Spelunky Catch-all (Spelunky HD now on Steam!)

I f*cking saved Abraham Lincoln and he crushed me with the shield! Bastard!

I gotta say that Spelunky isn't a game I can play for long but when I do play it, it's always amazing. I've enjoyed watching Spelunky on youtube (Northernlion) for some time now, but I think it's slowly becoming one of my personal all-time favorite games.

PS - Key delivery mission completed! Only took me a few tries too which is nice. Thank goodness that Tunnel Man's tunnel goes through the mothership. Unfortunately I bonked my head one too many times against the UFOs before I could find the robot.

I had $1.05M while fighting Olmec tonight. I was well prepared for Hell with a jetpack, shotgun, all passives, hedjet, 20+ ropes, 15 bombs, 25 health and then I mysteriously got stunned while herding Olmec to dig his own tomb and got crushed to a pulp before I could recover. Had there been a vault in Hell I might have gotten $1.5M. So sad right now.

Entered Hell with about 900K and came out like this.

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It's good for #32 on XBLA right now. I didn't get the no-gold or co-op achievements but I think I can finally move on. My seed also goofed and skipped my mines vault. Had that appeared and I successfully ghosted it I would have been in the top 25. I'm still happy though.

Hello my fellow Spelunkers. How many of you would be interested doing a GWJ Spelunky Daily Leaderboard?

Basically we could just post the date , our score, and maybe a screenshot of the end screen.

I'm inspired by what Tom Francis has done with http://spelunkyexplorersclub.com/

I find it quite easy to get one run in a day, and my friends refuse to get the game.

I would enjoy it but, my low-scores these days are around 250K can anyone challenge that?

For me I generally get to the Ice Caves, which may not be fun for you, but perhaps others.

I'm game, though I'm not sure how competitive my scores will be.

Whew, made it to Yama for the first time on today's (Oct 6th) daily challenge. I actually had a ton of health going into Olmec due to the kapala and sacrifice bonus but because I didn't have any bombs I struggled to get to the exit. Then the enemies in hell were a pain, lost lots of health to some blue spikey headed demons jumping at me, but luckily I found a camera so at least I had a weapon. Had to dodge a bunch of shopkeepers who were in pretty bad spots for hell levels. I didn't even think I'd make it to Yama after that terrible Olmec fight, including a moment where I was in a 1x1 tile directly under Olmec and had to jump out as he was readying his slam. I thought I had a good chance after I blew up the two guardians at Yama who have bomb boxes, but then I lost a bunch more health trying to toss a blue devil into the lava. I should've just blown him up but I was still in a low bomb mentality. I said screw it and started jetpacking around him and up the chains but of course that's when a vampire jumped down from the ceiling and took out my last bit of health. Final score was 308 a new personal best thanks to ghosting a vault on the ice caves.

I loved the heck out of this game back in the way-back, before the new graphics and all that. I'm buying it now. How much of a difference should I be expecting in terms of depth? Also, if there are any Steam groups or anything, please add me.

Cyranix wrote:

I loved the heck out of this game back in the way-back, before the new graphics and all that. I'm buying it now. How much of a difference should I be expecting in terms of depth? Also, if there are any Steam groups or anything, please add me.

The game is still basically Spelunky. Depth-wise there isn't much in the way of story or anything, but the HD version has a bunch of new enemies and items. It also has several new levels and a new, optional world that comes after the temple for people looking for more of a challenge. Oh and it has multiplayer now. Unfortunately the MP is local-only.

Yeah, the differences to the base game are pretty subtle. Personally I've enjoyed playing the HD version more, but I can't point to any specific reason why. Did the original not have any of the secret levels?

Died on Yama again on today's challenge, but it was a much better run. 510k gold, ghosted vaults on the ice caves and temple. I was struggling with low health again and I almost had the sucker but I think I destroyed one too many cover blocks up top and he just spit a fireman on top of me. I was so proud too after three goddamn vampires jumped at me from the ceiling and I managed to avoid the triple threat of dying the same way as yesterday. Also the funny thing is I think that Yama died after I did due to a spike ball. I guess I just need to get better at avoiding stupid damage in hell and handling Yama.

Also, this was amazing:

Latrine wrote:

Yeah, the differences to the base game are pretty subtle. Personally I've enjoyed playing the HD version more, but I can't point to any specific reason why. Did the original not have any of the secret levels?

The original had the black market, the city of gold, and some of the special regular levels (snake pit, alien ship, wet fur level, etc.)

The original did not include....

Spoiler:

The worm, the castle level, the alien mothership, or hell.

@Latrine, my first two trips to Hell I defeated Yama then died to random enemies before making it to the exit.

My spoilered health strategy below has served me very well.

Spoiler:

Mummy vomit will fill up your Kapala for health. You can aggro their attack near the end of a ledge and rope to hang into the spray zone. You can get +15 health in 30 seconds easily this way. It's really easy to do on the city of gold.

Tonight was the second time I got to Hell. I only had 4 bombs left, and found myself between some spikes and a very aggro prone succubus...

Daily - 10/11/2013
Level - 5-1
Score - $397900

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=185006892

Greetings folks - I really liked theschap's suggestion about making a place to share Daily Challenge videos and scores, so I started a new thread specifically for that:

http://www.gamerswithjobs.com/node/116094

I'd also love to add folks to my Steam Friends list who are doing the dailies regularly - my steam ID is Danopian, shoot my a friend invite if you fancy it.

Did anyone post this already?

A couple of detailed blog posts on how spelunky generates it's level layouts
http://tinysubversions.com/spelunkyGen/

Very cool.

Spelunky on Steam is half off today for Midweek Madness! Now I have the XBLA version, the gog.com version and this as well. I'm putting your kids through college Derek Yu, now start making Spelunky babies.

Helpful note: When killing yourself for the Ankh resurrection, don't alt+tab. This might happen, apparently:

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In addition to spawning me outside the Moai head, it bugged the little animation that accompanies resurrection. I'm pretty sure it would've kept growing, because it was small at first.

Also regarding the Anhk, don't be too quick to exit the level after you kill yourself or you might not actually pick up the hedjet. I was so pissed at myself when I did this.

EriktheRed wrote:

Also regarding the Anhk, don't be too quick to exit the level after you kill yourself or you might not actually pick up the hedjet. I was so pissed at myself when I did this.

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I did that the first time I did it. I was not pleased.

Wow. Talk about timing. I'm about to take a month-long break from videogames, and I told myself "Okay, one more round of Spelunky before I go." That ended up being the best round of Spelunky I've ever had!

I usually play really fast and loose (e.g. bombing shopkeepers if I get a crappy mystery box, encouraging boulder traps to smash shops, killing everything in the Black Market, etc.) so I tend not to have particularly great runs. Tonight the stars aligned: bought a jetpack in the mines, bought the ankh outright, had no issues with Anubis or anything else in the temple or City of Gold, and got through Hell almost unscathed. Unfortunately, Yama killed me because I didn't find a good spot to lob bombs from and never had the money or good fortune needed for a shotgun -- and I think I was probably 2 piety short of getting a kapala. All the same... for a guy who usually doesn't even make it to the temple, getting slain by Yama with $201,550 is a really freaking incredible run!

The ultimate Spelunky run:

So I lost a hard drive and when I loaded up Spelunky on my new one, I found that I no longer have all the characters I unlocked. That sucks and seems like it shouldn't happen, but it also makes me wonder if there isn't just some sort of unlock file I could download.

Not that it makes a difference, I guess. I just miss playing as this dude:

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Round Boy! I wonder what he did before Olmec cursed him to a life of bombs, ropes and damsels.

So the PS3/Vita version of Spelunky was just updated with the daily challenge mode!

I REALLY like Spelunky but unlocking the shortcuts has become ridiculous. I can't find a freaking golden key because there usually is never one. Too bad one thing can kill a great game.

Crockpot wrote:

I REALLY like Spelunky but unlocking the shortcuts has become ridiculous. I can't find a freaking golden key because there usually is never one. Too bad one thing can kill a great game.

There is ALWAYS a golden key. It ALWAYS generates on either 1-2, 1-3, or 1-4. It is on the level with the locked chest.

Also, who ever uses shortcuts?

Wait, I think I just figured out what your problem is.

Crockpot wrote:

I REALLY like Spelunky but unlocking the shortcuts has become ridiculous. I can't find a freaking golden key because there usually is never one. Too bad one thing can kill a great game.

As someone with more than 1K plays that's bullsh*t. There's not always a damsel on each level but after I have never seen a run without the chest and golden key. It always spawns once between 1-2 and 1-4 inclusive. The shortcuts are only useful if you want to try one specific area, it's much more rewarding and a lot easier to go from 1-1 on and build up a stash of health and items.

EDIT: ErikTheRed-hausered!

I see, the reason the game is bad is because I'm playing it wrong. My bad.

Yes, I use shortcuts. Starting back from 1-1 doesn't make it easier and rewarding for me. I'm happy it works for you guys but it sure isn't for me.