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it's flood season, dig caves to redirect an inevitable rising water until you can save everyone
Also available on itch.io for binaries https://nusan.itch.io/flooded-caves
This game has been made in 48h for game jam Ludum Dare 50
Your digging power is limited, it recharges over time. At regular interval, you can save someone by sending your rescue team
You can play the game using a keyboard (action is key C ), a gamepad or a mouse
This is really clever how the water physics have balance between predictability and randomness to give the player interesting decisions.
I saved everyone on a really hard level, but it did feel really hard.
It would be a very different game, but would the physics support having some rafts (that float) sitting around the bottom of the map, and the way you save people is to guide a raft to them and then make sure it carries them the rest of the way to the surface as the level fills?
Very nice! I had a lot of fun with this one, and I'll definitely be playing it more. The water physics was a little counterintuitive for me - I kept expecting pressure to force water up from below, but then I started thinking of the water more like sand and that helped a lot. That might be for the best gameplay-wise, though, I think it likely makes for more interesting decision-making. Great game.
Great game, but the water pyhsics were a little odd. I think @luchakis right and thinking of the water as sand helped to determine where it would go. But this didn't stop the game from being loads of fun.
A very simple and effective game that is well executed.
@NuSan : A suggestion (that you can ignore): In the game it obviously makes sense to get the lower trapped humans first. To add more challenge to the game, you could implement a points system where higher points are given for rescuing humans trapped lower later in the game. The score for rescuing a human is the Y position multiplied against number of humans already rescued.
This is a really fun game! Thanks for making it.
I've been playing on the "really hard" difficulty level for a while, and I've found a strategy that works most of the time. When it works, it becomes quite easy to save all 18 people. But every now and then the cave layout doesn't make it possible, and the game gets hectic.
@cmounce haha, impressive technique, I added the second water stream late in dev as a way to balance and make it more tense at the end, and also to counter the FPS slow down
Interestingly I managed to make an optimized version that run full speed but I can't balance it properly to keep the tense and hectic at the end
I'm really enjoying playing this game. The gameplay is well balanced and I find it so satisfying digging through the rock and moving the shape of the water. I keep coming back to it for a quick blast.
One technique to save drowning people is that their "drowning meter" resets when they fall. So if they are submerged you can keep them alive longer by letting them fall a little way then waiting, then repeating the process.
One other "game mode" you can play is: can you drown all the people (on easy level) before you are allowed to rescue the first person?
i somehow saved everyone in super hard on my first try, but 2 people (possibly more) did get close to drowning
Music is really awersome, difficulty is well balanced, did on mobile, normal, or eazy, i clicked on eazy idk, bad that it didnt worked normally in p8 player, just didnt showed out cave and only texture of logo in right upper corner :P
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