Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD55 → The Salmoning
By villhest and RadixLecti
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 1056 | 3.09 | 33 | |
| Fun | 800 | 3.22 | 33 | |
| Innovation | 415 | 3.53 | 33 | |
| Theme | 1160 | 2.56 | 31 | |
| Graphics | 915 | 3.14 | 33 | |
| Audio | 685 | 2.93 | 31 | |
| Humor | 393 | 3.36 | 32 | |
| Mood | 996 | 3.06 | 31 |
I like the pun and think the controls work well - the idea of oscillating mouse movements up-and-down to increase speed is a lot of fun. The sound design breaks a bit when you try to get above the water, but otherwise it sounded on point. Good job!
i absolutely adore the movement, it's so fun. Love the dolphin jumps. Sadly there is no way of rating the game, otherwise i would have rated it very high. 10/10 pun
The sounds and visuals are so good! The controls are very interesting, would love to see a full game made out of this!
It is very satisfying to zoom along the river! The ambience is perfect, after seeing the mention of jumping in the other comments I went back to try it, I loved the brief birdsong you hear as you sail across the water
Love the play on the theme. I noticed there was a sweet spot in the middle top right where you never have to move. But the fun is in dodging the obstacles and jumping out of the water. The god rays are a nice touch, I think adding water caustics to the bottom of the stream would compliment that. Good job!
Nice twist to the theme. Well done ;).
Holy this game lets you schmoove. If there was a more involved game where you moved around like this I would absolutely love it
The sounds are really good! I love the visuals but would have loved a bigger challenge.
Very fun controls, very unique idea, sound design is nice, unfortunate sound bug when exiting the water but nothing nasty !
Great job it's a fun game :)
Funny wordplay hahaha I want to put the pumping music from "Jaws" on the background
Pretty, low stress, good pun, good music. I swam through a lot of branches but didn't seem to slow me down.
Well, I played a few retries but couldn't catch anything, due to controls, or at least I think the issue is the sudden acceleration that happens when changing depth. I found by accident that you can move by hopping in and out of the water, which is a very nice feature and that became my main mode of travel and the only thing I was doing for 10 minutes. Great mood overall despite gameplay issue.
I like being a fast fish. I found it very difficult to eat the other fish, though, and some audio+visual feedback when eating them definitely would've helped. I echo what the last person said also about it being hard to intentionally steer into the fish to eat them. The high speed and their small size also makes them hard to see.
Interesting mechanism.
I'm glad that pun made it into the jam! We are all better for it :D.
Salmoning is just a great pun
I liked the game and the creativity, I find it a bit challenging to avoid the obstacles and at first I didn't notice the other fish
I enjoyed salmoning, but didn't really seem to get the game. It seemed like I only lost stamina while hitting things, and could never really get far enough over to eat. Anyway, I had fun going fast!
I didn't feel the Summoning theme experience much except for the title lol, but I actually liked it a lot. I must admit, at first, I didn't understand how to play; I thought it was something in first-person and that I had to dodge the fish in front of me. But then I realized it was me; as I moved the mouse, the speed changed until I started to get agitated and went at full speed. I jumped up onto the water, and that's when I got excited. Quite an inspiring concept, and I liked how you repeated assets to create a very pleasant atmosphere. Congratulations on that.
I had a hard time figuring out the controls, but once I did it was so satisfying! I really like the idea (very funny pun) and the environment is coherent, which is nice. Well done!
Probably the funniest twist on the jam theme so far, I had a great time playing the game!
5 out of 5 for theme, 100% hit. The gameplay itself is pretty innovative, at least I didn't stumble such mechanics before. It seems like a prototype for a really cool mobile timekiller.
Okay, that was... unexpected. A few minutes of relaxing swimming in the river
I had fun seeing how high i could get the salmon to jump, was a chill game and i like the pun