Caveman 2044
A downloadable game for Windows
A short narrative about a man who lives deep in the earth for reasons revealed in this story.
If you're here for the 17th RPG Maker Horror Game Jam, no web version is available as some core mechanics of the game can not work in a web deployment! Which mechanics aren't web-deployment compatible? Play and see :)
This game may contain flashing lights and disturbing content. Player discretion is advised.
Known *unintentional* bugs:
- Mouse wheel does not work at the ending
"Hey, my game closed out!"
Reopen the game if that happens. wink ;)
Download
Install instructions
Unzip and run Game.exe
Development log
- Version 1.1 bug fixesMay 01, 2023
Comments
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i didnt expected the bugs, since i didnt read the description before downloading so it was a very different experience, when the pc crashed i rlly thought it was mine. didnt expected the ending too, very nice game
I did get a small error, if I clicked off the screen and clicked back on it would go black, and if I clicked 'x' i got something saying "TypeError" and then under it "Cannot read property 'resolution' of undefined. I'll try to play it without doing it again, so hopefully it's just a bug at the beginning of the game.
Are you also running a computer with low specs? It looks like the browser's garbage collection tossed out an important object too soon
Maybe that's it, I was playing on my laptop lol. I was able to get past it and play the game, mostly properly, it was something I kept running into but it wasn't consistent thankfully and I saved a lot so everytime it was an issue I just restarted.
Great job by the way! I ended up really like the story and all of the glitchy effects, I like how cohesive everything turned out to be.
I should figure out if it's possible to prevent this from happening, I am guessing it's related to how my lighting plugin adds a slightly heavier load on the computer compared to most RPGmaker games
Possibly! Do you have other games that use the same plugin and have a similar issue?
https://gensun.itch.io/the-legend-of-babalu
This is the only other game with this plugin, but otherwise Caveman 2044 was the first game which I've gotten reports about this bug that's deleting important objects from memory on low spec computers
I really liked your game, a friend and I played it on my Youtube Channel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChRmo12TPeY
I gave it a watch, had a good chuckle from your reactions!
It seemed not obvious, but the guy's computer doesn't have wifi signals, but was connected with an extremely long ethernet cable to a router far away
Awesome glitch effects, especial lag in movement!