Elevator Goes Up? (LD48)
Welcome to the secret laboratory Elevator Station, the testing site for our brand new elevator design. You'll oversee the design as you send then elevator flying into space, or crashing into the ground - in the name of science! Going deeper allows you to find new technology buried under the ground.
What goes up, must come down.
Resources
- Sound & Art is original
- Fira Mono, from Google Fonts
- Poppins, from Google Fonts
Created for LD48. https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/48/elevator-goes-up/
Development log
- Post-Jam Update: Saving and EndingJul 11, 2023
- Post-Jam Update: The FactoryJun 25, 2022
- Post-Jam Update: The Secret LabNov 07, 2021
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I can't get it to run on the browser for me
Nvm
Time to drill through the Earth and then compromise its structural integrity by doing it a bunch muhahahaha
Well I'm one tenth of the way there
Or maybe I accidentally elevator (Or maybe ed?) myself to Mars it's quite red
Solar system confirmed
w h a t
Negative cables what do they do well they don't stick to anything I guess they create a vacuum around them yeah that's how they can not stick to anything at all but if it's a false vacuum oh and yeah that is a real thing
cable doesn't benefit falling speed does it
I wish but it does say in the radio story thingy"the cables have been cut don't worry there's no one on the elevator" so no cables it's kind of like when you get enough jet engines you're just flying using jet engines
I mean it's kind of useless saying there's no one ON the elevator yeah of course there's not going to be anybody on top of the elevator they're going to be in the elevator
"Why did we put the whole team on the elevator? Well anyways they're now all squished due to the rapid acceleration" and that's why you don't put people on an elevator folks yeah I don't know
made it to heliosphere
if you dont set your zoom to like 67% or whatever since im too lazy to check, you cant repair your elevator
im gonna try to get to 10000km deep
solar system confirmed
how long does it take to reach the end
just found out there is a floor past hyperspace
How!? Well, that's a bug to fix by next year...
Got to what would be lower mantle (its 660 to 2900 km deep), I got to 768.5km deep!
got past that to 938.6km
now 1200km
2100km
made it past the lower mantle
Is there more content after reaching lightspeed, or the new version ends there?
Thank you for playing :) Lightspeed is the end! I've updated the game to rephrase that progress bar to "The End".
Made it to the mantle, I'm satisfied for now :-)
For anyone wondering:
my bought upgrades are 30,23 and 4 (cable, aero and jetpack) and i waited till 10 million altitude (1e7) for it to drop
Naaahhh that cable price though
nice
reminds me of that one time where a mad scientist put me and my lover in glass elevators and made us go through some invisible layers heheheh anyways thats how I became a depressed furry nnaaah
interesting
oh hey, cool to see you here
I guess there's nothing else for me to do?
interesting game but I have no idea what else I can do in it
lol (look at the full thing)
Really cool and unique idea, I like it!
Fun game, really cool idea.
are there more components than the rocket and the drill?
Not at the moment; those are all the components that visibly stick to the elevator, though there are upgrades afterwards that you may have found. Thanks for playing!
Floor: The Tunnel
Is a Core of the Earth floor possible?
Or maybe Floor: Out the Other End
Thank you for playing! I like your suggestion, so the Earth's mantle can now be found 10km below ground (please be warned, it's very hard to reach, and it's only visual).
Found it! It's kinda warm.
Also feels pretty melty oh wait that's just me melting... WAIT WHAT AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA oh wait never mind we're back out into space...AAAAAAAAAA wait never mind AAAAAAA pheAAAAAAA why please stop I don't want to melt actually I might evaporate pretty soon if they just drop me in the core ah yes very easy to make toast and also burn it I guess
Maybe have an ending/another level when you drill to the core and blow up earth or when you make it to another planet like mars?
Can we just drill through the entire planet maybe? That would be hilarious!
Nyoom
Wonderful game! Not sure if anything is beyond deep space. I got to 1.10^e7m. This was a fantastic game, the upgrading mechanic was really balanced and the idea of going up faster is fun! Really great work! Had a whole lot of fun with it!
Thank you for the lovely comment, I'm very glad you enjoyed it!
Really enjoying the update! The new upgrades are wonderful, the elevator is now up to over 1.7^e12m now and I don't know if I can even get it back down anymore!
And that's why they are now gravity core slash photon cores taken from the small bits of the core In the Earth from the mantle they're very small because of that
I'm guessing I have beaten this because I'm in orbit and as far as I can tell it's now just an endless grind for levels. It's a nice idea but I wouldn't mind if it had more to buy and things to do.
Like if you go -1000 meters into the ground the rockets can be upgraded to go faster or cost less for each level up.
i just wanna say a while after orbit is deep space but good idea *not involved in the game team*
A really good idea. Sadly it only lasts a couple of minutes after you reached -75m. Would be happy to see a bigger game. Keep up the great work
found a bug it is possible to get -1 cables
Hi TheRealAskz! Could you please explain how to get -1 cables, if you remember how to? That would be great. Feel free to reply here, or email tabletkqua+bugtracker@gmail.com.
I'm working on the first update and I could fix it now.
all I could remember is you click fast on aerodynamics
im at 40m meters now
10M meters
really good.
how
Magic! More seriously, the jet engines are propelling the elevator up - but I hadn't added an animation for that by release time. Congrats on reaching orbit!
thx
Wait till you reach Deep space and beyond!
seams nice i not sure if i maxed it out, seams fun not sure if there's any more.would love to see a full game with a few improvements and stratigie.
^Yeah, same here, not sure when I fly to space what to do....