natalia-dushkina 2021-04-25 18:23
At first I couldn't understand why I died) Died several times and only then thought that I might have oxygen limit. I love the music and the idea, it's funny)
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD48 → Deeper Than You Think
By genpaku
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 658 | 3.15 | 25 | |
| Fun | 626 | 3.04 | 25 | |
| Innovation | 695 | 2.76 | 25 | |
| Theme | 262 | 3.87 | 25 | |
| Graphics | 765 | 2.73 | 25 | |
| Audio | 495 | 3.04 | 24 | |
| Humor | 252 | 2.97 | 24 | |
| Mood | 460 | 3.22 | 24 |
At first I couldn't understand why I died) Died several times and only then thought that I might have oxygen limit. I love the music and the idea, it's funny)
@natalia-dushkina Hey, you have O2 on right side on the screen :) it supposed to be funny and hard so it works as it should :D
ok.
beutiful intro song, the game was way to dark for me, i could barely see anything. not bad gameplay and story was obviously oscar worthy!
Good job here :) I like the music and the idea and it's fun to dive and get those coins to ship to upgrade. Simple like good old kingregate games :) I was locked because I spent all my coins with 02 and then I couldn't buy a flashlight. Maybe the coins should glow a bit to be seen (but the player doesn't know how to get to them because he only see the coin, not the path) or maybe split 02 upgrades in two packs, and the second pack of 02 ugrade would be unlocked after buying flashlight. OR WE DONT CARE AND THE PLAYER RESTARTS AND STOP WHINING x)
My first try I wasted all of my money on the O2 and I couldn't find enough coins to buy the flashlight lol. I thought the audio was good and the controls work really well! Good job :)
Good game. I would've liked more coins in the first section, since I bought a lot of oxygen tanks and had to search for coins in the dark for the flashlight
@badpaul34 Hey, thanks, idea was that you have to buy flashlight to go deeper, so its a little strategic game, if you buy 2xO2 you should have 20 coins left for the flashlight to go deeper, i had them visible before but where is fun in that when you dont need to buy flashlight? :D "OR WE DONT CARE AND THE PLAYER RESTARTS AND STOP WHINING x)" yea that was the plan xD
Hello my friend. I have fun playing your game which fits with the theme. You did a cool project with many features - in less than two days. Impressive work. I really love your tiny song. First time I laughed hearing it. Thank you for your review about my game. Well done ++
I thought the controls and gameplay were intuitive. Loved the splash screen audio, and I thought the overall aesthetic was good. I wish it was a bit brighter. Solid!
can't see through the water so i don't care to play very much
Nice! Presentation is really charming and the gameplay loop is pretty cool. Little quality of life improvements that would improve the playability a lot would be: - Locking additional O2 purchases until you get the flashlight - Having O2 refill much quicker when you're on the surface - Speeding up your ascent somehow. Gets a bit tedious when you're deep down
But I don't expect that kind of stuff from a 48 hour game. Great work!
@pdotjpg Thanks, yea you right i should lock o2 purchases, but way as it is now game is harder. :) O2 refill is 2x O2 usage underwater, i could calculate it base on how much max o2 you have thought about it but i was rapairing some bugs and forgot about that. Hmm... i could add some kind of underwater scooter so more items in shop and when you buy it you can go like 2 or 3 times faster. I could some day make better version for this game, i realy liked making it, spend like 3 hours figureing out what should i sing in the main menu, I could use that time for something else. I'll learn to draw better and maybe i'll make new version of this in the future, but now i'm working on bigger project. You can check it out on my Youtube Channel if you like https://www.youtube.com/c/GenpakuChino/ :)
By three words: This is amazing! I'm looking forward to return to this game some time later and try to find the ring!
Funny, cute looking game. It plays well and I liked the upgrade system.
My suggestions are basically what other people said already: O2 should refill much quicker, and it's too easy to get locked out of the flashlight. I read you said you didn't want to make them visible, but perhaps making that zone just a bit darker could work.
Good job!
Very clever. It takes a few tries to figure out what's going on, but it's actually pretty fun. One problem I ran into was that I bought too much O2 by accident and wasn't able to find enough money for the flashlight before dying trying to randomly search in the dark. I guess that's part of the challenge. Congrats on the great game.
@asdehielo @andrew-hoyer Thanks, yeah I should have change O2 refill and purchases, I've tried to make it work fine without bugs and no one mention any bugs for now so that's good. :) I had zone a bit darker and not just black but when I was testing it I could just go for the ring and dont realy need to buy a flashlight.
LOL I really liked the song on game start menu XD
@maxds98 thanks i tried my best :D
Nice idea, I couldn't do much on my first run because I bought too many O2 upgrades instead of the flashlight.
The music added another sense of danger to the whole "diving in a dark spooky lake". I played the game before reading the comments. At first I didn't realize the O2 was an upgrade, I thought it was just a temporary boost then went to hard into the O2 upgrades. Decent game!
I also made too many O2 purchases and didn't have the flashlight for the dark exploration, though I soldiered on and got enough! I found once I got down to flashlight depths, I really didn't want to come back up because of the time involved. Movement was just very slow and tedious. Having a bit more speed, and a bit more direction on when the flashlight is required would be nice!
@nardandas yeah i should make something to speed up a game, it take me more than 6 minutes to win it, but i was a little worried that when i'll add something it could make it to easy or break the game.
So I think that I need to make better version of this game someday, I can find some time for this in like 2-3 months. I'll focus more on my youtube channel and my main project in june, couse I'll try to be fulltime game dev and if I find some time I could update this game based of all sugestions :)
I played 30 minutes to die so close to the end... So first I spent lot of time swimming randomly in the dark because no money to buy the torch, but then I managed to find the button and then the ring... But i'm dead 5 centimeters to the surface... Good entry tho ! :ring: :skull:
@ommadawn awwww that's sad story :/ yea i've made this game a little to hard, so sorry :(
@natalia-dushkina @hotpaw @badpaul34 @ljfmx @rushhourz @geckoo1337 @quoclon @pdotjpg @8bitcharlie @asdehielo @andrew-hoyer @maxds98 @schuster @mynameisnottim @nardandas @ommadawn Hey, i've uploaded video of making this LD entry, you can check it out here :) https://youtu.be/MiaE8wUnYK0