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Visiting the Mushrooms by Ryan Melmoth

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made by Ryan Melmoth for LD30 (COMPO)
It's a randomly generated trippy exploration game. If you like exploring strange caves with bizarre ambient music, then this game is for you!

Every second time you enter full screen mode it may resize the game beyond borders of your monitor, so try to avoid that if you can (bug with Stencyl, not my fault!)

Windows only right now because I don't have a Mac, sorry about that!

Buttons:
Left/Right to walk
Up/Z to jump
Enter to toggle fullscreen
A to reset

Made in Stencyl. (Stencyl is awesome!) Gfx in Paint Tool SAI and GIMP, sfx & music in FL Studio and from my musical instruments and my face.

For the first time I successfully finished the Ludum Dare competition, whooo!!! And not to toot my own horn, but I'm EXTREMELY happy with how the game itself turned out. I find myself getting addicted to playing it (or maybe that was just procrastination)... hope other people enjoy it as well!

If you want to follow me I have a twitter here: https://twitter.com/RyanMelmoth
Windows http://gamesforweirdpeople.com/games/mushrooms/VisitingtheMushrooms.zip
Source http://gamesforweirdpeople.com/games/mushrooms/VisitingtheMushrooms.stencyl
Original URL https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-30/?action=preview&uid=27112

Ratings

Coolness 66% 3
Overall 3.14 628
Audio 3.49 142
Fun 2.72 830
Graphics 3.47 329
Humor 2.63 378
Innovation 2.69 894
Mood 3.47 184
Theme 2.64 925

Feedback

togie
24. Aug 2014 · 13:56 UTC
Haha heavy metal - the game! i love the thought put into the intro and loading screen alot! but i found the game to be a little buggy
MJamesShort
24. Aug 2014 · 17:30 UTC
Love it! You need a MAC build?
HotBoxGames
24. Aug 2014 · 17:54 UTC
The random generation worked really well, wasn't 100% sure what I was meant to be doing but as an exploration game was pretty good!
varun
25. Aug 2014 · 05:39 UTC
Presentation is really fantastic - sometimes the randomly generated levels can be difficult to traverse.
donan
25. Aug 2014 · 05:45 UTC
Cool game :D
skymarionsky
25. Aug 2014 · 06:13 UTC
psychedelic!!
kidando
25. Aug 2014 · 06:16 UTC
Not sure what I just played, but loved it. that was some awesome music. metal rocks. Congrats on finishing the game
MrTedders
25. Aug 2014 · 07:50 UTC
weird, creepy, strangely engaging. It was a interesting time.
Hypnohustla
25. Aug 2014 · 08:32 UTC
Weird game. As expected. :D Graphics were nice, animations were a bit choppy but the sound effects made up for that. :) The audio also added a lot to the mood, great job on that department.
Alexandre Szybiak
25. Aug 2014 · 11:45 UTC
Well, this was weird :D I liked the attack of the mushrooms.
panurge
25. Aug 2014 · 12:20 UTC
I didn't know I liked exploring caves with bizarre ambient music until just now but I definitely do! This was just a really great experience. Love the art style and the sounds, they work together perfectly to create the mood.
Hyoga-3D
25. Aug 2014 · 14:08 UTC
Good art, but what is that "bee" screen ??
Colorvade
26. Aug 2014 · 04:52 UTC
The best.
alvivar
27. Aug 2014 · 02:06 UTC
I liked a lot. The walking feels pretty cool.
jjhaggar
27. Aug 2014 · 20:49 UTC
Original theme but a little bit agressive graphics.
ix
27. Aug 2014 · 20:57 UTC
You've made something really weird. And as much as there is not much to the gameplay, I do want to collect more mushrooms to see what the next world is...
arhpositive
27. Aug 2014 · 21:01 UTC
As of this moment this game is among the best games I've played so far in this Ludum Dare. Music is incredible. Randomly generated caves are excellent, perhaps not because of their layout but because of the art style and the attention to detail.

Keep up the good work!
MunkeeBacon
27. Aug 2014 · 21:14 UTC
I love trippy games, this is pretty crazy! I dig it, plays well!
Victory Garden
27. Aug 2014 · 21:32 UTC
Oh, wow. I normally hate exploration games but this was such a perfect combination of low quality assets, weirdness, and skilled procedural world generation that I enjoyed screwing around in it. I've got nothing to add--loved the walking animation and the blood-squirting mushrooms, this was brilliant.
parahunter
27. Aug 2014 · 21:44 UTC
Great to see more procedural stuff! :) The jump could use some more gravity so you fall faster when you reach the apex. Since you placed an emphasis on the dungeon I'd suggest spending some time on getting your generation to create more unique results. In general I liked the visuals though.
torcado194
28. Aug 2014 · 02:34 UTC
wow i LOVED this! this was an ultimate experience all the way through i love everything about it except that theres no goal, but it may not need one.
The environments and mood and everything were fantastic, and i continued to find new themes and music after like half an hour of playing it!
this was amazing great job
romandtom
16. Sep 2014 · 00:39 UTC
Dude, its super freaking cool!
Love that walk animation~