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SUPA SEAL-MAN!! 小さな氷山島に魚の事故!!

By alexhonor, renrok and moondweller

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall2373.9038
Fun1453.9738
Innovation6893.2038
Theme2754.0638
Graphics2484.1338
Humor174.4538
Mood304.3638

Comments

shpimpasta 2023-10-02 22:17

This is hands down the best experience I have had in a long time! Thank you very much!

onionlabs 2023-10-03 04:01

This was so fun! I loved the music and and atmosphere of the game. It was a little difficult controlling at first but then I got the hang of the friction. Great work!

dzugaru 2023-10-03 13:31

This is so fun and atmospheric! Loved the voiceovers and overall mood of the game! Reaching high scores requires a lot of skill though :)

owca 2023-10-03 18:52

omg! this is probably the weirdest game I played so far this LD, but I'm still smiling writing this comment. I wish there were more such crazy and positive games! Congrats! :D

spicymarcus 2023-10-03 18:57

Such an awesome game! I love the Japanese game show style, it creates a really fun and unique atmosphere while playing. Great job!

thejonu 2023-10-03 19:10

The music fits perfectly. Mood 10 out of 5. Had fun. (EDIT 5.10: I greatly prefer the original version without the voice lines during play. Came back to replay for the awesome vibes but sadly it's not the same anymore, as the voices are distracting and very repetitive.)

martin183 2023-10-03 19:27

スーパークールガメですね。 I liked the japanese game show theme, and nice gameplay that was easy to grasp!

pikario 2023-10-03 19:32

Ahahahahahah, this is so hilarious, thank you

magalix 2023-10-03 19:39

Ok this is perfect 10/10

fabienbk 2023-10-03 19:48

Well pack it up people, this is winner material

tomtomgome 2023-10-03 20:04

Haha very nice! As a humour amateur, I'm found of this entry. It's quite catchy !

navenka 2023-10-03 20:13

Oh god, I am so bad at this game, but I love it!! Very funny and unexpected! Excellent choice of music, I could listen to it for hours. The only thing I would have loved to see (and thought I would when I saw the image below the game) were the little legs of the fish animated, gliding across the ice! Amzagin job, thank you !!

babaorhum 2023-10-03 21:51

Very funny, loved it! Quite difficult too but it's a little bit addictif haha Love the 3D, the DA and the sounds!

ecmjohnson 2023-10-03 22:47

An excellent game! Truly the encapsulation of an ideal jam game

viktorthegreat 2023-10-03 22:53

For some reason, I was convinced that the game was about just staying on the iceberg for as long as possible (and dodging the fish) so I was super confused when the iceberg sank for the first time. But otherwise a fun little thing! I will admit though, I feel like it was missing something, maybe one extra move, like a spin move or something that clears fish faster but is hard to control.

I love the style though, it totally reminds me of something someone would've put in a 'WTF Japan' compilation back in the early 2010s!

renrok 2023-10-05 11:42

@navenka yeah, we wanted to add animations! But didn't have the time( We will definitely add some later though!

renrok 2023-10-05 14:51

@viktorthegreat, thank you! Glad you managed to figure out how to play :smile: We aimed to make a game as self-explanatory as possible, so we could omit implementing a tutorial. Guess we still need to give some explanations to the player :sweat_smile: Considering a special move - we had an idea to add a dash. But it turned out underwhelming and we did not figure out how to make it effective and satisfying in time, so we scrapped it altogether.

smitner 2023-10-05 15:54

I like the concept, like others I was confused why the iceberg sank on my first playthough - I then figured out you need to smash the fish off the platform. I think adding a small infographic would solve that communication .

Nice job! It was fun and the graphics are great

untitled-studios 2023-10-05 19:05

This is a modern masterpiece. Real Katamari vibes, which I had little doubt was an inspiration for this one. Simple, but super fun! Great job.

renrok 2023-10-06 08:18

@untitled-studios thank you! Yes, Katamari was one of the references for visuals and vibe)

jordantanner 2023-10-08 15:05

Fun mood and vibe on this one. Graphics look really good too. The simplicity is nice but I found myself wanting maybe one more game mechanic to play around with. Oh and I like how the fish have feet. :)

hakro 2023-10-08 15:23

Very nice ! and also, very trippy :D The game play feels very natural, and the graphics are cute. Not sure what LMB is used for though, I didn't seem to do much, I only played with WASD. GG overall.

milq 2023-10-08 15:44

I couldn’t stop laughing, ha, ha, ha! This game has a unique stamp that truly sets it apart from the rest! I’ve played both the original version and the post-jam version, and I must say, those subtle enhancements you’ve incorporated are noticeable; the effort has truly paid off. Tremendous game!

moondweller 2023-10-08 15:51

@hakro, thanks for your feedback! Whoops, our controls' descriptions appears misleading :D

You're right, left mouse button isn't used during gameplay. It's used for menu button clicking only :upside_down:

moondweller 2023-10-08 19:01

@navenka, hehe, we've finally added fish leg animations! You can see it in our POST-JAM verson :smiley:

moondweller 2023-10-08 19:55

@jordantanner thanks for your feedback!

Unfortunately, we didn't have time to add more gameplay features during jam weekend. We considered using dash or adding some extra events (like in Crash Bash Polar Panic minigame). Overall we decided to concentrate on vibe aspect of our game this time, but maybe we'll add some gameplay features later :)

lcstark 2023-10-11 09:16

Very fun game! The mood is amazing, the aesthetic made me feel like it was some sort of modern version of Takeshi's Castle. And the gameplay made me recall Crash Bash party minigames, so that's two cool things I liked reminded in one game. :)

I agree with others that it can be confusing at first (during my first playthrough or two I thought I had to eat the fish and the iceberg sank because I got fat :P), but you can get used to it and figure it out after a couple of tries. One thing that felt slightly weird to me is I couldn't tell how many fish it took to start sinking the iceberg. It might be because the gameplay is pretty hectic, but I thought that sometimes it went down with a much smaller amount of fish than before. Or do the fish get heavier with time? Maybe it would be good to make the sinking a more gradual process, or at least give the player some more warning signs that things are starting to go wrong.

The sounds are well fitting the game, but the music is just banging! Good thing you don't pause and mute the game when it isn't focused, so I can listen to the music while writing this comment. :D

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sleepystudios 2023-10-14 22:47

No idea what the fuck I just experienced but loved every second of it. Loved all the polish and how heavily you guys leaned in to the Japanese game show theme, it was absolutely brilliant!

prismapunch 2023-10-15 21:49

Hilarious

edgeboyo 2023-10-17 19:41

Such an awesome concept, the vibe this games gives off makes me want to see an entire party game with this artstyle like a Japanese game show. Amazing job :fish:

unless-games 2023-10-19 20:47

I had much fun playing this! Great entry, simple but well polished and cohesive! すばらしい

lincolnsalles 2023-10-20 18:10

It was a similar approach to the theme to four others that I played here at the jam, one of which I saw that you saw. Yours is funny, it has these Japanese voices that gave it a comical and original touch. What I didn't like or didn't find out how to do is that I can't do anything with the damn ducks, I want to kill them, but I can only dodge...

alaah 2023-10-20 20:13

Whenever the topic of video games as an art form comes up, we usually think of games deliberately made to evoke higher emotions–games like Myst, Gris, Papers Please, or anything made by Thatgamecompany. Of course, everyone has had different experiences and will come up with their own examples. As for me, however, the first game that comes to mind is **SUPA SEAL-MAN!! 小さな氷山島に魚の事故!!**