Hi there! We are a gaggle of recreation builders, tentatively often known as Hosico Studios, and are at the moment on our alpha construct for Cavelit. It is a 2D platformer recreation with components of survival and sandbox, the place you’re trapped in a cave and should discover the cellphone you dropped inside its depths.

For the alpha construct, we targeted on including juice (visible and sound), making modifications based mostly on suggestions on earlier builds, and finalizing the options we wished within the recreation. A big a part of this iteration was redesigning our ranges (and offering clearer steerage). We made modifications to ranges to scale back confusion in gamers: routes have been made to be extra clear, button immediate tutorial minimized and repositioned, and an general repair to the aesthetics (lacking tiles or background, sharper mild borders, and so forth.). Another main objective was so as to add extra juice, as was prominently highlighted in playtest suggestions. To this finish, we added an number of audio results, from an ambient cave BGM to sound results for explosions and turbines. We additionally added extra visible components, largely in the best way of the menu UI and scene transitions. In phrases of modifications in elementary core mechanics, we refined our checkpoint system. We seen that the gameplay was a bit irritating when the participant dies after they spend a very long time in our recreation. The checkpoint system helps us to raised restrict the issue of the whole recreation. We have additionally launched toxic gasoline, which we’re nonetheless exploring in the way it can add to the general expertise when enjoying by a degree.

For the subsequent iteration (our beta construct), we plan to proceed including to the general juice within the recreation, largely in additional audio and visible results. We additionally plan to refine the foremost options that we added on this construct: lava and poison gasoline. These will hopefully give as higher obstacles from which to construct up extra complicated recreation ranges, of which can be a bigger focus as we at the moment are creating with the belief that the present construct is characteristic full. Additional targets of refinement embody ropes, dynamite, and destroyables. And lastly, we goal to incorporate some plot scenes to provide somewhat extra taste to the sport, each within the type of in-game scenes and a trailer.

A couple of snapshots of our recreation:

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Links to obtain:
Windows: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vBdzlnpbWiBpKx4GTSazS_P6wP9BGaio/view?usp=share_link
Mac: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1o4tQGNFXoZQszlRB7bByJcTzzZrs0hv4/view?usp=share_link