Ei, thanks for that, the music department appreciates the complement. All exactly bonkers live recorded, layered like a cake, mixed in with my lunatic ravings as the side dish. Glad you liked it and the game 🤘thanks for giving it a spin!

Many thanks for giving the depths a hefty dive, we're glad to hear that its dark pits can shine brightly.

It was a lot of fun to put together, the audio side very intentionally was recorded to express some silliness to match the colorful art contrasting the gloomy dangerous pits. That and I tried to make absolutely sure when recording all the layers for the music that it allows for ramping up the intensity through extended play and will not start feeling too repetitive. To make sure of that, I recorded 5 guitar and 5 bass tracks looped with the layered drums then we rigged it to switch up the guitar and bass tracks as you arrive at each floor during your descend.

Hope the intent landed well.

Thank you for the compliment and we're very glad to hear that the dark pits of the perilous depths brought you joy!

It's not every day that such a deep dark bleak place full of deadly hazards can bring much joy, so it's wonderful to hear it can.

Awesome, glad to hear you enjoyed the game. Oh my yes, the circle strat is definitely real, I am now very curious to hear how far you managed to count DOWN! knowing this totally valid strat, also if you managed to still nap a hefty sum of gold coins while you were at it. Those coins can incite sometimes hazardous risk taking that isn't always to the benifit of the continued descent. The "gotta catch 'em all" urge can be deadly..

Also another key strat that can prove useful is the jumping strat. You can - if timed just right - jump over explosions as they occur. The window for success there is intentionally by design quite narrow, so it is an optional risk and a means to skillfully save yourself from a sticky explosive situation.

Very happy to hear you had a good time with our game, the challenge was a ..uhm.. a challenge to tweak just right, but I am confident you'd be able to ascend - or in this case descend - to deep diver stardom with enough practice. Either that or hoard copious amount of wealth, why collect cold coins? Clearly the answer is why not!? Just ask a Magpie 😁

Thank you again Robin for having a go at it last night, very happy to hear you had such a positive reaction to it, means a lot to hear.

We're definitely inspired to explore what depth we can scrounge up if exploring the down deeper, in case that bares fruit, or explosives, I'll let you know 🤘

In the meantime, keep on staying awesome!

And oh yes, I'll let you know if I find some hair from a dog that bit me, maybe I'll find it in the dark corners of the earth. Never know when it might come in handy... Stan! 😂

That and I'm totally hyped to give your game a proper go later tonight.

Thank you, glad you enjoyed it, likewise back at your with your game. I am stilling scrounging time as I can to dive into more game submissions each day, and I had a good time with your game as well.

Thank you, very glad to hear you enjoyed spelunking these dark depths and that some of its inhabitants made a good impression!

The perilous depths are indeed never depleted of time or challenge and always welcome with an explosive embrace. 😁

Thank you for the compliment and for giving the game a spin, in my opinion the measure of skill is secondary to enjoyment, the Perilous Depths accepts all equally!

Haha, thanks for that, glad to hear my voiced and mixed recordings landed the intended effect. 😁

You may not have appeased the Down Counter, but have your pockets been filled with coin? These are both important measures of accomplishments in the Perilous Depths!

Seek the mumbling wisdom of Denzo, for they hold answers.

Many thanks for the great feedback, you clearly figured out the optional jump-dodging technique, it's risky but can be effective. As you say, a skilled jumper might become a deep diver while lacking in the splendors of accumulated wealth!

I will gladly give your game a spin, be that it would need 5 min or more.

Yes, you have a very valid point regarding the lack of tutorialization / orientation of any kind, it quite possibly my have been needed, and a GIF or two is a good suggestion for it. While jamming the game together we decided - perhaps too harshly so - to let the player stumble their way into learning the nuances, leaning into the intended quick pace of the game and ease of diving back in. We opted for the risky move of relying on the visual clarity during play communicating and teaching the mechanics as you play - perhaps a bit much, maybe. This is yet another one of those challenges in design, it can become its Achilles heel, it's always tricky to assess how much information to front load to the player without wearing out their patience or breaking the game flow. This is definitely well noted if we continue fleshing out the Perilous DEPTHS onwards.

Big props on the 230m depth reached, you've definitely managed to reach a significant count DOWN! (I've just gotten 180m so far, but 73 gold collected)

Completely agree on making the money useful, it fell outside the jams scope unfortunately, as multiple other features did. It at least made it in as the additional High score metric🤘

Thank you! I'll make sure the compliments land with the creative mind that spawned these creations from their mind magic! 🧙‍♂️🪄

Now that's an accolade to get behind, Flapjack is yarr di harr great! Thanks for the complement, I'll pass it along to Einar the stylus savant himself.

No, do not talk yourself down like that, it is the natural effect of the Perilous Depths. They are intimidating, a challenge to conquer and tame - if at all possible. Perseverance overcomes this effect, you can do it! Become a  bon a fide deep diver and or as rich as a leprechaun hoarding gold under their rainbow, just in the deep darkest least rainbow-like place there could be.

Thank you for the kind words, well noted if we expand the concept onwards, we're definitely feeling the inspiration spirit after churning this out, was a lot of fun to make.

It's as deep as you are willing to go! Naturally that can be scary.

We had scoped progression on how deep it goes with key variations occurring along the decent, however as naturally occurs in Game jams, we had to set our goals within reasonable limits, so it is endless.

So in the current state, the limit is only your daring, how deep can you dive and how much gold coins can you grab before succumbing to the chaos of the Perilous Depths.

Thanks for the compliments, we appreciate it very much, exactly the mark we were going for cute and creepy.

Thank you for the compliments, I'll send the regards to the master artisan behind the characters and general art design.

Adventure time ho!

Thank you for playing, glad you enjoyed it,. Extra fun to hear you enjoyed my improvised voice recorded sound effects 😁