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Surf's Down

By teesquared

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness292
Humor1233.40
Fun5173.06
Theme6023.22
Graphics7292.90
Audio8212.22
Overall8912.84
Mood9522.53
Innovation10762.31

Comments

reinkout 2014-04-29 06:00

Frigging laserbeams! Nice one, thanks. :)

godeatgod 2014-04-29 06:22

Its got friggin sharks with friggin lasers on their head. Someone hold mini me!

petey123567 2014-04-29 06:23

Best score 1660, depth 4510!

tuism 2014-04-29 06:24

In my mission to rate all the shark related games in this LD (my game is SUPER LANDSHARK MISSILE ATTACK, see? :P), this is the best one so far :P

Cool collection of juice, and I love the surprise in the one-shot-on-screen mechanic in that I could spam shots if I control my ship just right, though that was risk/reward in itself :) Whether that was intended or not doesn't matter cos it's cool emergent gameplay! :D

Good stuff :)

l3dx 2014-04-29 06:25

Cool game. I didn't make it to the bottom. Sharks everywhere!

xangotrick66 2014-04-29 06:30

Liked it!Quite challenging, and I love the graphical style

lostautumnguy 2014-04-30 04:05

Haha, love the laser beams. Good job.

elefantopia 2014-04-30 04:09

Fun game with fun graphics! Challenging and humorous with the horrifyingly horrifying sharks :)

teesquared 2014-04-30 04:11

Thanks for the positive feedback! Single shot system was intended but it turned out better than expected.

thinkster 2014-04-30 16:13

I liked it! Sharks with laser beams, what more could you want! Only suggestion I have is that the hit boxes on the big shark seemed a little too big. I died sometimes when I thought I would be ok!

meszka 2014-04-30 16:25

Oh the horror! I feel my sanity slipping away!
Also, strangely addictive. I wouldn't have figured out the one-shot-on-screen thing myself, seemed a bit unintuitive for torpedos to work like that, but it made the game interesting.

wakka 2014-04-30 22:25

funny little game, the light-sabre-sharks are legendary =)

covenant 2014-05-01 12:57

Sharks with laserbeams, lol... :)
Nice concept, but it ramps up too fast, imho... Other than that, graphics were fun as well!

nizil 2014-05-01 21:33

As already said... The shark is soooo cool, I really enjoy the style =D Funny little game !

blockbot 2014-05-01 21:56

Sharks with frikin lasers attached to their heads!

tomvert 2014-05-03 06:16

There's a spot on the screen where you almost never get hurt, I made 2290 points ! Also laser sharks !!!

teesquared 2014-05-03 15:29

@thinkster yeah that was a bug with collision for the rotated sharks. I just fixed it and updated the SWF.

er_dos 2014-05-04 05:07

Lol you can't really go wrong with sharks with lazers strapped to their heads!!

er_dos 2014-05-04 05:08

Lol you can't really go wrong with sharks with lazers strapped to their heads!! Very addictive!

blazingfanfish 2014-05-04 05:12

It gets boring when I realized that there's a spot where the shark won't go there because it spawn at the same place and have the same movement. Might trying to add some power ups or collectable to make the player moves more. :)

monaarc 2014-05-04 21:36

Nice game :)

teesquared 2014-05-05 04:25

@BlazingFanfish I tweaked the shark movement code to fix this issue.

scgrn 2014-05-07 04:14

Music would have been nice, but this is an awesome little shooter!

finefin 2014-05-09 10:37

not the greatest game ever made. but +1 for yellow submarine, +1 for laser equipped sharks :D

hybridmind 2014-05-10 21:17

Glad you have sharks with laser beams. Managed to score 1030. I like how it gets pretty hard to dodge all those sharks.

moosefly 2014-05-11 00:08

Got to a depth of a little over 7k units and a score of around 3.5k after a few tries. Would've been cool if the background kept getting darker the farther you went. Some ambient background music would've also worked wonders. Not a fan of the single-bullet-on-screen mechanic, but I guess it added an interesting risk vs. reward mechanic.

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pjchardt 2014-05-11 15:09

I experienced a couple quick depths from sharks when I was close to the edge of the screen. I know that part of the strategy is to try and stay in the middle. It might help a bit though if there is an indicator for where a shark is coming from before it enters the screen. Even if it is for less than a second. Maybe it will make the game too easy? Not sure, but perhaps worth a try? Nice work :)

mokujinzergman 2014-05-11 15:45

Good graphics, the sharks are really horribly horrifically horrifying.

Nice game.

mortus 2014-05-13 11:47

What the... I'm not sure what was it, but it was cool! Really simple gameplay but quite addictive! And it's yet another game where I love the bubbles. I guess I'm just a sucker for bubbles. Didn't know that before this jam, so thanks, I guess! Gotta make a game about bubbles myself next time!

snoringfrog 2014-05-16 04:54

Max depth of 5694. Interesting game, adding the lasers to the sharks is a very...unique touch lol.

mark-goetz 2014-05-18 02:43

Very cool, I like the sharks with laser beams and that they come in different sizes! It got a bit frustrating to kill sharks with only one bomb at a time, but getting in close worked well. The difficulty ramping works well too!

pikkpoiss 2014-05-18 18:54

Got really difficult! The one shot on screen at a time thing was interesting, since I could try to stay right over a shark and keep shooting rapidly, but in practice I died a lot more trying it than I felt like I benefitted from being able to kill a shark fast. Would be cool if there were markers at certain depths to let you know milestones as you descended.