Micro Grotto by xnblank

Micro Grotto is a puzzle platformer based around the theme "Small World" for Ludum Dare 38. You play as a small cloaked featureless creature that has to traverse a set of 8 small rooms on a small island of stone filled with human objects that act as dangers to find the legend of the village.
Controls
- [UP] - Jump
- [LEFT / RIGHT] - Move
- [DOWN] - Enter Doors
- [ENTER] - Menu confirm
- [R] - Restart Level
- [F4] - Toggle Fullscreen
- [F1] - Toggle FPS counter!
Game is now available to download on Itch.io
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| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/38/tiny-world-1 |
Ratings
| Overall | 138th | 3.818⭐ | 24🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 95th | 3.818⭐ | 24🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 642th | 2.571⭐ | 23🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 677th | 2.619⭐ | 23🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 89th | 4.364⭐ | 24🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 65th | 3.955⭐ | 24🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 457th | 2.389⭐ | 20🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 236th | 3.524⭐ | 23🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 6🗳️ | 2🗨️ |
EDIT: ah, I'm such a dummy, this is a jam entry. :sweat_smile: Keep going, it looks promising!
Not entirely sure what the story was about. Who are we. Why are we searching for fungi. Why is our animation so derpy and cute. No idea.
What I do know however is that the gameplay is fun and smooth, the atmosphere is nice and it's a pretty solid LD Entry overall.
How this relates to the theme could have been more clear though, as I don't think I really understand that bit =P
I got to the puzzle with the raising of water, unfortunately the game crashed on a fatal error.
Nonetheless, pretty graphics and the music sets up a nice ambient. In contrast to other commentors I liked the heavy jump, maybe except for the pushing of blocks, which where stacked ontop another, which got pretty tedious after a few tries.
cheers~
Nice pixel art and also good level design.
I really enjoyed every single Level.
The game crushed when one of the die dropped upon my head lol
One tiny nitpick would be that I'd occasionally _dodge_ a pickup item as it shot towards me. Or, I'd walk close to it, then double back out of its trajectory and it would fly offscreen. That's something that can be fixed with a little bit of tweening, but otherwise pickups were great and felt rewarding.
Here probably the best animations of all that I've seen!
By the way, the game crashed in the level with the conveyor belt (i hope that's how it's named, i had to google that lol) when the box fell in my head.
Good job!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uo0eF_2kFRY