Unstable Caves by notime4games

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made by notime4games for Ludum Dare 49 (COMPO)

Unstable Caves. Have fun! screenshot123.png

Ratings

Overall 211th 3.609⭐ 25🧑‍⚖️
Fun 183th 3.609⭐ 25🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 194th 3.565⭐ 25🧑‍⚖️
Theme 108th 4.065⭐ 25🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 119th 3.87⭐ 25🧑‍⚖️
Humor 315th 2.5⭐ 19🧑‍⚖️
Mood 422th 2.75⭐ 22🧑‍⚖️
Given 26🗳️ 0🗨️

Feedback

LDJam user 221561
04. Oct 2021 · 01:12 UTC
Starts simple, gets tricky fast! Good game, could use some sound to improve the mood/humour aspect (an almighty crash of rock) :smiley:
Matthew Roelle
04. Oct 2021 · 02:10 UTC
Well done! Great puzzle game, kind of reminded me of boulder dash lol.
LDJam user 2042
04. Oct 2021 · 14:37 UTC
Nice! I like this kind of thing, grid-based puzzle games.

Might be nice if you could use the same button to pickup/drop things, rather than having one button per object type.

And I wasn't quite sure what the rules were about when exactly rocks would fall. I guess that does fit the theme, but for some reason when a game is on a strict grid I expect it to have really rigid, legible mechanics. But I suppose there's no reason it should.

Speaking of the theme, this is a really nice interpretation of it.

Although I did have some criticisms, I found they didn't really affect my experience of the game that much and ended up rating it highly.
Barrier
08. Oct 2021 · 08:53 UTC
Very nice game! Great graphics! The puzzles could get interesting if you had more time to do more levels.
Zeilanda
17. Oct 2021 · 21:18 UTC
Good puzzle, reminded 90s) Convenient control, but maybe will be better to use axe with another button, than move.
Thank you for this game!
TaBoO_Chris
17. Oct 2021 · 21:40 UTC
Super fun to play! I had a small bug on the display of the number of ladder .
spudboy
17. Oct 2021 · 21:41 UTC
It's really unfortunate that you ran out of time on this. With a few more levels and a little more polish (animations or at least looking left 😛) this could be really good I think.

I will say, it's a little unclear how exactly the supporting systems work. I was usually not quite sure specifically which blocks would fall when I mined a tile or removed a support.

Overall, good start.
pkenney
18. Oct 2021 · 20:11 UTC
Really cool set of systems that I bet create some fun puzzles, it's too bad you didn't get further since I would have loved to play some more. I liked what was here, cool systems, a nice underground vibe that the art really sells. Nice work, despite not really getting it to a complete experience.
ruruie
19. Oct 2021 · 21:35 UTC
This is a nice little puzzle game. Could've done with sounds - any sounds at all and I think a single unified interact button would've been enough for removing any object. I actually got stuck not far in!
2kah
19. Oct 2021 · 21:38 UTC
Shows a lot of promise! I enjoyed the level that was there :)
foresherd
19. Oct 2021 · 22:12 UTC
I enjoyed the interpretation! The few puzzles there were were fun to figure out. The mechanics of how blocks fell when not supported did seem a bit hard to predict, though that seemed more like buggy edge-cases than unclear design. Overall I enjoyed my time with the game!
Grumpy Gecko
20. Oct 2021 · 04:53 UTC
I liked the puzzle design and quite enjoyed the art! The last finished puzzle sure ramped up the difficulty, was a bit lost until I realized you started out with two ladders. As others have said the ladder number would sometimes display the wrong value and having one pick-up button for objects would've been great. But had a lot of fun playing, thanks for the game! :D
Geckoo1337
20. Oct 2021 · 19:14 UTC
Interesting gameplay with a clean visual. It fits with the theme. Controls work well as expected. I had fun playing. You made a solid entry. Well done ++
Joshua Stone
20. Oct 2021 · 19:29 UTC
This is an awesome little puzzle game! It uses a very simple mechanic but it makes for some great challenges. Congrats!
LDJam user 269161
20. Oct 2021 · 19:38 UTC
Nice Game!
m1nus
20. Oct 2021 · 19:46 UTC
That was such a good gameplay, it reminded me of Lode Runner, and the art is so nice!
Lychee
20. Oct 2021 · 19:59 UTC
Cool puzzle idea, I had trouble figuring out to do them when they got more complicated. The systems seemed to be good, the only issue I found was if I picked up ladders sometimes the UI wouldn't show how many I have correctly. Solid entry though!