NordLand Caves

by tukeque

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.75

Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.25

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.00

Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.25

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★4.00

Mood★★★★★★★★★★4.00

Help the citizens of NordLand by doing intricate platforming challenges and beating monsters in NordLand Caves! In this 2D platformer-shooter, you're guaranteed to have fun :smile_cat:
Try to beat it in the shortest time possible! Or get the most amount of money! Or collect the souls of the dead :skull:
SMALL GAMEPLAY CLIP (CHECK IT OUT) ----> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6_yrI89tdc

Tags: #difficult, #procedural generation, #shoot 'em up, #side scroller, #time attack

Genres: action, platformer

Comments4

Colisan15 Apr 2024, 14:55

Feels like a Spelunky :ok_hand:

Gameplay diversity among summons was pretty nice. I like the megaman-shooting bird =D

The level is huge, impressive work (although the side-by-side-rooms layering feels a bit too apparent)

I think that with a more defined incentive the game would be even better (maybe when you enter a level, pick an goal between "finish before X minutes", "earch X money" or "gather X souls"?)

Overall : nice compo game, well done for a first one! Keep up the good work!

koro.games16 Apr 2024, 07:21

Reminiscent of classic adventure games and a little noita vibes. A fun, engaging experience that definitely worth checking out!

emm31217 Apr 2024, 05:09

Love this game! I can see myself playing it in my free time with some more polishing!

cagibi18 Apr 2024, 16:15

Impressive for the compo! Personally I don't mind the lack of incentive or goal, in one run I'd collect money, in the next one I'd try to gather as many souls as possible, etc. :p

My only tiny criticism would be that when you die/pause/finish a level/etc, menu buttons don't have keyboard focus and since the gameplay is 100% on keyboard, I have to use the mouse only for that part. (you can do something like $Button.grab_focus() in Godot and voila it's fixed)