40 Caves User Documentation

About This Document

In this documentation we'll give a proper introduction to the gameplay of 40 Caves. Your goal is to collect all the shiny diamonds in the level and reach the exit in any possible way. This documentation was created in a very short time period so it's not all-inclusive and we'll update this documentation for the following patches.

Controlling the hero

Moving Character

40 Caves is a grid based game which means that the hero moves tile by tile. For example, it's not possible to walk left by a half length of tile.
You can command the hero to walk by hitting the button Arrow left or Arrow right.

Jumping.

Jumping

Hero can jump over excactly one tile if and only if there's a fall tile next to the hero. Technically the hero jumps when player hits buttons x + arrow left/right.
Please notice that hero can only drop himself, and consequently only the two first scenarios are possible in the included picture.

Climbing

Player can climb on obstacles by pressing buttons x + arrow left/right.
Assume that the current game conditions equals the conditions which are shown in the Wooden box picture (in the end of this document). Now player can climb on the wooden box by pressing x + arrow left.

Select Level

In 40 Caves player can select the level which he/she wants to play in the Level Select room. There are opened and closed doors in the Level Select room according to player's finesse: when player passes a new level, new door will be opened. Eg., if player wants to play the level number 5, player should walk to the door number 5 and hit Return key.

The List of Elements

Wooden box

Wooden box Wooden boxes are the simplest kind of puzzle elements in 40 Caves.
The player can push wooden boxes to different locations simply by moving to next to it (like in the included picture) and then control the location of the box simply by walking to the wanted direction. Player can also destroy wooden boxes with bombs. If player sets a bomb next to a wooden box, it'll explode.

Heavy box

Heavy box Heavy box can mostly be considered as a wooden box. However, the heavy box is a lot heavier than the wooden one, and consequently player can't push a group of overlapping boxes if there's a heavy box in the heap. Also these heavy boxes are made of stone and can't be destroyed with bombs.
There are no more differences between the wooden box and the heavy one so as said: the heavy box is approximately same object as the wooden one.

Bomb

Bomb Player can modify his environment by placing bombs. Player can command the hero to drop a bomb by pressing button z. After the drop there's 5 seconds time to escape and when the time has expired, the bomb will destroy everything next to it. That includes yourself if you aren't careful!
And remember: you've only a limited amount of bombs so use those wisely! There are also levels which you must solve without bombs.

Water tiles

Water tile Water tiles are designed to be obstacles for our poor hero who can't swim. When the hero enters to water tile, it'll be an instant dead for him and he's forced to start solving the puzzle from the beginning. However player can jump over the water tile if there's only one water tile in between the player and the safe tile. The player can also drop a box to the water tile to make a nice bridge for him.

Contact Us

We'd love to receive feedback about this game. If you want to contact us, check the readme.txt where you can find the detailed contact informations.