The Copper Cave
A downloadable game for Windows
It's your first day on the job and you're late as always. Your purpose? You're one of the members of a mining crew sent to The Copper Cave to gather various rare ores, minerals and exotic gems that lie within.
As expected, no one waited for you to arrive before rushing into the mine. Thankfully, one of your co-workers left a note next to some mining gear at the cave's entrance updating you on the situation and instructing you to go in and contact your boss through the walkie-talkie. What will you find deep within? Many riches await!
Controls:
- Movement: W, A, S, D
- Jump: Spacebar
- Equip Pickaxe: 1
- Pickaxe Attack: LClick
- Equip Gun: 2
- Aim: RClick
- Shoot: LClick
- Walkie Talkie: 3
- Unequip: 0 (or 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
- Inventory: TAB
- Minecart Inventory: TAB
- Interact: E
- Flashlight: F
- Detailed Inspection: LClick + Move Mouse, E to Exit
- Return to Main Menu: B
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having both hands constantly swinging/moving, even when standing still is kinda anoying. right hand is waaaay to intrusive and the general game feels too clumsy. Also, Barely playable at 720 and minimum settings with a decent graphic card.
Thank you for the comment! This game was a group project for an assignment so we really didn't expect to see anyone take a look at it from outside our friend group. First of all, thank you a lot for even downloading the game and giving it a chance, it really means a lot!
As for the issues... we really have no excuse aside from the tight deadline. Our arms rig was horrible and the team member responsible of its anination experienced random jumps on the left hand's position. The easiest way to just keep moving forward was to slide both arms to the left of the frame until the glitching wasn't noticeable.
In terms of optimisation, the game is a mess. We used WAY too many triangles for every tunnel section and room and it made the game run horribly on my PC even in the main menu screen. We hope to fix this is the future but I'm not really the judge of the game's fate.
As this was an assignment, most of the group's work on the game ends here. However, one of its members is planning to take it to the next level and make it a fully fleshed out experience for his end-of-career project. Consider this version as just a demo, even if it's a broken one. If we see more people giving it attention, we'll most probably decide to make it more bearable for any PC just so it doesn't take away too much from the experience. Updating it with new content is out of the map, though, as I'm not interested in developing it further. Considering my friend and team member IS willing to develop it further, be on the lookout for any announcement if you're interested in a more narrative complete game. I will be sharing his socials only with his permission, I will relay this to him to see what he plans to do.
If you want a release date, consider Summer 2025 the most probable one.
Again, thank you for the support! :D