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Noyb

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Timestamp	Since previous	Game	Noyb's comment
		Fake Gold	Awesome idea. Nice execution.
		Caverns	Love the ecosystem concept. Found 8 races so far. I like how some of the critters interact in ways that are counter-productive to your goal, like the tarballs killing trees, or the tomatoes blocking some animals. <br/> <br/>Might be cool if producing one or more of a certain race unlocks a character bio telling more about it, like in Tanaka's Friendly Adventure. <br/> <br/>Cute sprites. The cave palette somehow reminds me a lot of lemmings.
		Candle	I found this oddly calming for a game about a guy who is on fire. The gradual dimming effect is well done. I'd like to see this expanded on with some level design or a more forgiving level generating algorithm.
		Collapse	Fun game! It's surprisingly tense when the level forces you through a tight corridor to get to the exit.
		Roundabout RandaBat	Great idea. Great implementation. It's very fun to swoop around the level. I'd like to see a bit more transparency with the scoring mechanisms in-game, since it's not entirely clear what the star colors mean, or precisely how the number of stars around you affects your score.
		Cave Bounce	Pretty fun. I like the concept of shifting planes, and the action levels reminded me a bit of the missile dodging in N. <br/> <br/>The game itself felt a bit too long. Most of the levels before the missiles (and about 1/3 of the missile ones) didn't seem like they explored anything new in the concept. I did like that one early puzzle where you had to jump from one side of a stalagmite, shift in midair, and land on the other side of the same stalagmite to get enough height to reach some coins, though. <br/> <br/>I gave up on collecting coins around that staircase level. Thank god I'm not an obsessive completionist or the rest of the game would have been infuriating.
		DiggR	Awesome! Great concept and implementation. Could use a little less subtle indicator of water depth, and maybe a metagame about minimizing the number of steps/bombs placed/blocks destroyed.
		Tentacle	Crashed on level 4 for me, too. I like the idea, but I agree with the comments about lack of player feedback and motivation. Bats should have some indication (hitflash, sound effect, or otherwise) that they're being hurt, as should the player. It might be worth seeing how it plays as a non-scrolling game.
		Rock Warrior	The graphical style worked really well. Nice color choice. I especially liked how the volcano at the top of the screen looked. The gameplay is solid. It might benefit from easier horizontal digging, and maybe continuously modeling the gold collection and lava damage instead of just calculating it once the entire circle disappears, but these are just nitpicks.
		below the house	Great atmosphere. I like how the cave environment itself tells the story, both in its design and writing on the walls.
		CavernMinerThingyThing	Fun! UI could use a bit of work (kept accidentally hitting the windows key when digging, there weren't many times I wanted to buy just one ladder, and at first I thought the cancel marks over items meant I couldn't buy them yet), but the main gameplay is solid and addictive.
		Ascent	25 deaths. Nice level design. Never felt like you were reusing ideas. Controls were a bit fast, but that was only an issue with some of the small trampolines or collapsible platforms. It also seemed to freeze slightly every time it played a sound, which made the guns pretty annoying. Other than that, a solid, fun platformer.
		Crystal Cave	Love the art style. Had a tough time with depth perception. Difficulty curve was a bit too shallow for my tastes, but it fit well with the ambient music.
		Cave Explorer	Great work with the Gameboy-style graphics and sound. Nice sense of dread. The general setup reminded me of Gravity Bone in a death-as-game-prematurely-cut-short kind of way. <br/> <br/>Maybe a fade to complete blackness for a few seconds, or a final line of dialogue or creature sound effect would make the ending feel sudden without seeming like a glitch.
		mine	I hear a drum hit, then the game immediately freezes on a black screen.
		Akin Revenge	That was awesome! Absolutely oozes style. Interesting game mechanics and enemy progression. I love how "dying" just knocks you to the bottom. Some of the normal levels went on for far too long (especially the 80+ enemy ones), but it kept me interested through the final boss.
		Cave Dangerous	I was hoping this would be longer! Very promising start. Going back to the surface every time you needed a new bomb would get old fast, though.
		Super Bean Kid	Great sound design. Great level design. Great humor (especially the backstory in the readme). The second level is a little unforgiving, and the camera oddly shows what's behind me more than what's ahead, but otherwise I love it.
		Cave Fishter	Scored 15 once I figured out the gameplay was a matter of alternately dipping the rod into the left and right pools. Simple but fun once you get used to the inertia. Minor bug: sometimes the orange pool doesn't accept a blue fish if you're too far down the screen. I like the music.
		Cave Diver	I kept getting pulled to the right in the three tentacle room. Definitely needs some kind of visual indication that the current changes in that room, and some buffer zone that doesn't require you to start swimming to the left right away for no given reason. This is an unfair death, which is made even worse by the unforgiving respawn system. <br/> <br/>Graphics were nice, especially the lighting in the last room. A few of the low-color sprites didn't quite mesh with the smooth gradient backgrounds, though.
		Mole Cave Tactics!	Getting an error on launch in the windows build. <br/> <br/>Type: ExerbRuntime::Error <br/> <br/>Message: Couldn't call the initialize function in the extension library. --- ./gosu.for_1_8.so(Init_gosu.for_1_8) <br/> <br/>Backtrace: gosu.rb:7:in `require' <br/>gosu.rb:7
		GoblinHome	Nice animation and model work, especially for the timeframe. They have character! <br/> <br/>The cave generation and path finding seemed well done, though the caves were a bit too large for the movement speed. <br/> <br/>I kept running into a bug where if one of my goblins came to rest on a dead enemy, I couldn't select him again. <br/> <br/>Gameplay was a bit slow and free from choice/strategy, but you've got a nice baseline here.
		Jello Cavern	It's really easy to fall of the sides of the screen, or get the character in a state where even the arrow keys don't move him in the intended direction. Were you trying to use physical force applied to the various components of the character to simulate walking? Could be pretty cool when it's in a more complete state.
		caveskid	Works well. Nice job learning a new language!
		Cavern Crawler (Final)	I liked the music. :) <br/> <br/>Vector graphics worked well for this game. Some color-changing every so often might have helped to give the player a sense of progression. I thought the game would go on forever until I reached the end room. <br/> <br/>The inertial movement with the moving camera gave off the dizzying feeling of the cave moving towards my ship instead of my ship moving through the cave. It's also a bit disorienting that the ship rotates on a vertex and not its center.
		Black Cave	Trying to download in Firefox 2 just left me with a local copy of a Ludum Dare website. Worked in IE, though. <br/> <br/>I like the monochrome aesthetic. With some more variety and ambient sounds, I can see this being genuinely creepy.