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One Breath

By steamgirl

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness355
Graphics1483.75
Theme2013.44
Innovation2283.33
Audio3212.84
Mood3842.93
Humor5082.22
Overall5902.90
Fun6032.71

Comments

ohfiddlediddle 2013-12-16 05:08

A pretty game and the audio is nice, and the game does feel quite tropical, but as you stated in the description the tutorial is quite unstable.
If the tutorial was fixed up, and the game mechanics maybe a little better explained (I got the hang of them after a bit of experimenting) it could be really cool. :)

lordjosephdeburg 2013-12-16 17:53

good game steam girl, much trickier than I thought. art work is also very interesting.

steamgirl 2013-12-20 17:06

Thanks for your comments!!!

@OhFiddleDiddle - I'll try to add a better tutorial at a later point (but clearly sign-post it as outside the jam). :)

van-noctar 2013-12-20 17:32

Gameplay is good!! Innovative and fun!

aviktorov 2013-12-20 17:48

Nice graphics and quite addictive gameplay, though the controls are hard to learn and a bit hard to play with touchpad. Parameter ups are also cool.

nelien 2013-12-21 17:25

That was really addictive! I only stopped when things started to cost over 1200 each and it got a little repetitive. Despite the hard to learn controls and somewhat buggy gameplay, it was a lot of fun!

hamster_mk_4 2013-12-21 17:29

I couldn't find a way of exiting the tutorial, or for that matter not dying. I suspect there are parts of the game I am not experiencing.

steamgirl 2013-12-21 17:46

@Nelien - Thanks, means a lot to hear it! Originally I planned for other things to be down in the deep, such jellyfish which you would have to avoid touching, to mix up the gameplay. Perhaps I'll do a post-compo full-feature, since it sounds like you think it has potential. ^_^

@hamster - Yeah the tutorial is pretty dire- sorry! I added it in in the last hour before submission. Did you try to swim up quickly before you breath ran out? Right-click in the top-half of the screen to swim up, that should avoid the mermaids spiriting you away!

lorniebear 2013-12-21 18:27

Great graphics, was playing it for ages

mephi 2013-12-23 13:05

Diving and having to hold your breath - great take on the theme!
Cool graphics and sound also.
I too wasn't able to quit the tutorial, but refreshed the page and started a new game. I got my first two parameters half scale upgraded when I died and I found out my progress was gone :(
It's too hardcore this way.

seconddimension 2013-12-23 13:19

Took me a while to figure out, but I go there in the end. This is a really imaginative way to use the theme, I especially like that you have to time your dive to coincide with having full lungs

saulopz 2013-12-26 17:44

good game, but hard to play. Great graphics and mechanics.

smash-ball 2013-12-26 23:58

Well I didn't realize I lost everything when I died, but there isn't an objective so I didn't care too much. That aside, it was a rather fun game. Took a few dives before I figured out I had to click on goldfish, and even more to see that seaweed was clickable too. I was raking in the cash once that happened.

diningphilosopher 2013-12-29 20:16

Indeed, you first have to find out the controls and get used to them, but otherwise this is a very nice game! It's quite addictive. :) The graphics are nice, and you used the theme in an original way. :D

atombrot 2013-12-30 20:19

was nice to play. graphics are awesome :)

glovecat 2014-01-04 13:21

Nice game :D Good graphics but it's hard to play it :(

bradleysmith 2014-01-04 22:59

Nice visuals. :)

diptoman 2014-01-05 06:29

Some kind of image of someone actually diving would have been nice. :P
Nevertheless, it's a pretty neat game.

kbake 2014-01-06 23:23

I was only one off from having everything mastered, dang! I liked the tropical feel and the music was nice. Some more sound effects would've gone a long way (though the ones you have in there do the job) and adding more feedback when swimming up/down would've been helpful. Overall though it's a really good job, had me playing for a while!