Caves of Chance
A downloadable game for Windows
Caves of Chance
After being evicted to make way for a new city project: a hole to China. You (the mole) must make one last trip through your home. See how deep you can get before being drilled to bits!
How to Play
Move through levels by running, jumping, and digging. Your digging ability is vital to moving through levels and getting to dice, but it is limited to dirt. You cannot dig through stone.
- Arrow keys to move
- Z to jump
- X to dig (arrows to aim)
As you dig, you'll find dice buried in the dirt. Collect the ordinary dice, but avoid mimics (with 1s on every side). They will stun you!
After a level, use your dice to gamble on each of your stats:
 | Jump Height |
 | Run Speed |
 | Light Radius |
 | Stun Duration |
 | Mimic Chance |
Credits
All code and art made by me (Peas_N_Carrots) for the GMTK game jam.
The music for this game, The Walls are Shifting, was made by Spruce Studios (spruce-studios.itch.io)
For sound effects, I used free sounds from zapsplat.com
Download
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Development log
- Caves of Chance (Post Jam)Jul 27, 2022
Comments
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your work is great! We're currently hosting a game jam. Are you interested in participating? https://itch.io/jam/scratch-game-jam-03
Thanks for the kind words. I don't have time right now for the jam, but I'll consider it in the future.
Your work has left a deep impression on me, and we would really like to invite you to participate, either as a judge or a contestant. We hope to receive your response!
Scratch Game Jam is a 14-day-long Scratch game development jam that occurs every month on itch. I believe there will be a jam session that can align with your schedule.
https://itch.io/jam/scratch-game-jam-06
Actually, is it okay if I use a game I have like partly finished? I will consider it if I can use something I'm already sort of working on but I'm not going to make something all new.
Of course, you can update your past works and submit them. We do not restrict the use of editors.
I tried the new version, post jam, and it is a real improvement over the jam version. I feel like there are too many mimic dice, and I had a problem where I couldn't roll my last die for some reason at the end of level 2, ended with only 1 in jump, and fell into a place I couldn't get out of.
It's still feels a bit empty, at least after the first level. More gameplay elements would add a lot to the game. For example you could add blocks that need to be drilled twice, pipes that transport the player somewhere else, or bombs that break blocks but can also harm the player.
Anyway, good job, I had fun with it!
Thanks for the suggestions! All good ideas. I may revisit this game later and add some of those things.
Hello! Can you credit the music to my new itch.io account (this one?) Thanks! Oop I should probably actually prove this account is mine. I'll reply to this message on my other one confirming. Tysm :)
Yup. That’s me.
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Thank you :D Just link to https://spruce-studios.itch.io/ instead of crazyboycodes.com :)
I didn’t think you would enter! Very well done on your game :) Unfortunately I don’t have Windows so I can’t play it, but the description makes it sound really interesting :)
Thanks! The jam build is a bit rough so you aren't missing out on too much. By the way, would you like to do a track for the post jam build. I'm not planning on putting too much time into the game so it wouldn't need to be your best work if your interested.
Yup! I could do that :) What do you want it to be like?
Fast paced and cave-like! (maybe lots of reverb or something idk)? the way the game works is that you have to dig through a cave and collect dice before being smashed by a massive wall of drills!
I’m going for a sort of funky-reverby-fast-paced-upbeat sort of thing. Good?
should be great