Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD15 → below the house

below the house

By dessgeega

Percentile
CategoryRankScoreCountLD15Ever
Innovation203.644485.880.2
Fun183.594487.277.6
Theme44.254497.894.4
Overall63.864495.787.0
Graphics553.274461.943.3
Audio602.643956.622.2
Humor402.803071.449.2
Community1231.702314.017.3
Coolness741738.89.7

Ratings received

OverallAudioCommunityFunGraphicsInnovationThemeHumor
4214445
54345454
43143554
4144443
4234453
4344443
45144353
53152454
3112233
2121231
535345
5555553
41143542
33345
443454
22122332
423215
3313434
42144443
43434453
32242333
5444444
4324535
4143333
31134442
5334452
332332
3113133
53244533
42343454
4343344
453444
4244452
33322432
44133241
4445454
34224
444445
42344441
44343343
222234
524555
423254
51153352

Comments

radix

I jumped.

spacemaniac

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 ;)

thiagocamposviana

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...

fishy49

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'!

kobel

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.

winferno

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

drymarti111

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

erki

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.

cpowell

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.

mathias

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

sparky

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.

funkyjive

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

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

foureyes

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.

simon

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.

julian

eek! nice finish ;]

garrig12

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.

coreytaylor

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.

glever

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.

terry

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!!

angermango

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