cavedens 2021-04-26 01:50
Very cool. I liked it a lot. The Visuals are very well done for being simplistic. Sound effects were super cute
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD48 → Aqua Mine
By kypello
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 66 | 4.05 | 39 | |
| Fun | 48 | 4.10 | 39 | |
| Innovation | 272 | 3.54 | 37 | |
| Theme | 49 | 4.28 | 39 | |
| Graphics | 83 | 4.17 | 39 | |
| Audio | 109 | 3.83 | 38 | |
| Humor | 159 | 3.36 | 35 | |
| Mood | 189 | 3.69 | 38 |
Very cool. I liked it a lot. The Visuals are very well done for being simplistic. Sound effects were super cute
Really well done. Nice graphics and gameplay.
The droplet sound effect on the main menu is hilariously wrong (but also very endearing for that reason).
Really fun game honestly ! I really liked it, it's well made, the graphics are coherent and quite nice, the sounds are cool. I just wish I was better at it ahaha I want to reach 1 million $$$ !!
Hey @kypello, thanks for submitting your game! I really enjoyed it :grin: Great work and very impressive for the short time to have that much content PLUS randomly generated levels that look nice!
The only thing, that i noticed was that a velocity threshold for damage against rocks would be a great addition :grin:
Wow, graphics are really good! You are a master of low poly!
I love this game!
Great job! Maybe add some camera shake when you smash rocks though :D!
Great job!
Love the low poly art style. Very fun mechanics. Good job
Great game, it's a little difficult and could use some more game feel since it feels very rigid and unresponsive at times, overall really fun.
Nice graphics. Cool game. Great job! :slight_smile:
Fun game whith really cute graphics.
Omg! So amazing! I was a bit skeptical at first as there is plenty of games about submarines and stuff so I was "eeeh, another submarine gameee" at first but holy crap! it's hilarious, creative and well-done overall. It took me a few playthroughs to get some nice results and the record bar in the menu is really useful. I love the description too btw xD
A lot of fun, played a couple rounds. Missed the control scheme and was a little frustrated trying to shoot the missiles. Would be good to add a tutorial or something of the like to be able to show off the whole game to everyone.
I'm really at this game but its fun x)
Nice one! I reached 278m and got 238 k$ on my best try.
A fun game, with nice audio (I love the little music!) and nice graphics. It is a bit hard to not hit walls at point but it's a really fun game anyway.
Congrats!
The music is nice, graphics are cute. Controls are a bit challenging, but overall I had a good time. Thank you!
This game was really, the graphics fit it nicely and was fun play!
Absolutely love the splash on the start menu! Gj!
10/10 on graphics! Had a lot of fun playing your game and controlling the "The Mining Submarine™™™™™" :smile_cat: Here's my score:
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this is a nice simple, but fun game! it had nice sound VFX and was a good play (although i had a bit of trouble but maybe that's just because i was bad at handling the controls). good work :smiley:
The squid with a the black paint was a touch of genius. Super fitting mechanic. Well done.
Adore this. Love the lowpoly look and the play mechanic is tremendous. Great little game. Would/will play again.
Ok finally I got time to play it. The game is so much fun, I loved it. You definetly went deeper putting a drill on a submarine :laughing: good job! Aqua mine.png
Great game! I adore the visuals, love the sounds. It was really fun to play. I do wish I didn't get hit while digging, since the bottom of the submarine still counts as a hit, although it does add to the difficulty. Overall really great. Well done!
Really nice art, quite a fun game idea! Also, pretty interesting twist on a submarine + mining direction. Well-polished and could be developed into a full game. Great job!
Very cool and fun game! I liked how you had different densities of the rocks making some harder to drill than others. The most I made was 209k. I loved the art style and the modeling. Well done and thanks for sharing! :clap: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1003785681?t=1h18m8s
I loved your concept. Very clean and nice to play. And the small details like the squid and the thing that breaks the drill were nice touches. Awesome art also!
Fun little game, i enjoyed playing. It was a little difficult to tell exactly how over/into a block you have to be to start mining or get hit by it
In this video I played your game and five other games. Soon I will make a detailed analysis via comment. :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAQ0odowKTg
** Analysis ... **
1 - Mechanics, Learning and Flow: The mechanics of the game consists of accumulating coins/treasures/money as you dive deeper and deeper into a submarine with a drill; to do this, the player needs to dodge some obstacles, while against others the player will need to decide whether to dodge or try to hit them with the drill (because it is risky to take damage or suffer temporary debuff); in addition, there are chests with coins and rocks (many of them with precious metals or minerals). The idea of mechanics seemed to me quite interesting, promising and fun; perhaps due to lack of time for testing and balancing, I believe that there is enough space to rethink the size of the rocks, or even their life points (in addition, the size of the submarine seems slightly exaggerated for the speed and life points of the rocks, I would suggest touching some of these elements and experimenting with how it would look). Learning to play had easy and difficult parts. For example, learning to move was easy, so I tested and saw how to do it; the use of the missiles was not so clear at first. Another thing that confused me was the fact that I was close enough to think I had been hit by the squid ink, but not been affected, which made me think that it would not affect me (reading the instructions, later, I realized that she would generate debuff in the vision). Anyway, the game is mostly intuitive and easy to learn the basics in the other elements. The flow of the game starts quite difficult, giving a feeling of anxiety for not being able to advance. I suppose that creating different layers of procedural generation, for different depths, can solve somehow. I would like to take this opportunity to suggest that you do several stages, with different themes and elements, as a possible way to expand the game with a view to commercialization.
2 - Graphics, Audio and Narrative: There is a certain simplicity in the graphics, but they manage to deliver practically everything that they aim to deliver. I would only suggest adding some interface element (in the teaching sense) that states that the arrows are used to use the missile (as I suggested in the video, the act of using the arrows without having missiles could generate a fault sound or something) . I liked the audio and sound effects, they were good for the event time. The main loop becomes repetitive after three or four starts, so in a version with polishment it is possible to do some intervention to make it even more interesting. The narrative is not the focus of the project, however it is evident the motivation of the main character in relation to getting money and it is also evident, from the description on the game page, that there was a certain amount of good humor in defining this.
3 - Culture: The game already makes use of several interesting cultural factors (in addition to the most obvious ones, such as the deep descent, the exploration of minerals in the ocean, sharks and even ecology), the game talks about searching for lost wealth and treasures). This makes me think that the notion that the game can be expanded in a number of different ways is even more relevant. This implies that it is possible to find interest groups on each of these topics on social networks to develop marketing (and similar) plans.
4 - Monetization: I believe that, with the necessary polishing, corrections in the descent experience (a little difficult nowadays), polishments and the addition of new stages; the game has everything to be sold on smartphones at low value or monetize through advertising. About selling in stores like Steam I suggest that the potential be confirmed through social media (still considering a polished version).