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Sonar
By erikiene, Mackandrius, Cerka, rytisruk, Lukas-IP, Lauris Maz, redenblu and egle
View on ldjam.com
| Category | Rank | Score | Count |
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| Overall | 105 | 4.04 | 57 | |
| Fun | 235 | 3.78 | 57 | |
| Innovation | 317 | 3.62 | 56 | |
| Theme | 280 | 3.97 | 57 | |
| Graphics | 20 | 4.62 | 58 | |
| Audio | 38 | 4.26 | 57 | |
| Humor | 522 | 2.94 | 47 | |
| Mood | 19 | 4.45 | 58 | |
Comments
Pros : - Cohesive visuals and feel - Great presentation and lore - Really liked the fact that drops became rarer in the starting zone so I had to go explore - Found out very quickly I could destroy stuff for scrap - The sonar idea is really great
Cons : - In most games I play with the mouse, left click is for attack and right click is for movement commands, so... that was very weird. (Maybe it's because I thought movement meant clicking a point and automatically going there) - Holding down the left mouse button for the entire duration of the game to move gets a bit tedious - Drops became so rarescarce in the starting zone (and its surroundings) that I had to travel for a minute left and right to get some scraps (in an empty screen) and with the fact that the ship inventory is limited... A bit frustrating and boring. - The sonar area is a bit small imo, I can see everything that it shows me even without it
Bugs (?) : - There was no upgrade system for my submarine (maybe not implemented?) - On my first playthrough, when i tried to dive a bit, I somehow died instantly (idk what happened, I went from no hp bar to red and death in 1s) - I had to restart the game whether I won or died to play again (game just stops responding when it ends/ is not interactive anymore) - I'm not even sure if I won, because the main ship sank a lot, and when I came to finish the repair, an animation started... But the sound of my ship being destroyed to death kept playing (because I was taking depth damage) and... Nothing.
gastar
2022-10-04 08:06
Very fun! Cool graphics and sound
kitkii
2022-10-04 13:54
Such a great game. It uses the theme really well and love the little handbook PDF given. I don't think ive seen anyone do something like that before. Some issues I had was that the upgrades for each of the options look like it was 4/5 so I kept trying to upgrade them thinking it would work only to realise that it just repairs them. I guess I hit the max upgrades but just visually it looked like I was like 4/5 upgrades. I think once I maxed out on sonar it became why to clustered since it picks up everything, but it did make getting the last few things easier. After fixing the main ship was that everything? I was thinking based on the small enemy ships there might be an additional bigger one or something as a boss but if it was more a feeling of diving then you nailed it 100%. I loved the graphics and how it felt. The models and SFX really were spot on.
Awesome
The mood is so nice! I really like it. It's also crazy you integrated Wwise! It really pays off!
arscene
2022-10-04 15:57
The shooting is pretty difficult.
Aside from that you did an excellent job. Very polished game and cool concept !
PS: two of your links are broken
drsmey
2022-10-04 16:01
Really gread mood and visuals. The UI can be a bit hard to read and having to zoom in and out for it is sligthly annoying.
Good job overall.
dod108
2022-10-04 16:04
Super cool, the atmosphere is 10/10. Holding the mouse button the entire time is a bit tedious tho.
As a 3D modeler I really liked your graphics, the sound is also on the level, and the gameplay is quite interesting. And you also have very cool physics of the submarine's behavior, it moves so cool inertly.
The graphics are top notch, and I had lots of fun using the sonar mechanic! Really nice atmosphere!
sethios
2022-10-04 16:25
The game is amazing! And then people ask me why I'm scared of the deepness of the ocean, lol
I like that the resources and the submarine are sinking down, forcing you to update your equipment if you don't want to lose, although you can circumvent this by rushing to get as much resources as possible and upgrade your equipment a lot at the beginning. The handbook is a great addition too!
A very packed and well designed project, well do on that one. Had a little bit of pain guiding the ship as when you accidentally LMB click very close to the ship - it automatically opens the upgrade menu and removes the ability to steer. In all other aspects - felt great. Just as IMHO thought - maybe a "restart" button on the game loose screen would be great! All-in-all well done!
forik
2022-10-04 16:51
Epic mood and visual style.
Please fix - if you die you have only one button - Quit Game.
Ty for game and greate job!
Sound and graphics are outstanding! I can tell that the game feels very good. I really liked the visuals, sound and partially gamepley. Gameplay is not clear for me. Even after I completed the game I didn't understand why submarine get destroyed from time to time after that rapid bipping. And when you die the game closes and you need to start it again - it annoys :) But overall impression is good
pretty good game
settings
2022-10-04 16:56
Wow, big team and big aspirations. I had to play the original upload as the link to the patched version wasn't working for me.
- I really liked how you implemented the theme into this, it was very clever.
- The atmosphere is top notch, it's definitely one of the most impressive looking and sounding games I've played in a ludum dare. To me, it surpassed the definition of a jam game in technical levels, it looks very polished, 5/5 without a doubt.
- Design is also fun and it's addicting to harvest things.
Some critical feedback:
- [IGNORE]* I think my game was broken, as there was no more loot or enemies spawning after the initial wave.I've tried several times but no shot, so I couldn't really upgrade my ship or deliver enough resources.
- I also would have preferred if I had started closer to the surface, on the delivery area, so I could have more time to gather my surroundings and test movement/shooting.
- When trying to aim, I tried to click in the desired direction, but the ship would turn in a weird way and I missed my shots! The only way I could properly aim was to shoot WHILE moving in a particular direction. I personally did not like that
- I thought the futz dialogue tracks were sick, but I couldn't really understand what was being said. While I understand that might have been intentional, I would have preferred for it be more intelligible. Also on audio: I felt there could be a wider spread in ambience between the surface and the depths: closer the surface it could be way more lighter and safer, and closer to the depths heavier and imposing (like it is now).
Impressive entry imo
* Edit: ohhhhh you are just supposed to keep exploring, I get it now.
legolula
2022-10-04 17:00
Really great entry, got me playing it for a while! I agree the controls could be better but every thing else was great, from art to game design, congrats.
Nice and fun! I loved the physics and the overall mood. I guess you should add some failsafes in the code. You can go out of the water pretty easily once you have some upgrades. And you can even make your ship disappear!
Sans titre.jpg Sans titre2.jpg
I felt that the last updates were very slow to apply. Pretty impressive for a jam game! Good job!
clonze
2022-10-04 17:08
the UI really stands out to me. It looks really good, may I ask how you achieved the rounded lines and glow effects? Line renderer or is it all static imported textures?
minipeps
2022-10-04 17:12
Nice game! Loved the atmosphere of depth exploration, and apparently submarines can fly too :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:
Great job. Really cohesive game design. Sound design, everything, great.
I really like the atmosphere and sounds of this game ! The design of the submarine, the lighting and and the sonar effect are beautiful. They really help the immersion (lol.) The sonar idea is great and really make the gameplay funnier. For the points of improvement, the fights with drones are a bit clumsy, it is hard to aim as you cannot turn without propulsion. Also if you upgrade the propulsion too much it gets very hard to decide where you go. Finally, it is a pity that there is no real menu and that the game quit when you win or lose. Very good job
beefsock
2022-10-04 17:34
Great game! It really FEELS like you are in the ship underwater. Love that it was created in 3D when 2D would have probably been much easier for your team. 3D helps feel the depth of the ocean and surfacing out of the water much more refreshing. Great audio too!
Interesting, another sonar-based interpretation of the theme. I did a game based around radar, so I've been paying more attention to these radar/sonar games. It's always interesting to see the wide variety of ways people can implement a similar idea. Unfortunately I couldn't get this one to run on Linux using Wine :(
redenblu
2022-10-04 17:50
@clonze Thaanks! Really glad to hear! Yeah it was static PNGs:)
khullag
2022-10-04 18:00
assets and game concept is great! the links on the page are broken, so i could only download it from dropbox - so i'm not sure if i've played the version with fixes or not. but i've noticed that death screen doesn't have restart button, so you have to quit. also movement on left mouse button is feeling clunky. but overall the game is awesome! good job :)
rowdy3
2022-10-04 18:09
Wow, this is definitely one of the best produced games I saw this far. The visuals are amazing and the controls fun (you can get overpowered very easily with some upgrades). It was a lot of fun, and it kinda makes you think what would happen if you'd be able to dive deeper :)
fedir
2022-10-04 18:14
File no found( to load. Doesn`t matter is it 1 version, or second( Oh, nvm its work on 3 link)))( not counting PDF)
jirrev
2022-10-04 18:15
Definitely feels very well polished, which is to be expected with such a large team, but you seem to have used those resources well. Overall an enjoyable experience, the hud is a bit hard to read sometimes, but that is just occasional and depends on the background behind the hud at times
Very nice graphics! Fun to play!
parsonb
2022-10-04 18:26
Incredible visuals, very well polished overall. Great to see a team working so well together!
Would love to play it, but my antivirus picks up a Bitcoin miner when I try to run it. *shrug*
is the link broken? i really want to play it, it looks so cool :(
sudocat
2022-10-04 19:05
Great style, and solid execution. I'm absolutely terrible at it, but that did not make it any less cool. I really like the sonar mechanic for the spin on the 10 second theme. The submarine controls are wobbly and a bit janky, but that feels appropriate for the game and setting. it was somewhat difficult to comprehend the world and what to do, but again, I like a bit of that in my games.
awesome use of the theme! This is super well produced
link seems brocken nothing
lukas-ip
2022-10-04 19:08
The website download links are broken for some reason. However, you can use the google drive link (bit.ly) to get the lattest version.
fedir
2022-10-04 19:14
Wow its great game, especially graphics, sad can`t rate it)
Do you have the ability to release a Mac or web build? I'd love to play!
Wow this game was really cool. I loved the visuals and sound for this game. The AI voice on the submarine fit really well. Also, controlling the submarine felt really smooth and fun. Good stuff!
Points for the employee handbook! Looked like even the bit.ly url had issues but it's working now so will try again.
Great creepy atmosphere. Really like the sound design!
I really enjoyed the game althou i found the controlls a bit counter inuitive (i think this was mentioned b4) But all in all great game and awesom graphics
The mood is fantastic, the setting of big evil corp is great - good humour. Overtones of the old Motherload game. The 3D submarine twisting around in the ocean is great (neat twist effect and good use of lighting), beside this looming huge ship. Only downsides were that I'd have preferred LMB and RMB to flip purpose - seems odd to put the key most held down on LMB and the trigger-happy one in the less-convenient RMB slot. The only other oddity is that the drop off info seems to be more of a distant decal you have to zoom in to read, rather than being rendered orthographically as a UI item. I still really enjoyed this though!
This is a really cool game! The visuals are epic and the gameplay is relaxing. My biggest problem with the game is that the best strategy is just gathering crates near the surface so the upgrades aren't really necessary. But then again, zipping along at Mach 10 is pretty fun Lol.
cslupius
2022-10-04 20:28
Great game, a restart button would be nice :) having to reopen the game again and again kind of threw me off
zyger
2022-10-04 20:31
Great Game!!! the art and overall feel of the game is amazing. it super relaxing to play and i like that. really good game!
A lot of fun, as others have mentioned a smoother transition on end (failure or success) would be great (as of now it just exits!) :). Can't rate maybe because a team mate did or maybe it missed the deadline? Not sure.
The graphics and atmosphere on this game are great! I'm not sure what was going on with the difficulty though - the first two times I played I got blown up straight away by two enemies, then the third time I didn't encounter a single enemy. Still had a fun time with it though!
Really nice atmosphere and presentation! The first time I played I completely forgot there was an upgrade system, oops. It wasn't hard to beat the game like that when putting all of your materials into the submarine instead of spending them on upgrades. Even with upgrades, it seemed like the 10-second radar ping wasn't too helpful as opposed to just looking at the silhouettes of nearby objects. The delay before firing a torpedo was a little difficult to work with, too. But the controls were all really smooth in general.
2022-10-04 21:03
cool game! love the atmosphere, very inspiring! you should expand on this. i found the upgrades a little confusing but it didn't matter much.
Uau, nice game, love the atmosphere its lot a fun! Great sound designer!
madness
2022-10-04 21:10
Great game, it definitely feels good to play but some things are a little complex at the start, also the announcer is a little hard to understand but overall a incredibly well made game for a jam.
cdmaniac
2022-10-04 21:17
Such a DEEP and IMMERSIVE avdenture! The sound design makes wonder, the environment behind really put you in the mood, and the mover of the submarine is a real pleasure. My only regret is to have been able to emerge on surface to discover pretty much nothing. I'm still looking for the theme also. Anyway, it's an awesome game overall!
sohei
2022-10-04 21:19
I have nothing more to add. All cons and pros have been mentioned. This is a great game from a great team. I'm amazed, interested, moody, enjoying, struggling, thinking and having fun. Good job!
Epic graphics, great mood, basically great everything lol. One of the absolute best games of Ludum Dare!
However, it is a bit unpolished, a few problems here and there, but other than that, amazing job.
antsa
2022-10-04 21:39
I didn't quite understand how to progress with the game other than move around, shoot things, collect things, maybe upgrade something if I had enough of the stuff I had collected and then randomly arrows would show up all around my monitor.
Graphically the game was really cool for a Ludum Dare game. I think the "robotic" sound could have been a bit clearer. I didn't quite understand what it was saying
EDIT: I should have probably read the LD description first before playing the game :D
arihan10
2022-10-04 21:40
I love this!!! I found it to be really, really polished, and can easily see this being a Steam game lol. The only criticism I would have is that I found the relationship to the theme to be a bit lacking. Overall though, I had a ton of fun! Good job :D
Wow, really well made and impressive work for this short amount of time :O
Feedbacks : - The game is really hard at start - No retry button
Great game, verry well polished. I would like a replay button in the game over screen and is a bit hard to get in the beginning. Good work guys!
nija463
2022-10-04 22:48
Wow Amazing, great mood, fun game, polish, maybe a bit too noisy, nice sound, need a replay button,gg
Really cool! Having a dedicated key to trigger upgrades would be nice, since I found myself clicking the sub by accident while trying to navigate sometimes.
This is a super awesome game!
zhelding
2022-10-04 23:40
Real cool vibes and interesting take on the theme! Core gameplay is rather fun -- but I do feel like there should either be quicker spawn-times on pickups and enemies, or more involved mechanics around maintaining / upgrading your sub.
bcmpinc
2022-10-04 23:42
You can update your game description by clicking the pencil in the bottom right corner. There you can remove the broken download links.
At the start of the game it wasn't clear what I was supposed to do. The game would benefit from some intro were it explains what you're supposed to do. I figured it out though and managed to beat the game. The graphics are great. They really set the mood of the game.
Really cool graphics and concept! However, if I could make one suggestion, I would make the projectiles in the game, much, much slower. It would be very fun to avoid them! Great Job!
alexzoin
2022-10-04 23:52
Great job! I really liked the lore and the vibe of the game. Gave you a 5 for mood for sure. Aiming the torpedo was my least favorite part. But I really liked everything else about it!
Thanks!
div00
2022-10-05 00:00
Impressive game, the visuals and animation are stunning. It was hard to get my mind around it in the beginning. It's not easy to get the difference between the drop area and the HUD we have around the submarine. The mechanic around the upgrades has a room of improvement. Good entry :slight_smile:
Had a lot of fun with this one, played through it a few times. Diving deep didn't seem to have much of a purpose, I managed to win the first time just by skirting along the surface eating all the stuff that spawned in. I really enjoyed picking up speed and launching myself into the air to do a bunch of flips. You can jump so high you actually clear the sky and wind up in space for a moment. There was a bug with the upgrades when you get the last one, it would still appear as though I hadn't bought it. Wish I could still continue playing after 'winning' so I could goof off a bit with max upgrades, had to play through it again and max out so I could mess around.
The game is really polished. I loved the lore, and the mood you set with all, including the Handbook. But I could not get over the controls. Perhaps a WASD movement would work and having you target turrets on the side to fire the torpedos (so that the level of the submarine stays consistent throughout? Well done regardless!
erikiene
2022-10-05 07:29
Firstly - tagging all of the folks who couldn't rate the game because we dun goofed and by accident toggled the opt out. If you'd like to rate it now - please do :star2:
Then, most importantly - thank you all for taking the time to play our game and writing up a comment (or many!). I think this is what we all are here for - see folks play our games, enjoy or hate them, and articulate constructive feedback so that we can add to our understand of what a good game means to people. The team loved reading all of these, so again - thank you :heart:
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great polished game with stunning visuals. the only problem is the control scheme its a bit weird and it doesnt feel natural
Wow! Thanks for all the feedback people, this is incredible! 🙏 Sorry about the ratings thing, we were all very confused as to why people couldn't rate the game, but that seems to be sorted now. We'd very much appreciate your ratings if you wouldn't mind doing them in retrospect 👀
On behalf of our audio team, I'll try to respond to comments on the audio. It's so great to see all your feedback, ideas and that at least a portion of you up until now seem to be liking the sound. I noticed that a few of you mentioned that the VOs were difficult to understand - that's very helpful and will be fixed in the future, thanks.
@melbadream thanks for pointing out the bug, where the atmospheric pressure sounds continue to play if finishing the game, whilst receiving atmospheric pressure damage. That one has already been fixed in the current SONAR_v1.0.2bugfixes build
@leon-regula Cheers! Wwise is brilliant!
@settings thanks for the feedback, I completely agree! The atmosphere actually does change and becomes 'heavier' as you descend deeper and new sounds appear as well, but I agree that it certainly could be more apparent. Glad you liked the the VOs and thanks for pointing out they are not intelligible enough. Originally, they were supposed to be coming from the sub and not understandable at all, but then during development I kept making them louder and louder until they sort of became a game mechanic. So now they're sort of neither this nor that haha. Although moving forward, especially after reading some comments, we'd make them proper game mechanics and easily intelligible.
@lepletier thanks!
@madness yes the VO should be clearer, at least that seems to be clear now haha. Thanks!
@cdmaniac Thank you! (for the feedback and the puns 😂)
@antsa the goal of the game for now at least was to try to fix the 'mothership'. I guess our spin on the theme was that the sonar activates every 10s, showing you where the materials and enemies are. Ah yes, the VOs seems to be an issue that people can't understand it, thanks for pointing that out as well. Cheers!
@nija463 thanks!
nija463
2022-10-05 09:50
@mackandrius, yes, of course ! I'm happy to rate this with my biggests stars, you guys nailed it, deserved. clap clap !
boclow
2022-10-05 10:25
Fun submarine game! I thin the visuals were really great and sonar system was really good. Especially after some upgrades the material searching was really fun. Also sound design was top tier and really nailed the dark underwater feel.
One this that felt bit weird was the torpedo shooting. I did not see clear indication of when I was able to shoot. I also thought first I would shoot where I point the cursor, as that was how the ship was moving. I also maybe bugged the upgrade system, as it would not let me upgrade anymore even when I had resources.
Overall great moody jam game!
cerka
2022-10-05 12:02
@nija463 thanks, really nice to hear that!
grizeldi
2022-10-05 14:54
Loving how polished this game is!
I played this for you on [stream](https://www.twitch.tv/timbeaudet) and I think I gave good feedback there, if so give a heart, and if not, don't!!
lame-rat
2022-10-05 15:58
I'm glad to see a similar game with ours, you have an interesting interpretation of sonar :hearts: Great job! At first I just thought it was necessary to upgrade the submarine to dive to the depths, and I died in deep darkness :smiley:
xparker
2022-10-05 17:40
Very polished entry, nice idea. IMO missing a moody audio track, but great job.
doccrazy
2022-10-05 19:08
Great game with amazing visuals and a nice take on the 10 second theme. Could really use some more enemies, though. I only met one in my entire playthrough, and it died with a single shot. As of now, the game lacks a real challenge and feels a little grindy.
pegasys
2022-10-05 23:11
Awesome visuals and sounds. I like the idea of having you only be able to see every 10 seconds, just wish it took more of a precedence - mostly just ignored the radar because I could see the stuff anyway. Overall just a really smooth experience though!
faust-mi
2022-10-06 19:46
Awesome! Super mood. Excellent visuals, sound and vibe!!! Thank you for experience and game!
Beautiful presentation and atmosphere, definately a great game
I really enjoyed the moodiness of this one! Excellent job with keeping the environment dark and scary, and enhancing the feeling of isolation and danger with the audio.
This was such a cool experience. Loved the atmosphere and I looved the little monsters in the bakground. I wish there had been more enemies, but that was fine. I found a mine floating in the air :P Amazing audio and really cool gameplay. Good job! :)
WOW! I FELT like I was under water! The bubbles were my favorite part, how they swirled around you like that! It was super peaceful! And everything worked so well with each other! My only thing was that it felt like the drones were nearly non-existent. But I could so just sit in this game and let the music wash over me!
r3l0ad1
2022-10-07 15:41
Nice game! The graphics are really good and it is very fun to play
rickylee
2022-10-07 16:49
Amazing! ^^ this is exceptional work well done all of you! that speed upgrade became a hindrance eventually haha :sweat_smile: and i think my sub flipped to fire away from the camera but I managed without it. Really good game I had a lot of fun playing ^^
leorid
2022-10-07 23:10
Constructive Criticism as requested:
- The UI should scale with the screen size or the camera should zoom in automatically when the upgrade menu is open because doing this with the mouse wheel is slow and not really required (idk if this issue is only on 4k screens) - The game would benefit from a clear indicator when the weapon is ready and auto-rotating towards the mouse when the shoot button is clicked, otherwise I have to move towards my enemies to fire at them which feels a bit unituitive - I think the hull upgrades enable the ship to dive deeper? As this is only required to pick up old crates and ressources and new ones drop from the surface where they are easy to see, the optimal solution is to stay on the surface and only collect there, where the sonar isn't really needed - Deeper in the water visibility is almost zero, so 10 seconds to wait for the sonar feels long, while close to the surface, it feels just about right, increasing the spotlights on the ship could solve this issue and reveal more from the cool underwater environment - WASD Controls with Mouse only to aim and shoot would allow for more encounters with enemies, as well as different moving crates to further extend the experience
A very moody game that was visually very pleasing with good audio to support it.
Loved the overall mood of the game. I agree with the other points, I feel like I'm fighting the controls a bit. I did enjoy the mouse movement, but even just having the sub rotate to face the mouse when you right-click would make it feel a lot smoother, I think. Would also love an option to just hold right click instead of having to press it every time I want to fire.
Hi there! I managed it and even tho the controls were not so easy to get it was pretty fan experience! Nice job guys!
icxon
2022-10-09 20:12
Great gameplay and atmosphere! Aiming control is a bit confusing but I think I figured it out. I wish the game encouraged me to submerge deeper for more rare resources because upgrades are really fun to use.
My playthrough:
https://youtu.be/hDmNGzyt_LM
cerka
2022-10-10 10:04
@icxon thanks for your playthrow, you nailed it!