejan1410 Jan 2023, 13:30

The jumping is very smooth and rewarding once you figure it out! The levels are well designed but I wished for some checkpoints so I dont have to do everything all over again. Solid work!

VaizAragorn10 Jan 2023, 19:27

The idea of harvesting your every mechanic was pretty nice. Controls felt weird for a platformer tho. After getting used to them i was able play it properly. Good job!

Tk_Devauthor10 Jan 2023, 23:17

@vaizaragorn The controls probably feel weird because they're physics-based, and therefore less snappy than some other games, but nice to hear that wasn't too much of a hinderance.

Tk_Devauthor10 Jan 2023, 23:25

@rob6566 yeah it's definitely a game built for keyboard and mouse. Props to you for beating it without it, though!

tyin12 Jan 2023, 01:04

The first platform confused me a lot because I don't know how to jump to the highest point using double jump. But after some tries, it comes to me that speed is superimposed. Then everything become easy. In a sense, That's really a good design.

bentglasstube13 Jan 2023, 00:04

This is a solid platformer with a unique momentum implementation for the double jumps. As others said it took a bit to understand how to jump high, but it was fun after I figured it out. Nice work.

Pincushion13 Jan 2023, 00:34

This game doesn't feel unfinished for a jam. It's complete with a good tutorial and a nicely tuned level. It has a cute look, and the controls felt pretty good. The double jumps took getting used to. I didn't expect that jumping in quick succession would launch me so much farther than two slower jump presses.

She Wrote13 Jan 2023, 11:02

The momentum of the jumps is really cool, the flowers are cute. I like it! Well done!

island-jam-2-group-316 Jan 2023, 22:29

Didn't know that the time between space presses were importan for the jump high until I red the comments ^^U and even so I couldn't pass the first level xD Not sure why it didn't jump at all sometimes either. I loved the simple but cute graphics though ;-)

Veelivar18 Jan 2023, 05:14

Prefacing with I am horrendous at this game, and platformers in general.

That said, the graphics are clean, the tutorial was appreciated, and after I spent far too long figuring out how the double jump worked, felt pretty accomplished.