[New update]

New update

v0.85
+ Life forms Biography page with icons and adopter names
* Fixed blocking when clicking on some buttons (I think)
* Speedup when painting: no sudden lags because of refreshment of spawn locations

I would have loved to get the graphics
Morale: you just can't trust graphic artists  :D (Just kidding)

I think I'll beef up the filler graphics and post the game soon.

[Thanks]

This got a nice writeup over at JayIsGames: http://jayisgames.com/archives/2009/09/caverns.php

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Thanks for pointing this out Noyb, I just can't stop smiling... I would have never have read it otherwise.

It's really rad that someone took the effort to make a detailed walkthrough.
To the unknown soldier

But if you have to define DEBUG yourself, isn't the same deal?
I mean, it doesn't solve the fact that you must change something besides the compiler command line.
Same problem.

I think this is useful for people that forget to change stuff up between debug and release modes.

Regards

The failure goes on and on and on...

[Automatic conditional debug/release execution in ActionScript 3 (Flex 3)]

Automatic conditional debug/release execution in ActionScript 3 (Flex 3)

I made this little tutorial on how to detect if the Flash file was compiled in release or debug mode.
I don't know if someone else did this before, but if not, I hope you find it useful.

http://blog.tbam.com.ar/2009/09/automatic-conditional-debugrelease.html

Regards
-Martín

Hey, thanks 

Yup, that achievement is the hardest, but doable with some enviroment tweaking!

Unlickily the iPhone doesn't have flash yet, and I don't have cash to buy a Mac and port it.

[Noyb]

Ok, no new creatures but a menu, hints and an achievement system.


Thanks to Noyb for the idea to add a bio like in Tanaka's friendly adventure. Not yet but coming (he actually posted it on my LudumDare entry but editing the entry each time is a drag)

Regards

Thanks for the feedback. I never found that glitch, but spawn/death code in v0.7 has been reviewed thoroughly because I added a "coexisting creatures" counter now (for a to-be award system).
So perhaps it's solved now.
I'll upload v0.7 when I add add some more creatures.

Regards

My entry... Click click click



congrats to the others! Your games look great on the screenshots I should try them out (You were not in my 20 games list)

You can use the Glow tag and setting it to black to actually hide the spoiler (no SPOILER tags on Simple Machines Forums)

Consider that if the critters are 8x8 animals would be no more than 16x16  :D
I know it's hard to balance (I spend about half the developing time retrying the game, tailoring the gameplay balance details  )

Thanks!
-Martín

Wow, so much feedback . Thanks!

I'm really glad some of you found the mold turquoise crawler and the little green worms, I thought those were hard to figure out (frustratingly boringly hard )

One question: About how much time did you spend playing?


To answer some of your comments:

I'm planning to expand it. I did it in about 10 hours (my girlfriend came for the weekend so I couldn't put more hours on it).
My idea is to make more critters, more plants, more combinations and even "animals" (a bit bigger creatures, with some needs to sustain life).

The dirt is a neutral filler (for now at least). It does nothing whatsoever.

I just wanted to say that there is some sort of whacky logic behind the creatures.
Spoiler:
I mean, tar and lava "ignites" a flame moth, plants need watering, water and seed create a plant,
But still I accept that water and fire do not create little manatees XD (the real reason is that blue+red is violet ;] )
The basic ones can get the experimentation thingy working and after that you'll have to think laterally and go "trial and error".

Thanks a lot again and good luck!
-Martín

Gah my artist after a week still hasn't contacted me . I really want to see how this is going to turn out
If he doesn't contact Ill just post the game with filler graphics

I was contacted but never actually got the graphics.

Strangely the game is somewhat like the one with a big beard man on the background :D

[Caverns:]

Caverns: An experimentation game.
It's about tiny life forms coexisting in a cavern.

Try to find them all!
Mess around with the enviroment
and free your imagination.

It's my entry for the ludum dare #15.

Play the game (Flash): http://www.tbam.com.ar/play--caverns.php
LudumDare entry: http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-15/?action=preview&uid=937

Regards
-Martín

I think it's cool that the clouds shout "solidness", as they're solid enought for you to try to jump on them.
But Eclipse has a point. Perhaps not changing the color but with a bit less contrast (and more brightness to compensate) it would look softier.

"Zombies... I fucking hate those sneaky buggers."

Hey, I haven't seen your post before, must have skipped it! Those are awesome ideas!!!

The competition ends tomorrow so they wont be on the gameplay, but perhaps I will add them on the future.

Thanks!

also there are bugs. when you are in front facing a wall and trying to kick a cat into the wall it wont explode.

This is actually intentional. But I never thought deeply about why I did it  :D


(Beta 0.5)
* Enhanced tilesets, better contrast (thanks darthlupi!)
* Tweaked gameplay, slower cats in first levels, customizable in versus play  (thanks darthlupi!)
+ New tileset: Beach
+ 9 levels
+ Screen between levels telling you where you're at (a bit incomplete thou)
* Redrawn character Iron Beard
* Fix: if 5 players were playing, one would get stuck in some levels

(Beta 0.12)
+ New customizations for Versus play:
........Matches
........Explosion radius: 1-5 or max (20)
........Max cats on screen: 3-25 or massive (50)
........Map: Backyard 1/2, Bronze 1/2
........Cats spawn rate: 0.25-3 secs (thanks Noyb!)
........Power up frequency: 1-16 secs (thanks Noyb!)
* More intuitive win screen for versus mode, with a character
* Bugfix: In campaign 2P mode if one player was dead the match never ended.
* Bugfix: Cat animations was incorrect when spawning from a cat house.

I'm working on an the animation of this ANGRY COMMUNIST

[There is a GIF file on this thread that's tingling my antivirus senses...]

You should caché the values on release. Like to a map or hash map.
Or else you'll be quering a lot, for each enemy creation.

Otherwise for debugging purposes it rocks, as you don't have to recompile to test anything. Change the DB, spawn enemy, check if it's ok. 



There is a GIF file on this thread that's tingling my antivirus senses...

[illegal]

I thought it was illegal to add (tm) or (r) if you didn't actually owned the trademark.

(c) on the other hand you freely can (hopefully if it's really your work), as It's automatic and copyrighting with an authority only helps in court cases.

You can see a whole lot of (tm)s in Edge's webpage archives