FoonLudum Dare ExplorerLD15 → below the house

below the house

By dessgeega

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Innovation203.6444
Fun183.5944
Theme44.2544
Overall63.8644
Graphics553.2744
Audio602.6439
Humor402.8030
Community1231.7023
Coolness7417

Comments

Radix

I jumped.

Ariel Yust

Damn it I jumped >_< =P the game gfx are annoying u could do better but the ending was nice :P

please make better controls... and add ambitient music ;)

Green Point

There's a "Watch out your steps", then I fall and could not go to anywhere else... The graphics could be a little better and the gameplay could be a little longer...

ChevyRay

I didn't jump, but I liked all the little details later on. Was fun :)

Hempuli

I really loved the way to text was 'hidden'!

Problem Machine

Really cool aesthetic (though I didn't like the protag sprite much), and a very innovative way to do exposition. I particularly like how strange and unnatural the patterns of the caverns get later on.

drZool

Intriguing! The suspense with reading the texts made the whole thing.

ExciteMike

Having the little character's eyes follow the mouse was a I really nice little touch.

afterthought

Ahahaha. "Oh, let me turn the light on... I wonder if I'm actually in the room" I still jumped, but I'm easily startled :P
Yeah the sprite for the player is a bit bland, but you had a lot of atmosphere! Would be great with music.

Noyb

Great atmosphere. I like how the cave environment itself tells the story, both in its design and writing on the walls.

badlydrawnrod

My wife and daughter both jumped. Good ending. Problem is, it's a bit one-shot, ie, once you've seen the ending...
Like it a lot.

gimblll

Nice! Loved the flashlight vs. texts and how it came together at the end.

Endurion

Is that really the ending? Once I fell into "My room" I saw eyes and then the program closed.

I love the hidden texts in the wall ;)

jolle

What the other guys said.

philomory

Ok, this is a fantastically atmospheric game. I like it a lot.

Just one question. Is it actually possible to turn off the light?

erik

Very nice. I'm impressed with your ability to take simple game mechanics and create an interesting story with loads of atmosphere and a lot of fun.

noonat

Haha, damnit, I jumped! The messages were a really great idea. I wasn't very invested at first, but the more I read, the more I wanted to read the rest. Loved it. The movement was a bit twitchy for me, and I found it hard to jump where I wanted to.

Entar

Only thing I didn't like was that down in the tunnels there were some really narrow tunnels that it was hard to get into. Otherwise, cool.

sol_hsa

Slightly better controls and ambient music and this would be a classic.

greencow

eek! nice finish ;]

sirGustav

I got stuck several times since I couldn't get through some of the smaller because of the character speed..

HybridMind

Great little explorer game here. I enjoyed the way you handled the style and story/level elements in this. I am not sure I caught 100% of the text but definitely jumped a little even though I was pretty sure something 'bad' was about to happen. The site of all those eyes will haunt my digital self for quite some time... ;) The cavern design is really fun and interesting too and I love the wiggly flashlight and the following eyeballs.

agj

It's so annoying having to hold the mouse button down, it would've been simpler if the light followed the mouse all the time. But anyway, good one! I jumped as well.

sf17k

Short, sweet, simple, beautiful.

Almost

I jumped.
only complaint is that the sensitive controls made it difficult to fall in narrow width gaps.
Oh, and quiet music that grows in intensity with depth traversed would be great.

lexaloffle

Fantastic game. Top marks for everything except humor, because I only laughed nervously. I didn't see any instructions about how to turn the torch off, but desperately clambering around with the controls at the edge of MY ROOM seemed appropriate.

phren

Somehow the game was really jittery for me, a bit unplayable because of it. Other than that there was a nice atmosphere in the game (felt artsy, especially the start).

ondrew

Great atmosphere!!

SpaceManiac

I got really stuck for a while - until I figured out how to turn off the light!