A carefully crafted game is on its way by Derek Yu, Mr. TIGSource himself. Even the name is kind of friendly: Spelunky!. It is the first game Derek made with the Game Maker tool. He writes on the forum: “Probably the easiest way to describe Spelunky is that its (kind of) like La Mulana meets Nethack – every time you play the levels, items, monsters, and so forth, are all procedurally-generated. And the terrain is destructible and there are quite a few ways in which the various game elements can interact with one another.”
What I read so far about the game was quite enthusiastic. The procedural design of the levels also will result an interesting play, re-play value. You also do not need to be an expert to detect the first class quality of the graphics. But you will need to have a play, to be convinced also of the playable qualities of Spelunky! Unfortunatelly I have problems in downloading the game. The download stops after downloadings some megabytes of the 11MB package for unknown reason. Someone maybe upload the game to a mirrorserver? That would be great!!
