Ludum Dare #54compo

Cave Crawl

by jellycopter

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.33

Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.17

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.53

Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.54

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.33

Audio★★★★★★★★★★2.33

Humor★★★★★★★★★★3.84

Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.43

Crawl to the secret graffiti cave!

Gather 5 paint cans to open the door.

Click and drag hands and feet to move. Slippery surfaces and stalactites can't be grabbed. Lava is bad.

Press "R" to return to your last flag.

Escape to Quit.

--Edit : Oct 4
For better playability I've updated some of the graphics layers and collisions. The recommended version to play this game is CaveCrawl1.1.exe! It is available as a web playable game on itch.io, however there are some GMS2 related bugs with textures sometimes! Feel free to play CaveCrawl.exe for the authentic COMPO version.

Have Fun!

Tags: #singleplayer

Genres: adventure, platformer

Tools: GameMaker

Comments22

LDJam user 3771162 Oct 2023, 19:39

Reminds me a lot of the QWOP climb game and ragdoll kung fu! well done!

Blaasen2 Oct 2023, 20:11

The art and subtle animations on the player are fantastic and feel great to play around with, super fun! Slight pain point was that I kept clicking around to find my joints, but perhaps that will become easier with time.

rodvik2 Oct 2023, 20:12

fun nicely done!

Shad2 Oct 2023, 20:20

"QWOP" meets "Frog Climbers" :)
Sometimes it's hard to find where the limbs are, and it's hard to move them

cheesepencil3 Oct 2023, 01:33

I struggled to find my feet and hands as my body became a jumble of limbs several times, but it's funny!

LDJam user 2778763 Oct 2023, 01:41

I like the idea, but I unfortunately kept clipping a limb or torso into one of the walls during the first crawl section and wasn't able to progress :(. Working with what I managed to do, the mood is set very nicely with the aggressive breathing, and the main player just looks so jolly with it's human face plaster upon it. I enjoyed your work and wish I could have seen more. Best of luck!

LDJam user 2374133 Oct 2023, 03:15

Haha this reminds me of QWOP so much!
Very fun, but had a hard time selecting some limbs.
Maybe a keyboard shortcut would have worked.
Nice one!

LDJam user 1425583 Oct 2023, 04:53

Nice and silly QWOP-ish game! Movement feels nice but sometimes the hands/feet get stuck and become hard to click

goddzeproject3 Oct 2023, 06:00

Oh, very interesting controls, there is a little inconvenience in this, but in general, if you get used to the behavior of the body, you can go through the levels quite quickly.

HangoverGames3 Oct 2023, 11:35

I was never able to climb the left wall, but the character and idea are simply charming!
I'd like some music to keep the atmosphere going

Zirrrus3 Oct 2023, 12:54

Really fun idea and has a great unique look. But I couldn't get the hang of it - got stuck getting through the small tunnel at the start.

CaptainDreamcast3 Oct 2023, 13:20

Very funny game! Love the face and how silly the movement through the cave can get. I think the ambience also really captures that cave exploration feeling. Great job!

lostcyclop3 Oct 2023, 19:27

As someone who loves climbing in real life, I was instantly interested in this game. It was super fun, but one thing that could have been improved is the visibility of clickable body elements and feedback to confirm if they actually sticked. I spent a lot of time trying to click on those legs :D Good job and congrats!

LDJam user 3133264 Oct 2023, 01:02

Pretty fun game with unique graphics. interesting concept, and it portrays the theme well.

PerfectSquare4 Oct 2023, 02:10

Interesting take on the theme, it definitely felt like "limited space" when I had the poor guy crunched into a tunnel with his arms and legs all facing the wrong ways :sweat_smile: As some people have already mentioned I did have some times where hands/feet would get stuck and be hard to find/click on.

Furtive Pygmy5 Oct 2023, 00:09

Great entry, a lot of fun and very "QWOP" which I enjoyed.
Lots of fun to play, a bit of music would have added to the atmosphere but I was invested either way as I enjoy these ragdoll-like games.

LDJam user 3720855 Oct 2023, 19:06

funny concept! i had a really hard time playing - it seemed like the hitboxes for grabbing the hands/feet was very small and i often had trouble getting a hold of them.

LDJam user 2800365 Oct 2023, 19:37

help

this was funny, good entry :smile:

DiscoFish6 Oct 2023, 10:59

What a funny game! Nice art style also. Great job!

kuggenhoffen6 Oct 2023, 14:19

Pretty interesting game. Would be super funny if the face changed when squeezing through small gaps :D Also I think I somehow managed to turn the caver inside out:

Well done on the game!

LDJam user 3524906 Oct 2023, 23:35

It's awesome and hilarious how glitchy and janky this is to control. I got a little (or a lot) stuck a couple minutes in:

seurimas9 Oct 2023, 03:52

This man has a bad case of boneitis! Sadly, the textures started to get corrupted halfway through and it became unplayable a bit after that. Still, the controls are pretty sensible (even if ridiculous by design) once you get used to them. Well done!

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