richjbaron 2026-04-20 05:03
omg this is so great! I absolutely love the vibin' dude riding the rope down to the bottom of the ocean haha. Music is awesome too. Fun game and great entry!!
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD59 → Salvager
By j4cko16
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 84 | 3.70 | 22 | |
| Fun | 106 | 3.50 | 22 | |
| Innovation | 214 | 3.00 | 22 | |
| Theme | 209 | 3.22 | 22 | |
| Graphics | 79 | 3.82 | 22 | |
| Audio | 17 | 4.09 | 22 | |
| Mood | 88 | 3.69 | 20 |
omg this is so great! I absolutely love the vibin' dude riding the rope down to the bottom of the ocean haha. Music is awesome too. Fun game and great entry!!
Music is amazing! Love how it changes with the depth. I found a good strategy of sticking to the side of the wall at first. Graphics look great too and I love the variety of fish.
fun game! reminds me a bit of ridiculous fishing.
@austinmerrick I have never heard of that game lol, but i've already been told by a few people that it is like that. I'll check it out
Love the audio in this game! You did a great job at conveying the progressing depth!
I do feel like the game is a little too punishing in the beginning. You can rack up so many small fish very quickly and then the run is basically over. I also think it would have been fine if you could gather multiple treasures in a dive as that would speed up progression and I think the game is hard enough that it would not have made it too easy? Maybe at least limit it to a bag that can hold 3 treasures that then can be upgraded?
The overall feeling and art style really hit the mark tho and I love my little dude hanging on his rope and just exploring the depths. I really loved the glowing jellyfish!
Love the vibe of the game! Going deeper really feels like I'm sinking into the depths of the ocean.
I think it's super awesome how the music distorts as you get deeper, but I'm not enjoying the music in the first place so maybe that's not ideal.
The beginning feels pretty frustrating though, it takes more effort than I would like to get things going.
Nice game ! i encounter the jellyfish area and the deeper was 600m but i didnt find other stone :/ overall good polised game, and i love the audio and the walk animation !
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Great addictive gameplay loop! felt very polished and love how music shifted based on gameplay, serious battletoads vibes, it really made me want to try again just one more time to see if I could get farther, well done!
The graphics when we go underwater are amazing, and the music is truly excellent. However, since we don't really do much with the signals directly, it feels only loosely related to the theme. Also, the fish won't leave the lamp alone, and after a point, it starts feeling like a "fish avoidance simulator."
I'm a sucker for these kind of replayable games, and this one is so well-done! Thank you! It always surprises me how good and polished experiences can come out of this compo <3
Interesting take on the theme. Very good use of audio, and damn those fish are annoying! :laughing:
Excellent work -- well done!
Love the graphics and how the sound slows down as fish cover the lantern, its a very nice touch. Well done.
Its really cute. Very replayable, and super polished for the time frame.
The audio all around is great. You added dynamic music I see, which is awesome. I love that the tracks fade in and out as you complete a level and rise back up
The graphics are also really charming, and the game works flawlessly with no bugs (as far as I encountered)
The gameplay is a bit shallow (no pun intended) but the shop helps with that. My only main issue is that I do think that the fish clambering onto the lantern and disrupting motion, although a cool idea in theory, is executed not the best - I found a coin off to the sides with 5 fish on my lantern, and i just sat there holding the right arrow key for literally 30 seconds as my character slowly moved to the right at like 0.001mph lol.
Its an awesome entry overall, great work!
It’s the kind of game you start casually and end up playing longer than expected.😄
Great game, even with a little bit of meta-progression. The immersion effect of gradual darkening and music distortion is definitely cool. Thank you for the game!
I enjoyed playing this, I liked how the background music changes depending on depth and health. It feels very polished!
Great design. I thougt that the game is also about fishing sometimes, and all the fishes that stick to you is ok. but then i realised, that you must skip EVERY fish. Looks like a small gamedesign problem, but for the jam game its very good.
Fun game, good job on the music! Took me a minute to realize I wasn't supposed to collect the fish.
Cool idea and nice execution. Also nice music.