Cave Crawler: A Retro Exploration Adventure

“Cave Crawler: A Retro Exploration Adventure” is exactly as described! Explore a large, 2-D open world with various towns and geographical features. Find tools along your journey, and use them to collect resources. Sell these resources at shops to earn money to buy items. Save up your money to upgrade and customize ‘Paradise City’, an island city far off the coast of the mainland that is in disrepair. Navigate your way through caves to fight bosses, and to find different endings along the way.

Tools:

• Pickaxe – Allows you to mine rocks, and can net you some ore and gems.
• Axe – Lets you chop down trees, and to collect wood.
• Shovel – Digs up fossils as well as other items, plant plants, allows you to find secret areas.
• Fishing Rod – Fishes up fish, in addition to other items.
• Sword – Use this tool to fend off various fiends.

Towns:

Each town is meant to introduce a new feature. That would work something like this:

• Town 1 (Miners Haven): Introduces the pickaxe, caves, mining, and is the first place where you’ll finds a shop.
• Town 2 (Lumberton): Introduces the axe and choppable trees.
• Town 3 (Digsburg): Introduces the shovel, digging, fossils, and planting.
• Town 4 (Rivers Edge): Introduces the fishing rod and fishing.
• Town 5 (Smithland): Introduces the sword and fighting .
• Paradise City: Introduces more customizability.

The numerical order of the towns you visit is arbitrary, as you’ll be able to choose which ones you want to visit, and in what order. These towns will function as a tutorial of sorts, with NPC’s to teach you how to complete tasks.

The Game Itself:

These are the most important features that will be a part of the game:

• Variable length gameplay. The game will be as long as you make it. (Will at least feature a few hours of content).
• Large, open-world map, with various sub-areas.
• A story, with lore spread throughout the game.
• Bosses of different calibers.