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Mysterious Cave

By vladimir-ins

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall6583.2251
Fun7162.8951
Innovation8172.4551
Theme7083.0651
Humor3113.1348
Mood5633.3651

Comments

sqqqwer 2025-04-07 23:53

Love the game's vibe! But a checkpoint at bonfires would be nice – it's rough restarting from the very end.

weirdbitgames 2025-04-07 23:55

I love the production value of the intro cutscene and dialogue. The bonfire sound is really atsmopheric too!

bakuzen 2025-04-08 00:59

The little bonfire animation has to be my favorite animation that I've seen during this jam so far :) The art and mood is very charming! I agree that checkpoints would've been nice, especially so people can easily see more of the game ^^ Great work to everyone!

gaspar 2025-04-08 08:47

The web version is cropped, and part of the controls is hidden for some reason. However, everything works fine in full-screen mode. mysterious-cave.png

Lovely pixel art and animations. However, the controls feel unresponsive, and upon dying you restart from the very beginning - I expected a bonfire checkpoint system instead.

plidomo 2025-04-08 09:11

The visuals are really special I think! Nice quick game, I like the additive effect of the pumpkin jumps. Once I got the hang of it I managed to complete it. Good effort!

ollulf 2025-04-08 11:46

Those metal renderings are CRISP *-* Very nice art! And good work for your first project.

placeholders 2025-04-08 13:07

Incredible art and animations! for a first unity project the is insane be proud! congrats :)

ottobroccoli 2025-04-08 13:17

Very good, the game is very enjoyable. As already voted in the comments, I would like to have checkpoints by the campfire, but otherwise it's great. =)

toupaks 2025-04-08 13:53

Pixelart is NEAT

soul-grinder 2025-04-08 14:31

Pretty fun hack n slash platformer and the graphics were pretty decent too!

lev-ramburg 2025-04-08 20:20

Solid game, I liked the vibe!

civ92 2025-04-08 22:23

Enjoyed the game general mood and speed. I am not sure that the goblins were damaging me though, as I finished with my health bar still full, and only could die in spikes ?

vladimir-ins 2025-04-09 03:29

@civ92 You can die from goblins and spikes. Thank you for the comment!

hdvr02 2025-04-09 15:53

I like how the character sprites are drawn, very nice work. However, the controls aren't very nice, jumping on those trampolines was a bit problematic and the enemies attack when I attack, it feels a bit unfair. Also I was a bit confused when sitting down at the campfires, and I didn't realize that you have to sit at them for a bit, it seemed a bit illogical. Anyway, good job you did a great job!

yanzhi 2025-04-09 17:02

visuals are so detailed! really love the art style and the little resting animation by the fire so petite so demure, would appreciate if there were save points so i dont have to go all the way back to the start :<

airgameboys 2025-04-09 17:40

When trying to play it I get this message on itch.io (the embed one doesn't work for me) {7DA6E0F2-B5E7-46FB-9B5E-F2248CC0FDFB}.png

garyglhf 2025-04-09 19:00

It's very beautiful, it went through to the end, It's just super nice to play.

vladimir-ins 2025-04-09 19:50

@airgameboys couldn't tell you the reason as it works well for me. Sorry to see that.

thegreatcarpet 2025-04-10 16:05

I REAAAALLY loved the visuals — it’s amazing that you managed to draw and animate all of that in just 3 days! Just wow. As for the gameplay, the only downside was the sudden camera shifts — it feels like it would’ve been better if the camera stayed at a fixed distance... Other than that, awesome job!

jscommander 2025-04-11 10:18

Very decent pixel art graphics! Huge respect. The gameplay is interesting, but it's slightly frustrating to start over from the very beginning after dyingб I expected bonfires to serve as checkpoints. Sometimes goblins kept moving even after dying, which was quite amusing to watch :)

xpoho 2025-04-11 17:48

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Неплохой пиксель-арт ^_^

А вообще - хорошее начало. Желаю дальнейшего развития и вдохновения ^_^

vladimir-ins 2025-04-11 18:09

@xpoho Спасибо огромное, рад что понравилось!

scoobysnacks 2025-04-12 16:12

i loved the opening scene.

euler-moises 2025-04-13 03:52

Good graphics and good soundtrack. The character designs are wonderful. I imagine that with more time the visual aspect of the scenario will gain more details and the battles will become more complex.

Good job. Congratulations!

piero-pbes-studio 2025-04-14 06:54

The graphics are magnificent but for me the mouse + keyboard handling is really complicated I don't understand this choice...and despite the campfires I go back to the beginning of the cave...

circleoflife 2025-04-14 14:17

The graphics look incredible. I intuitively figured out how to control, the platforming feels a little weird with the little pumpkin sprite that bounces you and the weird jumping physics. It also seems like the fire is supposed to save progress or heal you, but I still don't understand what it does? I also didn't take any damage from the goblins (maybe I did, but the HP bar didn't change). I'm really glad there's a menu, it's always a big plus for me when I can control the volume of the game and music.

vladimir-ins 2025-04-14 16:32

@circleoflife fire heals you. Thanks for the comment!

vladimir-ins 2025-04-14 18:17

@piero-pbes-studio I wanted to add gamepad control, but unfortunately we didn't have time to do it. Thanks for your suggestions.

atsh 2025-04-16 18:32

Some of the sprites are really fantastic. I wish hitting enemies will carry more impact though

oeuegha 2025-04-18 03:46

Animations there are incredible, and like camera's approximation when u are afk, but i didn't get why didn't u add a checkpoint func to bonfire? Camera don't work quite well, cuz in jumping's segments u can't see where u need to jump. And i've found few bugs, first - if u kill goblin in a air, then his sprite will go out of bounds, second - once when i've been killing a goblin his sound were playing several times simultaneously. Gud luck!