I've started playing Cave In and plan on playing it a little several evenings a week and writing out the path I take and what I find in certain rooms. Just wondering if anyone else has been playing it and has any tips.
Tonight I came across a strange room. I was in a yellow room which looked to be a dead end. I snooped around looking for a key and when I got to the upper right corner all of a sudden I was in a green room with four ways out with a letter in each corner= W, B, G, and Y. I think it was a "G" anyway. I'm not sure what the letters mean, but I tried to go back the way I came to get to the yellow room, but ended up in a green room with a gate but I do not have the key yet for it and I can't get back to the room with the letters. I might try tomorrow and retrace my path to see if I can get to that letter room again and try another path and see where it takes me. Anybody else found that room? The manual doesn't mentioned letters. I thought it was an Easter Egg, but, since I can't re-trace my steps after finding it, it threw a monkey wrench in the text map I was writing out.
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Started by Miss 2600, Sep 23 2010 9:28 PM
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Posted Fri Sep 24, 2010 8:56 AM
Congrats Miss 2600, I do believe you've found one of the secrets in Cave In! Read the manual for it if you haven't already, it talks about that room at the end of the manual.(v1.2 manual that is)
Also, I've got a map of the entire cave system of the game, however I don't know if it's the latest though, PM me if you want it.
Cave In is such an awesome adventure game, it's a shame we never saw anything like this back in the 2600's hayday.(and Secret Quest still can't touch it IMHO, even though I loved it too)
Also, I've got a map of the entire cave system of the game, however I don't know if it's the latest though, PM me if you want it.
Cave In is such an awesome adventure game, it's a shame we never saw anything like this back in the 2600's hayday.(and Secret Quest still can't touch it IMHO, even though I loved it too)
Edited by Bentley Bear!, Fri Sep 24, 2010 9:01 AM.
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Posted Fri Sep 24, 2010 12:27 PM
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Posted Fri Sep 24, 2010 9:36 PM
I made a complete map of the finished version of the game. It's well-worth the effort to map it all out as you're playing. For me, that was part of the fun.
I haven't posted the map anywhere, but maybe I'll put it up in my blog at some point (in spoiler and non-spoiler versions).
I haven't posted the map anywhere, but maybe I'll put it up in my blog at some point (in spoiler and non-spoiler versions).
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Posted Sat Sep 25, 2010 6:58 PM
I've been listing where I've been going on notebook paper. I made a lot of progress last night. I found all three keys and one part of the crown (behind the yellow gate). I couldn't get through the green gate, so I'm assuming you have to get all parts of the crown first.
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Posted Sun Oct 10, 2010 11:19 PM
Miss 2600, on Thu Sep 23, 2010 9:28 PM, said:
I've started playing Cave In and plan on playing it a little several evenings a week and writing out the path I take and what I find in certain rooms. Just wondering if anyone else has been playing it and has any tips.
Tonight I came across a strange room. I was in a yellow room which looked to be a dead end. I snooped around looking for a key and when I got to the upper right corner all of a sudden I was in a green room with four ways out with a letter in each corner= W, B, G, and Y. I think it was a "G" anyway. I'm not sure what the letters mean, but I tried to go back the way I came to get to the yellow room, but ended up in a green room with a gate but I do not have the key yet for it and I can't get back to the room with the letters. I might try tomorrow and retrace my path to see if I can get to that letter room again and try another path and see where it takes me. Anybody else found that room? The manual doesn't mentioned letters. I thought it was an Easter Egg, but, since I can't re-trace my steps after finding it, it threw a monkey wrench in the text map I was writing out.
Tonight I came across a strange room. I was in a yellow room which looked to be a dead end. I snooped around looking for a key and when I got to the upper right corner all of a sudden I was in a green room with four ways out with a letter in each corner= W, B, G, and Y. I think it was a "G" anyway. I'm not sure what the letters mean, but I tried to go back the way I came to get to the yellow room, but ended up in a green room with a gate but I do not have the key yet for it and I can't get back to the room with the letters. I might try tomorrow and retrace my path to see if I can get to that letter room again and try another path and see where it takes me. Anybody else found that room? The manual doesn't mentioned letters. I thought it was an Easter Egg, but, since I can't re-trace my steps after finding it, it threw a monkey wrench in the text map I was writing out.
Yep, you found one of the "secrets" in the game.
That room is what I always referred to as the "warp room", and the W, B, G, and Y represent the White, Blue, Green, and Yellow cave. Whichever direction you choose will take you directly to that cave's entrance. I made that room particularly difficult to find, you're probably the first to have found it. It's very useful once you know how to get back to it! I originally put it in there to make it easier for me to get around when I was developing the game and then decided to leave it in as a hidden room.No one has found the actual easter egg room yet. I made it really difficult to find, though. It does provide an in-game bonus, so it's worth finding. There's also a built in "cheat" to the game (with another in-game bonus) that I don't think anyone has discovered yet either.
Have fun, and thanks for playing my game!
Steve
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