Cave without Story

Category	Rank	Score	Count
Innovation	120	2.16	44
Fun	57	3.02	45
Theme	71	3.20	44
Graphics	109	2.41	44
Audio	28	3.26	43
Humor	95	2.00	21
Overall	65	3.00	44
Community	105	2.19	36
Coolness	63	23

Problem Machine

Pretty fun, though I'm not sure if it's a shmup as shooting seems to mostly not be worth the trouble. Maybe it's just a mup!
I like the way the music changes after the level transition, though I didn't notice it changing after the first.

Gilvado

Kinda wish there was more shooting of dudes, and dodging of bullets. Still, a decent entry.

smx

Although I don't think shmups and random levels match too well, this one is actually quite fun.
Is that a sample from Silkworm (the explosion)?

Green Point

Ok, it is harder than my game, now I learned a lesson, to do not make a hard game for ludum dare, because people has a lot of games to review and do not have enought time to become a master of one game.

sylvie

Pretty fun. I wish the difficulty increased faster though, level 1 is pretty easy and going through it again each time you die gets boring. It could use a button for focused movement too as almost all of my deaths came from crashing into walls while trying to get the gems near them.

nilsf

Letting us shoot stalactites that drop on enemies was a nice touch. :)

localcoder

I like the idea - shooting stalactites and getting chain reactions, and deciding whether to sneak past bats or disturb and fight them.

However, I found it frustrating that many ants appeared in places where I could not kill them. I died a lot on level 1 from trying to kill ants :/

Wiering

The earthquake effect was a little too much IMO.

Almost

I died near every time I went to collect a heart..

noonat

Feels really solid, despite it's simplicity. I liked being able to shoot the spikes, but the quake effect after the fell was so extreme that it kind of nulled out the usefulness of it.

erik

Challenging, mostly due to random gem placement. Those bats are nasty. I want to kill them, but they are too fast. Nice job on the audio.

Six

Control felt a fair bit too jittery for the precision movement required. A little acceleration curve would work wonders for playability imo.

sol_hsa

Controls could use some slight low-pass filtering to make them feel more fun.

mjau

Hey, the theme was CAVERN, not CAVE! Zero sta-- oh, all right, I'll let it slide this time.

Anyway, I like this. It's fun. The music gets a little repetitive after a while, but I like how it changes when you get to a new level.

Endurion

Quite solid fun.

If the bullets would actually be useful it'd be a real shooter :)
Shooting stalagmites is pretty useless since you can't see anything when the screen shakes. And the ants take way too much shots. Managed 1302 points.
Good music!

jolle

Like the music. Funny though, the game feels more difficult when firing. Easier (at least for as far as I got) to just concentrate on flying into things. Think the controls where a bit too sensitive, didn't get any kind of precision.

philomory

Pretty basic shmup. Plays well, nothing too inspiring, but it moves nice and fast. The 'smash enemy with stalactite' mechanic is pretty neat, though I rarely got a chance to use it.

HybridMind

Controls were challenging to me so I only was able to ever make it to Level 2 / 800 points high. Found the screen shaking a little bit too much as it was way too disorienting. Like the graphic palette and the variety of creatures and cave objects. I wish I could control the ship a little better to get to some of those toughly placed hearts. Solid little arcadey game though and fun for a few go rounds for sure. Love the music too!