Crumbling Caves

This game has been made in 3 days for Ludum Dare 48.

In Crumbling Caves you play as a mole trying to escape a collapsing mine ... by going deeper and deeper into it...

Controls

• A/D: Move
• Left Mouse: Attack (Hold W for upwards attack)
  
• Right Mouse: Attack 2
  
• Mouse Wheel: Zoom
  
• Space: Jump
• Shift: Sprint
  
• E: Interact
• Q: Open map
• Esc: Menu
  

Gameplay

On your path downwards you generate the layout on the fly and need to progress from checkpoint to checkpoint to escape the danger coming from above. Building the mine's layout requires blueprints which you collect by defeating enemies you encounter. Try to always connect from one checkpoint to another before heading out! Inside the checkpoint rooms time around you is frozen, so there is no need for hectic decisions.

Assets and Resources

All assets and resources have been created ourselves.

Post Jam Changelogs

Post Jam V1:

• Fixed an audio issue where the background music would not start on first room.
• Added a more noticeable visual indicator for cave collapsing.
• Balanced timer scaling of cave collapsing.

Post Jam V2:

• Re-enabled parallax effect of camera after it has been accidentally removed.
• Reduced dying delay of enemies.

Post Jam V3:

• Lava no longer insta-kills the player.
• Ants have been fixed so they can now also die when being knocked into lava.
• Fixed a bug where opened treasure chests would spawn unopened again when re-entering a room.
• Made some UI elements more understandable.