Hurry Cave Shooter Unblocked
Ten seconds at a time, the cave grows, the chasers speed up and your aim has to keep pace.
What is Hurry Cave Shooter?
Hurry Cave Shooter is a survival platform shooter made in a weekend for Ludum Dare 27. You run and jump through an endless, self-generating cave while aiming shots with the mouse at red chasers that home in on you. Every ten seconds survived earns points and makes the next enemies tougher, and the run ends when your health bar is empty.
- Category
- Action Games
- Players
- 1 player
- Plays on
- Desktop / Chromebook
- Input
- Keyboard, Mouse
- Made by
- Hugh Kennedy
- Checked
Hurry Cave Shooter is a frantic little survival game built in a single weekend. You are a dark square in a mustard-yellow cave that keeps carving out new tunnels as you go, and red circles keep floating in to crowd you. Your gun aims wherever your mouse points, independent of where you run, so the whole thing feels like running backward while firing over your shoulder. Hugh Kennedy made it for Ludum Dare 27, whose theme was ten seconds, and that number drives everything. It plays unblocked on any computer with a mouse and keyboard.
Ten Seconds at a Time
Nothing happens until you first step left or right. Then the clock begins, the title fades away behind you and fresh sections of cave start forming around you.
Each new section brings red chasers with it, and they drift straight at you. Keep the pointer on one and fire until it pops. Your bullets arc slightly downward with gravity, so aim a touch high at anything far away. A chaser that bursts sprays red pellets that can damage other chasers around it.
A white bar across the bottom empties every ten seconds. Each time it does, you get 1,000 points, the round counter in the corner adds ten seconds, and the next group of chasers is faster, sturdier and larger.
Health and Bombs
Your health is the red bar at the top, with 15 points. A chaser that reaches you pops and takes one point. When the bar is empty the screen flashes and a fresh run begins at once, with your best score kept.
Dark balls marked GRAB ME are scattered through the cave. Touch one and it explodes, shoving and hurting chasers nearby, firing a ring of shots in all directions and giving you back two health points. Your square also tumbles in mid-air and blasts knock chasers around, which adds a bit of physics chaos to every fight.
Hurry Cave Shooter controls
| To do this | Keyboard | Mouse |
|---|---|---|
| Run left or right | A / D or the Left / Right arrows | — |
| Jump | W, Z, Up arrow or Space | — |
| Point your gun | — | Move the mouse |
| Fire | X or Shift | Hold the left button |
| Free the captured mouse pointer | Escape | — |
How to Survive Longer
- Back away while firing. Since your aim follows the mouse, you can retreat from a group and keep shooting at it.
- Use the keyboard trigger. Holding X or Shift fires continuously so your mouse hand only has to aim.
- Shoot the middle of a pack. Popped chasers release pellets that hurt their neighbors, so hitting the center can start a chain.
- Keep a bomb nearby. GRAB ME balls are strongest when several chasers are bunched up, and they double as a quick heal.
- Stay alive for late points. Hits are multiplied by the round, so the final seconds of a long run are worth the most.
A Jam Game With Real Bite
Hurry Cave Shooter is short, sharp and endlessly restartable, with caves generated fresh every time. It suits players who enjoy twin-stick-style shooting without a controller. For more platform action with a gun, try Little Platformer, or see other quick runs in our action games list.
Hurry Cave Shooter: questions players ask
What does "hurry" mean in Hurry Cave Shooter?
The game was made for Ludum Dare 27, a jam with the theme ten seconds. A white bar at the bottom empties every ten seconds, and each time it does, the chasers that follow get faster, tougher and more numerous.
Where did my cursor go?
When you click into the game, the pointer is locked inside it so your aim cannot slide out of the window. A small pale square shows your aim instead. Press Escape to get the normal cursor back.
What are the GRAB ME balls?
They are bombs placed around the cave. Running into one sets it off, pushing back and hurting nearby chasers, firing shots in a full ring and restoring two points of your health.
How do you get a high score in Hurry Cave Shooter?
Survive and shoot late. Each chaser hit is worth 100 times the current round, and each ten-second stretch adds 1,000. A long run where you keep hitting enemies near the end scores far more than an early burst. Your best is saved below the game.
Credits and license
Hurry Cave Shooter was created by Hugh Kennedy and released as open source. FreezeNova hosts a lightly adapted copy on its own server, together with the original license file.
- Source code: github.com/hughsk (original project)
- Code license: MIT
- Art & audio: MIT (text and number images made by the author; no audio)
- Our changes: The original name was hurry!, which we expanded to make it clearer. We also removed a GitHub ribbon pulled from another server, fitted the game to the player window and fixed an uncommon freeze on startup. The game plays as before.
