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Under the River by Catmoo

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made by Catmoo for LD29 (COMPO)
Wouldn't you like to live like a fish?

Eating, mating and staying out of danger?

Well now you can in Under the River!

Try to survive as a little fishy and see how long you can last!

You can play with the mouse, W, A, S, D or the arrow keys.



Made with Game Maker Studio, I hope you enjoy! The intention was to have more variety but time stopped that from happening, along with being unable to fix a couple of bugs.

The audio seems very slow/non-existent on the html5 version, so I'll see if I can get a hotfix done for that, along with trying to see why there seems to be a few second hang when dying.
Web http://catmoo.co.uk/ld29/undertheriver/
Windows exe http://catmoo.co.uk/ld29/LD29_Under_the_River_by_Catherine_Woolley.exe
Windows installer http://catmoo.co.uk/ld29/LD29_Under_the_River_by_Catherine_Woolley-installer.exe
Source http://catmoo.co.uk/ld29/LD29_Under_the_River_by_Catherine_Woolley-source.zip
Original URL https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-29/?action=preview&uid=1396

Ratings

Coolness 39% 1718
Overall 3.21 517
Audio 2.88 484
Fun 3.00 558
Graphics 3.25 496
Humor 3.15 193
Innovation 2.79 757
Mood 3.19 374
Theme 3.83 116

Feedback

superzac
28. Apr 2014 · 04:26 UTC
I like the variety of fish and things they do. Also, I like the underwater sound effect, it really conveys the underwater feeling. Control scheme feels like it could have been fleshed out a bit better. Also, I laughed when the fish said "Aaaah!"
Hypnohustla
28. Apr 2014 · 07:59 UTC
Nice little arcade game. Audio world was a real highlight. I really wish there were more variety. :)
cptalbertwesker
28. Apr 2014 · 12:08 UTC
Love it! I like how when you die the fish floats up to the surface, and how fish swim vertically.. and how vocal the fish is.

Also really like your very simple instructions, but I didn't realise at first that I could mate with the yellow fish.

Awesome game!
DesignerNap
28. Apr 2014 · 20:37 UTC
I really enjoyed this! I played several times before realising I could make babies with the yellow fish! I thought all bigger fish would kill me. then I bumped into one of them and made LOADS of babies! I got much better at it by using BOTH mouse and keys... extra speed! :D final score, 40 days, 72 babies, 1534 grammes of food and 14 scrapes with death :D
DaanVanYperen
28. Apr 2014 · 21:23 UTC
Hilarious. XD Very nice.
Linus Lindberg
28. Apr 2014 · 21:50 UTC
Cool game! Lovely graphics! :)
Lucio
29. Apr 2014 · 12:07 UTC
I love being a fish! :)
vilya
30. Apr 2014 · 20:18 UTC
I think there's a bug: my first go I only ate one piece of food, but the score at the end said I'd consumed around 45000g. I like the concept and the controls are nice & straightforward, but I think it could do with a tutorial.
Dreii
01. May 2014 · 04:21 UTC
Lol! that death sound :) Nice graphics and funny gameplay!
🎤 Catmoo
01. May 2014 · 20:40 UTC
@Vilya Yeah I know about that bug, hoping to get some time on the weekend to look at it, not got a huge amount of time during the week atm to fix it. But yeah I usually give more of a tutorial and was planning to but ran really close on time and finished a couple of minutes before the deadline, so my vague instructions had to do :)
Zerkruemler
05. May 2014 · 18:06 UTC
Yeah I ate 301821 grams of food. A very hungry fish.
First I did not know which fish are good/bad, but trial and error revealed it. Nice implementation and funny swim directions possible. Slightliy different than mainstream.
Good work
camlang
05. May 2014 · 18:22 UTC
Great litle game. Funny sound effects:)
csanyk
05. May 2014 · 22:29 UTC
Not as good as the title screen led me to believe :) There were a few bugs:

- Food score kept increasing on the end screen after I died.
- Enemy fish movement looked glitchy and unnatural at times.

The underwater sounds were good.
dylanwolf
06. May 2014 · 15:46 UTC
Nice take on the theme. It reminds me a bit of the Apple II game Odell Lake, at least in concept. It took some time to realize the yellow fish wouldn't eat me.
Adrian
14. May 2014 · 21:45 UTC
Nice little game!