Psychotic
02-14-2009, 05:03 AM
The all important link. (http://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=4017.0)
What is Spelunky? What, besides addictively brilliant? It's a platformer where you play as a rather thinly veiled Indiana Jones clone, whip, fedora and clown nose included.
Perhaps the best bit about it, if we disregard the fact that you can rescue damsels in distress and then throw them at enemies as projectiles and use them to spring traps, is that the levels are all randomly - yet intelligently - generated. This means that unlike most platformers where you have to memorise the level and get frustrated at a certain point, with this it's always fresh and new.
You will die. You will die a lot. I have died 300 times and I think I only made it past halfway once. But it's fun to die in this game. At least, it is for me!
Anyway I'm sure most of you will think "Huh that sounds cool" and then skip over the thread and not bother to download it. Fair enough. However, I'm sure there'll be one person out there who will download it and will enjoy it as much as I do. 'sup, soulmate? This thread is for you. :kiss:
PS: You can steal from the shop. Don't.
What is Spelunky? What, besides addictively brilliant? It's a platformer where you play as a rather thinly veiled Indiana Jones clone, whip, fedora and clown nose included.
Perhaps the best bit about it, if we disregard the fact that you can rescue damsels in distress and then throw them at enemies as projectiles and use them to spring traps, is that the levels are all randomly - yet intelligently - generated. This means that unlike most platformers where you have to memorise the level and get frustrated at a certain point, with this it's always fresh and new.
You will die. You will die a lot. I have died 300 times and I think I only made it past halfway once. But it's fun to die in this game. At least, it is for me!
Anyway I'm sure most of you will think "Huh that sounds cool" and then skip over the thread and not bother to download it. Fair enough. However, I'm sure there'll be one person out there who will download it and will enjoy it as much as I do. 'sup, soulmate? This thread is for you. :kiss:
PS: You can steal from the shop. Don't.