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How Low Can You Go?

By dancan, hypernerd and Robmcg

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall14963.1521
Fun11613.1821
Innovation16832.5721
Theme6423.8421
Graphics12733.3320
Humor13821.9318
Mood15732.8820

Comments

phealsout 2021-04-26 22:10

About this long

phealsout 2021-04-26 22:12

Till now

phealsout 2021-04-26 22:12

Pretty nice game, like the visuals

rgb-games 2021-04-26 22:13

The game is quite fun. A little hard perhaps but that's just me :)

namrog84 2021-04-26 22:14

It was surprisingly more challenging to spear fish than I anticipated! I enjoyed it! I made it pretty deep before dying!

natethegreat 2021-04-26 22:19

Nice simple but fun game! The lighting is a nice subtle touch.

luketobin 2021-04-26 22:22

It was challenging to control your movement and with having limited time to capitalize on attacking the core gameplay became fun. I loved the leaderboard addition at the end, made me want to try again a few times.

gomega 2021-04-26 22:29

Really great stuff! I was impressed by how fun the game was to play; the movement was spot-on.

The addition of the game getting darker as you get deeper was a well-needed touch to make the game more interesting and difficult. The leaderboard was a good touch to keep me playing for more than one round as well.

One thing I would add is some sort of feedback to let the player know that they are taking damage. For instance, I couldn't quite tell if the fish were close enough to hit me or not, or if the rocks did any damage at all.

Overall, I think you did a great job making a difficult, but fair challenge.

robmcg 2021-04-26 23:06

Thanks for your feelback @gomega. I've pushed a small change to flash the player when you take damage.

evil-villain-games 2021-05-02 06:12

Wow I really love what you did with the theme. The glowing fish and everything slowly getting darker was an awesome effect. The leader board was a great touch too.

doctortm 2021-05-04 01:32

It was more fun than expected! Great jam, love the graphics. Interesting mechanics.

loretv 2021-05-05 11:00

Cool game! At first I thought it will be very easy to shoot the fishes, but it's actually harder to hit them than I expected :D

tengusheath 2021-05-06 03:14

Starts to get hard once you get more fish chasing you

mololo 2021-05-17 14:55

Great game, the graphics look good and the gameplay is very engaging and fun. The level of difficulty makes me want to try again and get a higher score, which is great.

I would have liked a bit of background music and maybe shooting sounds, but a great game nevertheless.

Good job.

bmacintosh 2021-05-17 15:56

Nice visual style. The art was pretty good, and I really liked the flashlight effect. Also a fun idea to have previous players appear in-game and not only on the leaderboard! For some reason I can't fully explain, it felt somewhat more difficult than it should have to harpoon big groups of fish. They tended to get bunched up easily but I could never get more than a few at once; I don't know if there was a limit?

ntimi 2021-05-17 16:21

Great stuff! Your game is one of the few I played where you took the theme quite literally and made something interesting and challenging with it. :)

The spearfishing was not easy, but satisfying. There were some points in the game where I had nearly cleared the screen of fish, but then more (and bigger) fish came and made my life stressful again. The gradual descent with rising darkness was a great style.

The only thing I was missing was any sound - the mood in your game was top notch, that would have brought it to perfect.