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The Deep

By dannyg59

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Audio84.36
Coolness277
Mood414.08
Theme593.85
Overall683.76
Graphics784.27
Fun1063.52
Innovation2503.29
Humor3702.57

Comments

eugman 2014-04-28 21:24

A pretty good game overall. I thought it was very pretty. I was sad that there wasn't more content. I definitely would play it as a full game with multiple chapters and some strategic decisions.

conormn 2014-04-28 21:27

You have a really cool game on your hands. I'd flush it out more for sure.

bakpakin 2014-04-28 21:33

Really nice intro, sets the mood, game felt short without too much content, but what can you do. I really liked the intro and the music, made me really relaxed after stressing to finish my own entry.:)

schnut 2014-04-28 21:33

This game was fun to play. It felt very polished, everything fit well together. :-)
I loved leveling myself up by catching fish. I didn't really see where my health was shown... but I survived anyway. :D

MattHartley 2014-04-28 21:35

I love the graphics and the music was awesome too, great job! :D

nxt 2014-04-28 21:35

Really fun game - I made it to the surprise before dying :). I really like the smoothness of the intro cinematic and the background music is really nice. The game feels polished, and is an interesting take on the rogue-like genre.

dannyg59 2014-04-28 21:38

Thankyou guys

Schnüt your HP is your oxygen count sorry! haha, it's up the top left and you can recharge it by hitting the surface. There is prompts if you fall short

tuism 2014-04-28 21:44

Nooooo! Sorry you didn't make the jam cos of pure fluke! I was up for 46 hours straight so I definitely feel your pain!

Anyway great game! So well polished! Great music, the visuals are awesome, I love the little touch of seeing air bubbles where fish are and the radar mechanic. So well designed!

Dunno why but there seems to be a plethora of fishing games (not just talking about this LD) lately in indie circles, I guess Ridiculous Fishing awakened the fishing soul in us all :P

jugglerrob 2014-04-28 21:58

It's too bad you missed the compo, but at least you made the jam. Still an awesome game. I would love to see more levels and such in a post compo version or something.

szrapnel 2014-04-28 22:07

Nicely balanced, playable rougue like. I'm really into it :)

framematt 2014-04-28 22:09

Looks great!

graebor 2014-04-28 22:18

Awesome level of polish and atmosphere, but making me go through the lengthy intro sequence every time I died kind of soured the experience for me. Great effort overall though :)

dannyg59 2014-04-28 22:23

Yeh sorry about that, I literally had no energy to make it skippable, I'm sorry :(

tschery 2014-04-28 23:13

this is brilliant! It feels so polished and nice, the music is totally killing it aswell. Man can you post a soundcloud link or so to that track? Im totally digging at, aswell as the graphics

kddekadenz 2014-04-28 23:59

Can't play this, Unity webplayer is not available for Linux OS. Feel free to send me a tweet @tinyworlds if you export a Linux executable and I'll play your game.

priorblue 2014-04-29 00:10

Brilliant idea for a rough like and great sound/atmosphere.

dannyg59 2014-04-29 00:14

I will try Rick!

nicom 2014-04-29 02:03

Nicely done rougelike in a very unusual setting, great music and art, created a very moody atmosphere:) Great Job:)

dminsky 2014-04-29 12:16

Really cool visual style, I like it. Music is also awesome!

bigbearscot 2014-04-29 13:44

Love the visuals and the music. I keep dying tho! Well done in producing something so polished over the weekend!

dragonxvi 2014-04-29 16:23

At least managed to kill a few Robo-sharks :D Nice little moody Roguelike! The lengthly intro did bug me a bit but only after the first death where I didn't know what I was doin'. Second attempt went a lot better :D

dannyg59 2014-04-30 16:38

ha! did anyone manage to kill the boss ?

petey123567 2014-05-02 05:43

Great intro and music! Wish I could restart faster though. I would love see this fleshed out into a bigger game, I played through and beat it. I was able to spawn camp the robotsharks and leveled up to 53 pretty fast.

fox_in_sox 2014-05-02 07:41

Interesting game, I had a similar idea in the beginning.:) My bigest complaint is, that it takes too long to restart after I die. That's a kinda big issue, since the players doesn't want to wait so long.
I like the Game Boy like graphics tho.:)

dannyg59 2014-05-02 08:18

Thanks, yeh the big issue is definitely retrying, it's a pain in the ass. Currently smashing out a bigger version so I will post a link soon

brittbrady 2014-05-05 05:24

The music is awesome!

rico-albe 2014-05-05 12:00

Nice game. Took me a while to figure I had to go down, as the intro showed the character going upwards.

hyperbox 2014-05-17 19:42

Oooo just loving that visual style and audio, seriously. The gameplay itself was straightforward but engaging.

masha 2014-05-17 20:06

Cool concept. Like the music.

dannyg59 2014-05-17 20:24

If you want to keep uo with the dev you can find me here http://funnylookinggames.wordpress.com

or on twitter as @DannyG1888

It's going on android and iPhone and I have a few nice ideas for the progression etc.

wademcgillis 2014-05-17 20:38

The intro took too long to get back to playing after death. You need to work on this more and release it expanded.

badpaul34 2014-05-17 20:45

Nice intro, music and atmosphere. Too bad there's only one chapter! Would have like more content and game play :)

dannyg59 2014-05-17 21:39

@wademcgillis it was the first thing I fixed ;) it isn't the same anymore

@BadPaul thankyou paul! there will be a full game soon

copain 2014-05-17 22:46

nice look game.
A little problem for balancing: ennemies respawn at the same point, so I just had to make left right (respawn), right right (I kil the ennemy); then left right (respawn) etc...

mark-goetz 2014-05-18 02:37

Great game, love the music and graphics! There's a lot of strategy, and a simple and effective level system - I like how your oxygen meter was also your HP. I was hoping for a bit more progression but given what you had in the timeframe I think it's fine. Can't wait to see what you come up with!

And yes, I beat the boss.