Thanks - you make good points! For a high score you need to do just one trip, and then head all the way to the end of the dungeon to find the golden biscuit which will double the value of your gold. Gold found further into the dungeon is worth more as well. Of course we didn't mention any of that which makes it hard to know.
Maybe there shoud just be one trip in, and the level ends after you exit - then you can go to a new level or something, needs some thought. We also want to add some more things to slow you down, maybe enemies - but just to slow you down, not to become a shooter
Thanks for playing on your stream! Your previous run (where you failed to escape) had over 370 gold... but it counts for nothing if you don't get out with the cash :-)
I like what you have done - like a bigger version of Robotron. However the camera movement triggered my motion sickness - I'm not sure that it is needed, if the camera just stuck with the player I think it would still be good
Nice idea - the gameplay has a flaw that the lower-level donuts keep respawning but with no danger near them, so if you are patient you can get a high score... I was not patient :-) Aparrently I will go too far for one more donut - great theme!
Yes the levels are built from a random assortment of prebuilt rooms, including special treasure rooms. They are joined together until the dungeon reaches a certain depth and then one last biscuit room is added. The rooms are of different sizes and there is some clever code to join the rooms together, including mirroring some of them for more variety
If you play enough you can learn the visual clues to to help go further.
Eg there is a room that has two paths either up or down. If you see a cobweb just before that, take the upper path otherwise take the lower. This helps you go deeper without backtracking, for higher scores.
Web based dungeon plundering - but make sure you get out before the timer runs out! But if you only have a touchscreen the skip for now, needs a keyboard to work well
Great little idle game - I left it running for quite a while while watching youtube, coming back to level up my gear now and then. nicely polished for a gamejam game
Thanks - I think the stutter occurs the first time it plays each of the sounds (eg coin, music, rumble), something specific to the web version - will try to optimize after the jam
Pretty polished game for a gamejam. The UI needs a little work, I couldnt really work out the upgrades (or maybe I couldnt afford them) - but well done getting a complete game done for the Jam
Why am I still playing this? I love such a simple concept that has me wanting to try again and again. Didn't understand why I couldnt buy stuff after a while though. Plenty of cash but it wouldnt let me buy anything
Ours was mostly successful - apart from that one time where we collided in Git with both people editing the same file that was not able to be merged, lost a bit of work due to rushing. Next time we'll split the project up even more to make that less likely. That and the braindead decision to try and make the UI work with just three keys (left, right, jump) when everyone has a perfectly good mouse they could use to click on things. It made sense at the time, but not afterwards! Was treating it like an arcade game with a stick and button rather than a web game