Journey to the Center of the Earth, indie game edition

September 19, 2009 4:43 PM

Journey to the Center of the Earth- or DonDon (?) is an excellent exploration-based platformer game with fabulous little pixel graphics and a solid 45 minutes or so of gameplay. Think Diet Spelunky, or La Mulana Lite. A little more info and hints at Indie Games Blog.

Sorry, Windows only (direct link). F4 for fullscreen (but it's better in 1x windowed mode)
posted by BlackLeotardFront (6 comments total)

Needs a DLL at this link. Nice game, if you don't mind squinting. Lots of puzzles.
posted by Hardcore Poser at 7:06 PM on September 19, 2009

Whew!

The first time through I hit a bug and fell through the door to level two (but couldn't get back up). After I restarted it was much less frustrating! Fun game.
posted by aubilenon at 1:23 AM on September 20, 2009

[few comments removed - complaining three comments in that this is a windows exe is sort of poor form. MetaTalk might be a good place to have that discussion.]
posted by jessamyn at 8:01 AM on September 20, 2009

Nice game. I like that you can't really take damage.
posted by pravit at 9:00 AM on September 20, 2009

Can I complain that this windows exe doesn't work on my windows machine?
posted by Mr.Encyclopedia at 4:20 PM on September 20, 2009

To save everyone the twenty seconds to figure out basic controls:

Up/down/left/right --> Use arrows
Use bomb --> 'D'
Jump --> 'X'
Show outstanding treasure locations --> 'A'
Quit game --> Esc

There's more advanced combinations, but they're revealed in-game and it'd be spoilerish to post here. Also, you can reprogram the above. I recommend it, given how often you need to mess with jumping and bombing.
posted by nickgb at 6:11 PM on September 21, 2009