CAVE TO DOWN by kato

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made by kato for LD29 (JAM)
Use arrow keys to move
Space to dig
z to attack enemies

Special thanks to:
Bateria de jogos, for administering the event ludum dare gogogo!
Daniel Nascimento, for sending me a link to a website for creating the music of the game

Ratings

Coolness 75% 2
Overall(Jam) 2.78 608
Audio(Jam) 2.72 498
Fun(Jam) 2.77 492
Graphics(Jam) 2.95 534
Humor(Jam) 2.13 544
Innovation(Jam) 2.74 485
Mood(Jam) 2.43 656
Theme(Jam) 3.05 430

Feedback

bateriadejogos
28. Apr 2014 路 01:39 UTC
I like!!!!!
bateriadejogos
28. Apr 2014 路 01:39 UTC
Try this:
Make the game for Mobile!!! I see future for this game....
NuSan
28. Apr 2014 路 13:53 UTC
Cool game, a bit hard to survive
馃帳 kato
28. Apr 2014 路 17:25 UTC
Thanks to all
My idea was to be difficult
bentog
28. Apr 2014 路 23:16 UTC
Very difficult, indeed! The gameplay is simple, but the strategy to survive is not!
conno1234
01. May 2014 路 14:54 UTC
I was surprised at how long I ended up playing this game. It was very fun! Keep up the great work! ;)
SzRaPnEL
01. May 2014 路 15:23 UTC
Doing full circle makes all enemies one but 1 hit 1 death :D
Spoiler solution:
Going farest corner, w8 for enemies to come, run to other corner and open :)
I like it!
EpiphanyG
01. May 2014 路 15:34 UTC
Cute game! :)

I liked the graphics and the music was great. Where did you go to create the music?
byExclusive
01. May 2014 路 15:36 UTC
likeeee
Ragzouken
01. May 2014 路 16:46 UTC
seemed like hammering the attack key made it impossible to die. really like the sprites :D
allinlabs
01. May 2014 路 19:11 UTC
Little word of advise: don't use installers for your game, usually people don't like them and prefer zip file (but I've no idea if it's even possible with Gamemaker?).
That being said, nice little game, would definitively see that on mobile. Good work!
Andy Gainey
01. May 2014 路 19:19 UTC
I couldn't really figure anything out regarding combat. Who was attacking me and when, or how to strategically attack back. I ended up just pressing z repeatedly since that seemed to attack in all directions (despite what the animation suggested), sticking a few presses of space in there every now and then to dig. That seemed to work most of the time, but sometimes I'd end up taking damage from someone and I couldn't tell who or why, or what to do about it.
dertom
01. May 2014 路 19:21 UTC
I think I crushed my Space-Key :D Nice Job!
馃帳 kato
01. May 2014 路 19:23 UTC
Sorry, can not remember the site name, but is a site that creates songs randomly, and put the version and just click and play
Thanks to all
iiechapman
01. May 2014 路 19:40 UTC
Very Difficult game, nifty idea to Dig n' Survive!
Gaspard_
01. May 2014 路 19:48 UTC
Had a hard time at first, but eventually managed it.
Repeatedly mashing space instead of holding space was not obvious for me.
That being said, it's pretty good.
td1801
01. May 2014 路 19:50 UTC
It's very fun ! But my hand hurt :'(
Nice job !
stenol
01. May 2014 路 20:06 UTC
Pretty fine game. Gratz :)
reheated
01. May 2014 路 20:17 UTC
Nice art, and quite fun! But sore hand yeah.
rojo
01. May 2014 路 20:28 UTC
Not bad. Digging stuff up was pretty satisfying. I would say a potential improvement would be to adjust the pacing of the enemies while adding a cooldown to your attack so there's a little more strategy there other than spamming the attack button.
Dualhammers
01. May 2014 路 20:50 UTC
I spent most of the game simply spamming the space-bar to kill enemies. I understand this is the primary challenge of the game but it was not one of skill, merely dexterity. This game would destroy phone screens on mobile.

It would be nice to see this game expanded with some kind of strategic elements. Not being able to pass over holes, for example, could provide some depth to the experience.
sP0CkEr2
02. May 2014 路 04:25 UTC
nice keyboard bashing game there. it was pretty good and I thought it fit the theme - pretty hard too - good job
Fritzendugan
02. May 2014 路 05:25 UTC
Basically just mashed space and Z over and over again until my fingers bled. It was kind of exciting/fun at first in that "yeah! button mashing!" sense, but the novelty rapidly expired and quickly grew tiresome. Needed some kind of variation in the attacks/enemies. Maybe bombs and the like. And varied enemy spawns, they just kind of kept flowing in an endless slaughter, which in turn kept me mashing buttons.

could probably be modified into a decently fun mobile game.

Nonetheless, kudos to you for making a game this past weekend and seeing it to completion, not everyone always makes it through, and most people don't even try.
Delca
11. May 2014 路 16:53 UTC
A really neat game, although my left hand hurt a little after playing it :S
At first, I did not understand that you need to press Space repeatedly to dig up a square, mostly because the progress bar was hard to spot.
That being said, both graphics and audio are awesome. Good job!