Cave Diver

Overall★★★★★★★★★★2.95
Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.40
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★2.25
Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.60
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★2.80
Audio★★★★★★★★★★2.03
Humor★★★★★★★★★★2.62
Mood★★★★★★★★★★2.50
A game about diving into the depths of a cave. Oh my god why would anyone do this irl?
Tags: #pico-8
Genres: action
Tools: PICO-8

Comments14

SYPIAC7 Apr 2025, 06:09
Got 2813!
yohadams7 Apr 2025, 07:07
Nice simple game
LDJam user 2385007 Apr 2025, 07:56
Cave Diver aka. Blink And You're Dead!
Simple fun. Got 8413!
psychomonster
psychomonster7 Apr 2025, 08:31
My score was 5801.

Nice little game. I like pico8 game a lot. Nice highscore feature.
LDJam user 52438 Apr 2025, 09:51
Fun little game. The boot sound of pico8 makes me what to try using it during ld58 :D
LDJam user 385997
LDJam user 38599710 Apr 2025, 07:49
Fun game - impressive for just 14–16 hours of work! I was surprised to find that the cave actually has a bottom :smile:
j_rara
j_rara19 Apr 2025, 11:15
I like the random generation of caves, but that made the difficulty somewhat luck of the draw. My best run was 8221 but that only happened because the cave generated wasn't too difficult. I think to make this game more competitive (if that was a goal) would be to have a bit more control over the random generation. So near the beginning things start off wide and as you get deeper the passage becomes more narrow.

Overall simple and effective game design. Good job!
Asieke
Asieke21 Apr 2025, 05:03
Simple and sweet. Only real note is it'd be nice to only have to press the button once to restart instead of twice (once on end screen and once on game start)
LDJam user 243193
LDJam user 24319321 Apr 2025, 08:10
Nice diving game! I wish the game would start with wider hole then gradually get narrower and narrower.
deformhead
deformhead21 Apr 2025, 13:11
Well done! :clap:

Simple, yet very effective!

SCORES :

High score 888 :sunglasses:

I pushed few tries again, over 2000, but after that, the RNG was a little bit unbalanced :cry:
ChuChuGeralt
ChuChuGeralt21 Apr 2025, 21:26
Beat it!

So apparently 10109 is the highest score yyou can get, since you...found the bottom of the pit at that point!

Given your short time to create the entry, its pretty fun!
freamdev
freamdev22 Apr 2025, 05:41
Pretty nice entry, always suprieses me how people can make something simple and yet fun.

Tried to get to the bottom but kind of got frustrated at the random level generation when sometimes I got nice wide caves all the way up to 3k score and sometimes I got the narrowest corridor known to man at sub 500 scores. Maybe some more constraint on when the cave starts to get narrower so I had a sense of progression?

All in all nice entry :smiley:

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