Spelunky players just refuse to give up. It makes sense, considering the game they've chosen to spend so much time playing. The world record for highest possible score has been beaten, with an amazing run by YamaYamaDingDong.
Bananasaurus_Rex is easily one of, if not the, best Spelunky players out there. And right now he's in the middle of an incredible run to rack up a record score of $3 million, which means getting every single piece of treasure in every level.
I don't know how this game went this long without this mod, but that doesn't really matter: Here it is, at last, Spelunky done Metroid-style. The title screen and music alone should fire you right the hell up.
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A big component of Spelunky's appeal and challenge is its procedurally generated levels, assuring you don't play the same board twice. Some diehards, however, have developed a tool (for the PC's HD version) that forces the game to generate the same level on replays.
Want to understand what makes Spelunky a great game? Over at Polygon, game designer Douglas Wilson (of J.S. Joust and more recently, Clusterfuck reknown) has written an in-depth, play-by-play analysis of one of the most amazing Spelunky achievements of 2013. Check it out.
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Some great deals today, especially if you're looking for a 3DS XL, but you can't beat getting Spelunky for $3.75 if you're a Playstation Plus member. The purchase is even cross-buy, so you'll get both the PS3 and Vita versions for under $4. [PSN]
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Spelunky procedurally-generates its levels, meaning you'll never ever play the same stage twice. But how does this magic actually work? How do you get to play through actual playable stages, and not nightmarish collages of terrain?
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Spelunky is a very difficult game. But of course some people aren't satisfied with just plain difficult. Bananasaurus_Rex has already done the near-impossible solo eggplant run, so he had to invent a new challenge for himself.
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This is a solo Eggplant run in Spelunky. On camera. If you don't know how hard that is, this guy should really have been playing the Chariots of Fire theme in the background the entire time.
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Yes, being mean or trolling someone isn't exactly recommendable or even particularly empathetic, but that doesn't mean both are completely off the table all the time. Not if you're playing a game, anyway.
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Television's night of nights is also Spelunky's night of nights, it seems, with the brutal platformer making a surprise appearance during the awards show.
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Speedruns on most games don't particularly enthrall me though I do acknowledge the skill and knowledge it takes to pull off one in record time. This sub-7 minute dash through Spelunky is a different story—probably because of the element of luck involved in procedurally generated levels. And the fact Spelunky's damn…
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Spelunky is finally out on the PC, and it'll be out on PS3 and Vita on August 27th. Chris Person and I sit down to play through the game and explain why we like this game enough that I bought wired controllers to hook up to my PC instead of just playing it on the Xbox.
Indie dev Derek Yu saw one of his games praised and one criticized in a recent feminist critique of video games. Out of that emerged a refreshingly calm and open-minded exchange between developer and critic on Twitter. It's well worth a read.
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Spelunky will get Daily Challenges starting August 8th, and these are new adventures that are randomly generated every day. They are the same for everyone, and you only get one chance to try the latest one. There are even special leaderboards...but this is for the Steam version only.
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We knew that the enhanced console version of side-scrolling roguelike Spelunky would make its way to PC this summer, but not exactly when. Now we know.
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The awesome remastered version of Spelunky—which was an Xbox 360 exclusive last year—is coming to PC, PS3 and Vita this summer, according to developer Mossmouth.
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Indiana Jones is not the only one solving annoying ancient puzzles in haunted caves, armed with a whip and dynamites, far from civilization. A setting like this is perfect for video games, so it is no surprise that many were influenced by the character, and the similarities in some cases are amazing.
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On the surface, Spelunky is a roguelike platformer where you become like Indiana Jones, going farther and farther inside ancient caves holding untold riches and perhaps even lost civilizations. You have some rope, some bombs, a whip and whatever else you find along the way. It's a difficult game, and you will die a…
If you dig Spelunky's funky soundtrack, you can now download it—and 15 tracks not found in the game—for $7.
