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NICE CAVE!

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Percentile
CategoryRankScoreCountLD15Ever
Fun203.566685.875.8
Theme34.276698.595.0
Graphics84.266695.090.4
Humor43.846297.890.9
Overall63.866695.787.0
Community64.155496.498.3
Innovation782.806446.027.8
Audio552.736259.525.8
Coolness741738.89.7

Ratings received

OverallAudioFunGraphicsHumorInnovationThemeCommunity
4235324
43344354
54555455
44454145
4235225
434514
42354445
31333243
43444443
445555
3232214
53555155
43454455
41553252
54555355
53454544
43544444
11111111
43442344
54455455
32333242
32243244
34344244
3323324
43354454
44344245
31444233
5235445
42334445
43435354
42453445
42455255
42253244
44445345
32334245
43354255
42354144
32333345
33343233
42443343
3354243
43454454
4334445
54555454
3324233
33553
43543245
4254534
43454254
32344344
42345455
54555555
55525
54355355
44453343
53354454
42345355
42544445
44452444
43434344
43444444
33243244
43443345
322425
32334245
4445344

Comments

hempuli

Awesome graphics!

doohan

Fantastic graphics. The penguins are awesome too and the poor polarbear that isn't very good at computers.

jazmeister

Fun to explore. My WASD fingers wanted to jump and mouselook though, damn you!

gnitlis

Ahaha @ polarbear. Mouse look was a bit annoying because of no up/down, and the mouse cursor didn't disappear and that annoyed the crap out of me until it got stuck in one of my desktop corners xD

destroysound

This was the first game I played, and it is absolutely gorgeous. Reminds me of the multiplayer game from Serial Experiments Lain. The environments are a little cluttered from all of the stalagmites/icicles, though. One of the best 3d offerings I've ever seen in LD. 5/5 graphics.

gavolot

Awesome, really really enjoyed it :).

nilsf

It was fun exploring the cavern, the room with water was especially nice.
The penguin sound was very annoying and the mouse seemed overly sensitive; it would have been nice to be able to play with just the keyboard.

kobel

Haha, this is great. I'm not sure if the key collecting is supposed to be a satire of old-school FPSes, but it totally works on that level; in fact, I would have started throwing in increasingly ridiculous key colors just to keep it fun. You found the eggshell key! You found the blackwatch plaid key!
Between that and the old school graphics I kept expecting to get yelled at by nazis. But then, it's always good to be prepared to be yelled at by nazis.

gorgoroth666

Really enjoy the graphics the most with this one. I also like how the puzzles where just the right level of difficulty.

kimau

Really loved the little comments. They made the game for me.

glever

Hehe, fun graphics

foureyes

Very stylish visuals. More extensive than I expected as well.

Penguins with dialog saved it from being boring.

sparky

Grand show! This game is looking great, sounds nice, funny and best of all, fun to play.

Very well done!

galinho

Love the penguin dialogue. Poor polar bear.

gadlor

I really like the dialogue from the penguins and polar bear. The low-res textures and keys remind me of Doom, though, which is a bit disconcerting in a game about cute penguins in a cave :)

farman-farout

Liked it a lot, and somehow it wasn't hard to know where I was meant to be going even though everywhere looks the same. :D

wiering

Very nice!

grayson

Obviously, super graphics. I chuckled at the polar bear. The icy water effect looks *awesome.* Same for the stairs. I was also impressed that you implemented multi-level platform capability instead of just a single heightmap, and angled walls, etc. My only complaint: the maze/puzzle is easy to solve by keeping the wall on your left/right and walking around it (this could be solved by having "island" areas that can't be reached that way). Difficulty aside, it felt very solid, and you could definitely keep it at this difficulty level and make a great kids' game.

ondrew

Really nice graphics, but there were too many keys to find. Fortunately there were penguins and polar bear that made the game fun.

grungekid

Looks great, and I loved the penguins and polar bears. The gameplay is pretty bland, though.

sf17k

Yesssss I found mushrooms.

daz

That was a pretty nice game. Took me forever to find the orange key though, heh.

sol_hsa

Curious - the zip doesn't open with XPs internal zip support, but 7z opens it fine.

freefouran

I enjoyed the penguins and the polar bear was a nice touch too. One tiny little thing - it would be nice if mouse pointer was capture when the game is played. It also would've been nice to be able to 'mouselook'. This is easily one of the best games in the competition.

coreytaylor

That was chilling. I mean, I was expecting a macabre twist at any point, especially when I saw that tube at the end. Turned out that it was just genuinely silly happy.

jolle

Not being able to look up and down, coupled with unfiltered low res textures, low fov, and a maze like environment where everything looks pretty much the same, just makes me feel dizzy and sick.

It's a shame, because it seems really cool otherwise, and everyone else seems to like it a lot. Best of luck.

mathias

Simple labyrinth game, good for what it is. Got through without frustrations. Great penguins. :)

entar

Cool game. I couldn't finish though, because I couldn't find the keys for the door I found, and I couldn't find the door for the keys I found.

dessgeega

though it's apparent you got a 3d cave working and then added in some arbitrary things to find, it's a really nice cave to explore. the varying shape of the caverns (stairs, bridges, rivers) and the messages of the cavern population keep exploration interesting and ensure it's not TOO easy to get lost.

objelisks

Amazing game. I love the pixely aesthetic.

simon

Awesome art, loved the sounds and the dialog text. Poor polar bear. :( Haha. Lack of up/down on the mouselook was frustrating, would have preferred keyboard if mouse doesn't have up/down. Also, mouse not being locked to window meant I kept accidentally clicking on things outside of the game.

drymarti111

I don't know why, but I really love to see 3d-ified pixel art.

hybridmind

Great style to this game. I had a lot of fun exploring and winning this game. I'm glad you managed to put so much content in level and character wise. It would have been more easy to get turned around if it weren't for all the nice touches you added to the environment like the various dialogues for the penguins and different drips and mushrooms etc. The levels themselves were pretty and interestingly designed. It was just about the right length too for a 'find the key' game to keep my interest and ended just when I thought it should. Enjoyed this a lot, congrats.

morre

I love it! Excellent graphics, of course, and the little messages were all very entertaining. The penguins are absolutely adorable! I surprised myself giving you rather high marks for audio, mostly because of the penguin sound.

Well done! It's definitely one of my favorites for LD15 - glad to see you finished something this time. :)

gil2455526

absolutely love it.

doches

Fantastic! In every way! But oh-so-short.

cpowell

Liked the retro graphics, although the movement induced motion sickness in my wife.

funkyjive

It was cute! I like penguins.

daithi

Probably the best take on maze games in quite some time...