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Kung-Fu Kaverns

By frosty

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Innovation612.9539
Fun373.2639
Theme863.0339
Graphics962.6138
Audio1321.0911
Humor332.8832
Overall633.0539
Community1421.1010
Coolness1211

Comments

SwiftFalcn

Very coolio, kinda pac-man like in nature.

Kimau

Nice simple fun!
Love the retro graphics, love the quick random play.
Nice entry

Wiering

Pretty enjoyable for a javascript game!

smx

Great effort for only 6h, fun mini-game with coherent style

Endurion

Well done for 6 hours only.

Pretty tough limit, is there a win condition as well? Also, the random maze algo had a part of the cavern secluded.

Matt Thorson

Nice and simple. Love the concept of beating up bears with kung fu haha.

afterthought

Makes good use of its minimalism.
I like the difficulty level. I got some really difficult caves, but them's the ropes with random levels :)

Six

Any game where you run into bears to beat them up is all right by me.
I did get one random cave though where I was cut off in a tiny starting section. I kind of wanted to be able to see where I'd been and the edge of my sight, but I guess not having that was half the fun.

CodeJustin

Simple but fun

erik

Quite compelling considering how simple it is.

Can you win? I think I managed to explore a whole cave, but I haven't been able to kill all the bears.

badlydrawnrod

Let's put it this way. Every time I thought I'd quit and go and rate this game I just had to have another go. It's a nice little diversion and it certainly helps your case that I'm a sucker for the TRS-80 look.

jplur

Ha great job, so simple but the idea is sound and the retro graphics add a cute quality to it.

nilsf

Nifty little game.
Minimalist but brilliant all the same.

philomory

I actually liked this game rather a lot, for all that it's extremely simple. It may not be very complicated, but the fact is, it does what it does very well. As odd as it sounds, it's very 'polished' seeming.

ondrew

Very kung-fun!

mjau

Haha, this is great! =) Very simple, but it's fun.

The cavern generating algorithm needs a little work though. One time I started off in a little area cut off from the rest of the cave, and another time I saw a caved-in bear. (Maybe it'd heard of me and decided its chance of survival was higher that way?)

I think I managed to clear the cavern of both pickups and bears once, but the game didn't detect it, leaving me to wander around the empty halls until a terminal lack of Fu killed me off (at 2008 points). Would've been nice with a win message or something =)

DrPetter

Simple but sort of fun. Maybe you could have put in a few more fu pickups to make it less starved. As it is now I would basically run low and cross my fingers all the time for some fu to turn up, and when it did I jumped at it immediately. It would have been more exciting if the bears moved. Random movement would have been easy to add and wouldn't have made it a whole lot more difficult.

Entar

Interesting, nice balance between fighting and exploring.

Henry McLaughlin

Fun little game.

Rather impressive to me that this was done in Javascript. It there something I don't know about it?

I like the concept, too. :-)

HybridMind

Awesome game. So simple yet a lot of very elegant mechanics going on here. Highest score I attained was 1991. I played a bunch of times as it was quite easy to play again and had a quick pace. The minimal graphics are great too. I enjoy the amount of tension this game packs into it's simple concept too. The balance of picking up new Fu, watching your Fu-meter, and attacking the bears is all really compelling. I wish you had done at least one journal entry though just to hear from you a bit! :)