

Meeting up with fellow robot Curly Brace and a selection of other characters, Quote must save the Mimingas and scientists from The Doctor, a rogue Mad Scientist who seized the magic helmet known as the Demon Crown and is trying to raise an army of robot soldiers and zombified Mimingas to Take Over the World. You play as Quote, a mysterious robot who finds his way to a village of bunny-like people called Mimiga, who are housing a team of scientists that came to study the caves. The game thrusts you into the action with no explanations, forcing you to figure out the plot by yourself as you go. You might just come for the fun, Mega Man-style gameplay, but the story is what you will end up staying for.Ĭave Story is a freeware Metroidvania game by Daisuke Amaya, aka Studio Pixel. Then you have to go to a different cave, followed by. You shoot your way out of the cave, so you can get to a village in another cave.
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Instead of just making new game plus be like the campaign again but harder, we are adding new enemies and weapon types into new game plus, and the one “true” story ending to the game will be at the end of the new game plus playthrough.You wake up in a cave. Another tier of weapon upgrades will open up, leading towards a god-tier final form for each weapon. After finishing the campaign (124 levels or so), new game plus mode will open up. The biggest change is that we are adding a new game plus mode, which will give players a lot more reasons to come back and keep playing. We’ve taken a lot of the feedback we received from the first two games and are putting it to use while developing Cally’s Caves 3. So, what’s in store for Cally on her next adventure?Ĭally’s Caves 3 is another chance for us to aspire to make the best platformer on iOS. After the wonderful time we had with Cally’s Caves 2, we decided to put the puzzle game we were working on to the side and try to keep the ball rolling with the Cally franchise. If you finished the bonus levels in Cally’s Caves 2, or follow us on Twitter or Soundcloud, you probably know that we have been working on Cally’s Caves 3 for some time now. This shouldn’t come as a shock to anyone reading this. When the player first sees a boss, the game camera focuses solely on the boss object, to highlight the size of the sprite, and make sure players get a good look at the boss before the fight kicks in. To account for this (and maintain the large size), we decided to implement a better boss introduction mechanic. This presents a unique challenge, as some of the boss sprites are so big, they won’t fit on the in-game screen. While we are happy to keep going in that direction, we know that we want to have some enemies or bosses that are quite large on the screen. We managed to get away with it by zooming in a little bit on the assets, so they appear larger on an iOS screen that 32×32 pixels. This Dev Diary will outline many of the design decisions we made during the planning phase of Cally’s Caves 3 development.Ĭally’s Caves 1 and 2 were made of art assets that were mostly 32×32 pixels. Then, we can use our experience making the first two games to make Cally’s Caves 3 bigger, and much better. We are proud of our first two games, but it’s always helpful to take a step back and try to evaluate what you’ve created from a different perspective. One of the biggest benefits of creating a direct sequel is that it gives us an opportunity to do things differently. When we came to the decision to make Cally’s Caves 3, we knew that we would have to radically rethink many of the gameplay mechanics that were in Cally’s Caves 1 and 2.
