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Cavern Diver

By hroon

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Graphics143.94
Audio53.88
Coolness325
Humor263.00
Overall523.22
Fun583.00
Community812.63
Innovation842.72
Theme1112.72

Comments

Problem Machine

I like the background effects. I can't tell if there's any actual reason to attack though, it seems like it raises my rad counter without any commensurate benefits

jolle

Can't seem to figure out how to survive. Game broken? Anyway, looks good, plays kind of good (if it seemed to work). Background stuff a bit distracting though.

HybridMind

Enjoyed the odd visual style of this game. Was confused on whether I was supposed to be blowing up the radioactive cans at first. I thought it might be 'good' that my rads and the screen colors where brightening.. like leading to a cool power up. Seems I was wrong on level 1 anyway. Really like the odd rectangle background effect algorithm you did as your character moves around. Like the in game music a lot too.

Endurion

Looks very nice. I like the background effect, as in you need to fly lower to see the incoming obstacles better.

noonat

Once I figured out that I WASN'T supposed to shoot the barrels, things got more fun. :) You should edit your entry and put those instructions here, I didn't realize it until I looked at your blog posts after playing for a few minutes.

So much is good about this game... music, sounds, and the visual look of it is awesome. Also... MONOCLE. The intro was awesome.

Gameplay is actually pretty fun once I realized I was just supposed to be dodging. I still couldn't figure out how to beat the level, though.

It would be more fun if you had a way to ... un-toxify things again. It's kind of pointless once you start getting hurt. Also, the background effect is quite cool but I think it was one of the things that most confused the gameplay for me. It doesn't look like you're moving downward at all because the background is static, so I thought people were shooting barrels up at me or something.

Frimkron

I spent the first few minutes dodging the barrels in the background! But, to be fair, this is because I'm an idiot. Hey I was pretty good at it, though.

ExciteMike

Neat! Like most games, though, it could use better explosions! I wasn't sure if I was actually hurting the boss or he was just time based or what.

jazmeister

Pretty cool effects. Not sure what to do. Overall positive.

Hempuli

Dang, pixel shaders. ;_;

Jonny D

Needs some DirectX runtime thing... I don't feel like downloading 80 Mb right now. Maybe later.

agj

Confusing background effects make for a rather trippy experience.

ondrew

Once I understood what I should be doing it became fun.

The background effect was cool but for such a fast paced game it's a little too distracting.

sirGustav

visually interesting, and kinda fun once I understood I should throw massive amounts of explosions at the barrels... :)