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Gleaming Depths

By kurakurture

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall474.1824
Fun1313.8624
Innovation834.0024
Theme324.3725
Graphics794.4325
Audio624.0924
Humor3523.0222
Mood804.1623

Comments

greenhots 2025-04-08 10:05

Sweeet, i liked it. Couldn't defeat last fish, but i'll come back later to finish the fish :P

helloylis 2025-04-08 10:07

Cool graphics, I really like this game, I would like more gameplay.

dywanix 2025-04-08 10:07

Very nice art style and gameplay idea!

tomas88a 2025-04-08 10:13

Great idea!The game very fun to play!!

enad96 2025-04-08 10:14

Great execution and polish!

enryu-mirik 2025-04-08 10:16

Wery nice, cool graphics and good gameplay, but I would like more control over randomness.

the-stewarts 2025-04-08 11:23

A fish spawned on me! Otherwise I have to say everything about this is excellent; art, sound, gameplay - I'd buy a polished version of this for sure, with upgrades and interesting progression (and the ability to go deeper for even more risk maybe?)

jester1454 2025-04-08 14:34

Cool mood, graphics and sounds!

juliocezar 2025-04-09 22:17

I feel the music in my heart friend, this game is amazing, thank you for the experience, I love it!!! Excelent work!

soul-grinder 2025-04-10 21:25

Wow this is quite impressive, there was some nice water effects used and the graphics where quite polished and the game was fun to play. Also nice game mechanic on the dice style combat, quite an interesting idea, nice work!

jacky-san 2025-04-11 18:43

Yeah, that's a cool game very nice polished graphics and good concept, a bit long to beat the boss but very well designed ! :two_hearts:

gwendalg 2025-04-11 19:08

The game is amazing, the graphics are nice, the sound is nice, and the gameplay is very smooth. I didn't even want to catch the last fish because of how it was enjoyable. One of the best game I've played so far in this jam, it could probably also do a great mobile game. Well done!

mikemikemakes 2025-04-11 22:12

This was lovely to play. The art is simply amazing. Polished, readable, and with a distinctive charm.

The sound design is also great. The sound effects for each action are satisfying and appropriate to the action.

I also enjoyed the gameplay concept. I've not seen fishing done in this way before.

I have only two minor gripes: 1) I found myself getting annoyed having to load the dice manually each time (drag mouse from fish to the various dice, back to fish. Shoot, repeat). Perhaps there could be a button to load. Or there could be an upgrade of some sort that helps you load automatically. 2) I wished there was some way to improve my odds beyond farming dice, especially when tackling the larger fish. Shooting at the biggest fish became tedious rather than enjoyable, because of how much farming it took to get enough powerful dice. Perhaps some way to upgrade the harpoon (have more dice on it) or a way to increase the odds of each dice (loaded dice?) could make the later game more enjoyable.

All in all, very polished. I enjoyed it a lot.

eugenik 2025-04-14 10:34

Very nice game!.

kirlosev 2025-04-16 14:59

I'm very impressed by graphics quality and the novel mechanic! The game feels punchy and satisfying to play. The can had troubles understanding the number is the remaining length of the rope (I thought it was how deep you were) and the way dice work as I didn't get that you need to roll a sum above the health of a fish. But then I got it and it went smoothly. I wish there were more upgrades. And it felt a bit too easy and the lack of the neccessity to get back to the surface made the gameplay loop vague to me. If I were to have a on oxygen tank that I need to re-supply and upgrade - that would help a lot. As an example. But overall a very good entry!

emily-c 2025-04-16 16:28

Wow! This game was really fun :) very cozy and relaxing to play ^^ Absolutely worth playing :D

nevercontent 2025-04-16 16:31

One of my favourites - love the music and the atmosphere. The difficulty level is just right for a jam too.

wallted 2025-04-23 19:14

This game is excelent visually, with jam's theme on point. This is a full product quality! I felt a little frustrated when I lost all my dice due to bad throws (but that's my own projection from IRL - I suck at dice and resource management :D). It took a few solid tries to catch the big fish, I needed to bounce back from dice banckrupcy ^^ Impressive jam entry

texugo 2025-04-25 18:43

Wow, incredible! The art is amazing and this is a great way to work with the theme. Really fun and engaging, congrats!