Comments on: Spelunky Explorers’ Club

By: The understated genius of the Spelunky Daily Challenge | Digital Combat Soldiers

Tue, 07 Jan 2014 16:29:50 +0000

[…] developer Tom Francis decided to go a step further and start the Spelunky Explorers’ Club, recording the scores of other players and bringing together the videos of their various runs. I […]

By: Jason Killingsworth

Jason Killingsworth — Sun, 08 Sep 2013 15:35:18 +0000

Chris! So proud of you for going for the jetpack steal. The best method is just to pick it up and sprint out of the shop, being careful to take flight the second you cross the threshold to avoid the immediate shotgun blast.

By: Bryce

Bryce — Sat, 07 Sep 2013 21:29:23 +0000

http://youtu.be/fwZabvMmEes

By: Eoin Hurrell

Eoin Hurrell — Thu, 05 Sep 2013 12:36:12 +0000

Here’s my run for the 4th, nothing as good as Tom’s but has pickaxes

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Tue, 03 Sep 2013 13:19:28 +0000

[…] Spelunky Explorers Club (Tom is currently away, so for the most recent videos go to Hey […]

By: Rethlandir

Rethlandir — Sun, 01 Sep 2013 04:29:00 +0000

Ok, not sure why that link isn’t working, clearly my HTML needs more work… Here’s the link instead: http://youtu.be/BqxaoRFZgGo

By: Rethlandir

Rethlandir — Sun, 01 Sep 2013 04:25:21 +0000

So yesterday (Aug 31st) turned out to be one of the few really successful runs I've managed, despite some daft mistakes.

By: Chris Donlan

Chris Donlan — Thu, 29 Aug 2013 11:54:57 +0000

5 lives on 1-2, but I couldn’t resist stealing the jetpack. Trying to, anyway.

By: Finlay Costello

Finlay Costello — Tue, 27 Aug 2013 22:21:28 +0000

Good times, bad times. http://youtu.be/U-PGxLQRBt0

By: Rethlandir

Rethlandir — Mon, 19 Aug 2013 14:54:35 +0000

My rather poor attempt at the daily for the 19th can befound here. I guess getting past the mines isn't always on the cards...

By: Damon Smith

Damon Smith — Mon, 19 Aug 2013 00:14:15 +0000

Getting quite frustrated at Spelunky. My third daily challenge attempt where, for NO reason on my part, the shopkeeper became angry at me, which is pretty much game over from then on.

I wasn’t even near his shop this time, just playing along, picking up gold, when suddenly…”TERRORIST!”.

I really really wish this could be fixed in the PC version. I assume an enemy is wandering into his shop or something?

By: Jeff K

Jeff K — Sun, 18 Aug 2013 23:33:23 +0000

Whoops, and forgot the link there: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMVcDphPi2M

By: Jeff K

Jeff K — Sun, 18 Aug 2013 23:33:00 +0000

My fairly-ok-but-then-horrible run for today. Mostly it turned into an exercise in learning how to do silly things with Premiere.

By: Rethlandir

Rethlandir — Sun, 18 Aug 2013 04:30:08 +0000

My run for yesterday (16/08) and my even more foolish and premature end in the daily for the 17th.

By: Finlay Costello

Finlay Costello — Sat, 17 Aug 2013 17:27:52 +0000

I attempted the daily challenge for the first time today, got to Mines 1-3 with $10,400. It goes without saying I died in a ridiculous and unexpected fashion. http://youtu.be/0GFMWG9MQNg

By: Ben Borthwick

Ben Borthwick — Fri, 16 Aug 2013 21:44:49 +0000

I have no idea how I survived so long today. (16th)

By: Martin E

Martin E — Fri, 16 Aug 2013 07:20:14 +0000

I guess you’ve figured out by now that it was a splinter of wood from the wall you mattocked (is that a word?) through that hit the crate of TNT.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Thu, 15 Aug 2013 16:55:20 +0000

There’s a worm level!?

By: Ben Borthwick

Ben Borthwick — Thu, 15 Aug 2013 13:44:07 +0000

I had assumed Gril's colours might be switched due to his color-blindness, although it might be just have been a technical issue and now I'll look stupid :(. My run for today (15th) - seemed to be the hardest DC so far.

By: Ben Borthwick

Ben Borthwick — Wed, 14 Aug 2013 13:06:08 +0000

I foolhardy tried to show off something in my run today not surprisingly, it bit me in the arse. Almost literally.

By: Jason L

Jason L — Wed, 14 Aug 2013 00:51:34 +0000

You probably spotted this after the fact, but on the 13th your burning hatred of the climbing gloves blinded you to some additional options they gave you.

By: Jeff K

Jeff K — Tue, 13 Aug 2013 18:01:24 +0000

This has been tons of fun to watch, and thanks for the recording tips! I’ve been streaming/uploading my last few dailies (Today’s is compressing as we speak).

But I think I’m going to shift my goal from scoring high on the leaderboards (i.e. getting tons of money) to just trying to get as far as I can with just the one chance. Whether that’s beating Olmec or- should luck smile on me- getting to the City of Gold or even Hell, I think it’ll be more fun both to play and watch.

By: Ben Borthwick

Ben Borthwick — Tue, 13 Aug 2013 13:19:30 +0000

For recording tips, I recommend for those not wanting to spend money on FRAPS or a lack of HDD space to check out Open Broadcast Software or OBS It's free and open-source, and you can use it to record from several sources (if you want say, a shot of your webcam to record your reactions etc), you can adjust game volume and microphone volume independently from each other and you can output to a local file and/or - if you're low on HDD space like me - you can just broadcast directly to Twitch.tv and then export it from there to a YouTube video. Very handy bit of software. And here's my video for today, the 13th. Awesome plan with the new mini-blog Tom, I'd suspected this may quickly grow slightly big for one post too - I've actually collated the videos from here into a SpelunkyDaily Tumblr so people can view them by death or level reached, I'm tagging all videos from here with "SEC" for Spelunky Explorer's Club.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Tue, 13 Aug 2013 09:25:43 +0000

Today (13th) I got all the way to the Aztec area!

Then was vomited on by a mummy ¬¬

By: Evan

Evan — Tue, 13 Aug 2013 07:46:18 +0000

As someone new to Spelunky these videos have been incredibly helpful after the fact (I’m keeping in the spirit and not watching them until after I attempt the day’s run). Little things like being able to throw stuff at an upwards angle and grabbing the ledge while sprinting across a two-block gap that I hadn’t figured out yet have vastly improved my game. I made it out of the mines today!

I went to play today’s challenge and proceeded to immediately fall/get shot/get pounced at the start of the first level. When it showed my score I was ranked #1 in the world. Apparently the daily resets at midnight GMT or ~5 PM my time and I was one of the first people to run it. For a brief moment I was a Spelunky champion.

By: Nik SG

Nik SG — Tue, 13 Aug 2013 03:22:10 +0000

Hey! Cool idea! I have been recording my daily runs as well, you can check out my latest here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVwG32CIVVI

Bit about me: I am a developer of games too and a big fan of the games you guys have worked on :)

By: Paul Fisher

Paul Fisher — Mon, 12 Aug 2013 20:54:14 +0000

Fellow developer here, joining in the fun.
Got to the Black Market today and died to a man-eating plant blocking my way out of the shops. Thought 3 blocks was far enough away for a sticky bomb. Sadly not.
Todays run (12 Aug) – 2-2 – $45575

By: Ben Borthwick

Ben Borthwick — Mon, 12 Aug 2013 14:08:39 +0000

And my video for my run of the 12th here. Hoping the comment system won't flag me as a spammer if I keep up with the videos at the same pace as everyone else.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Sun, 11 Aug 2013 19:57:54 +0000

It is really fun watching how other players deal with the dilemmas thrown at them by the game.

I for one am much braver or stupid as I ploughed on through bat country :)

By: @saampahlavan

@saampahlavan — Sun, 11 Aug 2013 19:37:53 +0000

My run yesterday, farthest I’ve ever gotten in Spelunky: http://www.twitch.tv/saampahlavan/b/443889948

By: Tom (Sleep Cycles Gaming)

Tom (Sleep Cycles Gaming) — Sun, 11 Aug 2013 18:33:29 +0000

Another Tom checking in. Good names you lads have. Here’s my attempt at today’s run. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HidSiMvw4PI

You can view me fucking up in similarly inventive ways in other videos I have.

By: tequibo

tequibo — Sun, 11 Aug 2013 17:10:17 +0000

Eh, I messed up first video link. Here it is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tc-0AmYHcAU

By: tequibo

tequibo — Sun, 11 Aug 2013 17:08:57 +0000

Cool, cool, cool! In "todays run I've got to the boss for the first time in HD version. And then died in a stupid fashion. My yesterday's run was very, very short.

By: Joe

Joe — Sun, 11 Aug 2013 16:44:50 +0000

No video, but I did manage to get all the way to Olmec today.

By: Ben Borthwick

Ben Borthwick — Sun, 11 Aug 2013 16:37:48 +0000

Totally in for this - here's my runthrough of today's challenge.