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Cave Crawl by jellycopter

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made by jellycopter for Ludum Dare 54 (COMPO)

Crawl to the secret graffiti cave!

Gather 5 paint cans to open the door.

Click and drag hands and feet to move. Slippery surfaces and stalactites can't be grabbed. Lava is bad.

Press "R" to return to your last flag.

Escape to Quit.

--Edit : Oct 4 For better playability I've updated some of the graphics layers and collisions. The recommended version to play this game is CaveCrawl1.1.exe! It is available as a web playable game on itch.io, however there are some GMS2 related bugs with textures sometimes! Feel free to play CaveCrawl.exe for the authentic COMPO version.

Have Fun!cavecrawlgif.gif

Link https://jellycopter.itch.io/cave-crawl
Link https://github.com/alex-donnan/CaveCrawl
Original URL https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/54/cave-crawl

Ratings

Overall 253th 3.328⭐ 31🧑‍⚖️
Fun 261th 3.167⭐ 32🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 153th 3.534⭐ 31🧑‍⚖️
Theme 210th 3.536⭐ 30🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 224th 3.333⭐ 32🧑‍⚖️
Audio 279th 2.333⭐ 23🧑‍⚖️
Humor 30th 3.839⭐ 30🧑‍⚖️
Mood 151th 3.429⭐ 30🧑‍⚖️
Given 29🗳️ 35🗨️

Feedback

LDJam user 377116
02. Oct 2023 · 19:39 UTC
Reminds me a lot of the QWOP climb game and ragdoll kung fu! well done!
Blaasen
02. Oct 2023 · 20:11 UTC
The art and subtle animations on the player are fantastic and feel great to play around with, super fun! Slight pain point was that I kept clicking around to find my joints, but perhaps that will become easier with time.
rodvik
02. Oct 2023 · 20:12 UTC
fun nicely done!
Shad
02. Oct 2023 · 20:20 UTC
"QWOP" meets "Frog Climbers" :)
Sometimes it's hard to find where the limbs are, and it's hard to move them
cheesepencil
03. Oct 2023 · 01:33 UTC
I struggled to find my feet and hands as my body became a jumble of limbs several times, but it's funny!
LDJam user 277876
03. Oct 2023 · 01:41 UTC
I like the idea, but I unfortunately kept clipping a limb or torso into one of the walls during the first crawl section and wasn't able to progress :(. Working with what I managed to do, the mood is set very nicely with the aggressive breathing, and the main player just looks so jolly with it's human face plaster upon it. I enjoyed your work and wish I could have seen more. Best of luck!
LDJam user 237413
03. Oct 2023 · 03:15 UTC
Haha this reminds me of QWOP so much!
Very fun, but had a hard time selecting some limbs.
Maybe a keyboard shortcut would have worked.
Nice one!
LDJam user 142558
03. Oct 2023 · 04:53 UTC
Nice and silly QWOP-ish game! Movement feels nice but sometimes the hands/feet get stuck and become hard to click
goddzeproject
03. Oct 2023 · 06:00 UTC
Oh, very interesting controls, there is a little inconvenience in this, but in general, if you get used to the behavior of the body, you can go through the levels quite quickly.
HangoverGames
03. Oct 2023 · 11:35 UTC
I was never able to climb the left wall, but the character and idea are simply charming!
I'd like some music to keep the atmosphere going
Zirrrus
03. Oct 2023 · 12:54 UTC
Really fun idea and has a great unique look. But I couldn't get the hang of it - got stuck getting through the small tunnel at the start.
CaptainDreamcast
03. Oct 2023 · 13:20 UTC
Very funny game! Love the face and how silly the movement through the cave can get. I think the ambience also really captures that cave exploration feeling. Great job!
lostcyclop
03. Oct 2023 · 19:27 UTC
As someone who loves climbing in real life, I was instantly interested in this game. It was super fun, but one thing that could have been improved is the visibility of clickable body elements and feedback to confirm if they actually sticked. I spent a lot of time trying to click on those legs :D Good job and congrats!
LDJam user 313326
04. Oct 2023 · 01:02 UTC
Pretty fun game with unique graphics. interesting concept, and it portrays the theme well.
PerfectSquare
04. Oct 2023 · 02:10 UTC
Interesting take on the theme, it definitely felt like "limited space" when I had the poor guy crunched into a tunnel with his arms and legs all facing the wrong ways :sweat_smile: As some people have already mentioned I did have some times where hands/feet would get stuck and be hard to find/click on.
Furtive Pygmy
05. Oct 2023 · 00:09 UTC
Great entry, a lot of fun and very "QWOP" which I enjoyed.
Lots of fun to play, a bit of music would have added to the atmosphere but I was invested either way as I enjoy these ragdoll-like games.
LDJam user 372085
05. Oct 2023 · 19:06 UTC
funny concept! i had a really hard time playing - it seemed like the hitboxes for grabbing the hands/feet was very small and i often had trouble getting a hold of them.
LDJam user 280036
05. Oct 2023 · 19:37 UTC
help

![stretch.png](///raw/4e5/44/z/5fcdc.png)

this was funny, good entry :smile:
DiscoFish
06. Oct 2023 · 10:59 UTC
What a funny game! Nice art style also. Great job!
kuggenhoffen
06. Oct 2023 · 14:19 UTC
Pretty interesting game. Would be super funny if the face changed when squeezing through small gaps :D Also I think I somehow managed to turn the caver inside out:
![cave-crawl.png](///raw/a67/1/z/5fdff.png)

Well done on the game!
LDJam user 352490
06. Oct 2023 · 23:35 UTC
It's awesome and hilarious how glitchy and janky this is to control. I got a little (or a lot) stuck a couple minutes in:

![cave2.png](///raw/ae0/65/z/5feaa.png)
seurimas
09. Oct 2023 · 03:52 UTC
This man has a bad case of boneitis! Sadly, the textures started to get corrupted halfway through and it became unplayable a bit after that. Still, the controls are pretty sensible (even if ridiculous by design) once you get used to them. Well done!