Mush Go Deeper
A downloadable game
About
Follow Mush into the depths, guided by innate callings in Mush Go Deeper. Delve further into underground territory, journeying from your birth forest to caves and finally to your ultimate destination.
Navigate through levels, jump over obstacles, and conquer the monsters that try to block your path.
What calls to you in the darkness? What spurs your soul onward into the depths? Your blood has transformed into the form of a blood mushroom. Discover what you have lost…both to the world and to yourself.
Will you always follow your ambitions?
The Team
Mush Go Deeper was developed by Studio BeepBoop. We are team of first year Game Design & Development students at the IIE Vega School, based in La Lucia, Durban. We are actively working on innovating new exciting and meaningful ways to play.
Mush Go Deeper is an early prototype of a much larger scale project, developed for the annual Ludum Dare Game Jam, based upon the theme of depths. As the project is still in the Research & Development stage, there is an extremely high possibility that it is riddled with unsolved bugs, which will be rectified in the final version.
Mush Go Deeper Staff
Adishesha Nandkoomar - Lead Developer, Gameplay Programmer
Dylan Minkley - Lead Gameplay Designer, World-Building
Jessica Anderson - Lead Game Artist, Concept Art, Character Art, Tileset Art
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Abigail Sykes - Environmental and Background Artist
Ayden Willett - Object Artist, Enemy Artist (To be implemented in final game)
Tatum Bollman - Testing, Additional Support
Further Acknowledgements
Henk Scheepers - Our Game Design & Development Lecturer at Vega School for granting us the opportunity to partake in this competition and providing us with the knowledge and support necessary to bring the earliest version of our project to life.
Matthew Derek Rall - For assisting us in the initial startup of Studio BeepBoop and registering us in the Ludum Dare 57 Game Jam, as well as taking on the role of group supervisor throughout the duration of the competition.
Download
Install instructions
- Visit the Game Page: Go to the Mush Go Deeper Itch.io page.
- Click on the .zip File: In the Download section, find and click on the .zip file link to start the download. Locate the downloaded ZIP file on your computer, right-click it, and select "Extract All" to unpack the contents.
- Extract the file and run the .exe File: Open the extracted folder and find the executable file. Double-click the executable to start playing the game.
Comments
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Awesome game.
Love the 100% intentional wall jumping/climbing/launching/I can Fly!! mechanics.
I don’t know what Mush Go Deeper is, and I’m not entirely sure I should know.
You start the game, and within minutes, you're spiraling into something — a tunnel, a thought, a memory, who knows. There’s no tutorial, no “objective complete,” no hand-holding. Just vibes. Strange, pulsing, brain-tickling vibes.
The first thing that hits you is the aesthetic. It’s low-res, janky in a deliberate way, like it was coded in a fever dream by someone who hasn’t slept in days. The colors are off, the shapes are weird, and the music (if you can call it that) sounds like lo-fi beats for dissolving into the void.
Gameplay? You move. You go deeper. Mush-ier. Gravity is optional. Logic is optional. Sanity is definitely optional. You might think you're making progress, but progress in this game feels like sinking in molasses while someone whispers cryptic messages in your ear.
but.........
For first-year students with minimal experience, this is an impressive prototype. Keep it up!