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Cave: The Dark Ascent

By sythiri

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Innovation2671.9020
Fun2312.1822
Theme893.0521
Graphics2711.8622
Audio2401.4511
Humor1772.2218
Overall2572.1421
Community2242.0013
Coolness243

Comments

blodyavenger 2011-05-02 11:35

FPS drops very low when you reach 4th level (first one with the grass) and it's imposible to play from there on.

sythiri 2011-05-02 16:07

I guess that level is very badly optimised, had to throw some bits of it together pretty quickly. I'll try to sort it as soon as I can.

little-angel 2011-05-03 13:19

Couldn't get this to work on the Mac. Just a white box.

frib 2011-05-03 20:58

I have bad performance at the grassy level as well. The game itself is decent but a bit repetitive, but I don't know what comes during or after that grassy level. Good job though.

the-jack 2011-05-04 15:11

Love these Poke-battlers!

I could bypass the guys and still get an item.

qrunchmonkey 2011-05-06 03:50

When you get to the grass level, the game basically becomes unresponsive. Also, the items don't appear to have any effect(?) Sometimes I got an item without talking to one of the guys.

elbowroom 2011-05-06 13:00

Interesting game.. I have the same issue with the grass lvl..

switchbreak 2011-05-08 18:33

Fun idea. I had trouble telling what weapons I had or what they would do if I used them, I wound up just clicking everything and then hitting attack. Sometimes after battle I would randomly warp around the screen. Sometimes it seemed like the framerate was chugging pretty badly.

endurion 2011-05-12 12:04

You really shouldn't rename .jar files to .zip. Probably everybody without any java knowledge couldn't run it.

The 4th level is horrible slow. Before the battle sometimes feels very random. Sometimes I got killed, sometimes I won, even when I should have died from low HP.

joekinley 2011-05-12 20:09

Sadly no timelapse, but hey, maybe next time.
Nice little game. I guess it just is somehow buggy because somehow I ended up with more items in the inventory, and then some item just disappeared without me having used it before. I did not have problems in the grass level though, just died somewhere around there because the items did not seem to work all the time.

yrael 2011-05-13 05:19

A pity there's not much content and it gets laggy on level 4. I find it a bit repetitive too.

Maybe some description of what actually happens during a battle could have been fun, what with all the items :D