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Cliff Montana and the Caves of Insanity

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This game was intended to be an Indiana Jones-esque platformer with physics-based puzzles, combat, and terrain destruction with an emphasis on cooperative multiplayer. As you can image, it was way overscoped.

Though on indefinite hold, the current downloadable prototype features working physics, real time line-of-sight shadows, a then-unique hybrid single/split screen for cooperative multiplayer (I've since seen the Lego video games do the same trick), a crude implementation of terrain destruction, and time rewinding.

Instructions:

  1. Unzip Caves.zip to somewhere on your computer.
  2. Run Caves.exe. The game will open to the level editor.
  3. Click on the "file" menu and select "open".
  4. Select a level to play. Good levels are "Platforms" and "Multiplayer".
  5. Click on the "level" menu and select "test". Have fun!
  6. To return to the level editor, press Ctrl-Shift-F12.

Keyboard controls:

  1. Player 1: WASD keys to move and jump.
  2. Player 2: Arrow keys to move and jump.
  3. Hold BACKSPACE to rewind time!
  4. To return to the level editor, press Ctrl-Shift-F12.
  5. To open the options menu, press Ctrl-Shift-F11.