The Danger Beneath by mihaivdev

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made by mihaivdev for LD29 (COMPO)
Hi all. Here's my entry for my first Ludum Dare.
Not really want I wanted to make but the idea changed a lot along the way and I ended up making something a lot simpler due to lack of time and nerves :)

It's a simple platformer like (without platforms :) ) and it's supposed to be simple and fun. Even if the difficulty is completely rubbish.

You are a man whose boat got stuck in the ice while travelling through the cold regions and since you couldn't stay on that boat forever (you would've run out of food) you decided to try and go find some help.
Your objective is to avoid the dangers beneath the surface and reach the end.

Controls:
A - move left
D - move right
W - jump

You have 3 lives after which you're presented with the Death Screen. Please check it out ;)

Moving left is very buggy and moving right might stop at random and I'm terribly sorry for that (weird Unity collision detection). I'd like to fix it but it's too late now.

Hope you like it.

Enjoy.

P.S.: Unity seems to have problems on Chrome, try to use Firefox or something else. I can't play most Unity games from LD in Chrome. Thanks.

Ratings

Coolness 53% 3
Overall 2.79 928
Audio 3.22 273
Fun 2.64 886
Graphics 2.44 1023
Humor 2.32 639
Innovation 1.81 1244
Mood 2.71 801
Theme 2.89 855

Feedback

EpiphanyG
28. Apr 2014 路 20:27 UTC
I absolutely adore the music. Love the game over screen too. Not enough games have a nice game over screen these days!

Gameplay could do with a little work, though.
Snoother
28. Apr 2014 路 20:31 UTC
Fun to play through. I especially liked the music.
馃帳 mihaivdev
28. Apr 2014 路 20:35 UTC
Thank you. The gameplay does indeed need work. The initial idea was to make a Lemmings like game where you'd have to guide your survivors through the arctic but because of some problems and time running out I had to resort to a simpler idea.
I've generated the music using www.abundant-music.com in case you'd like to use similar songs in your games.
ix
28. Apr 2014 路 21:40 UTC
The graphics, while simple, work harmoniously together. That jumping fish is pretty crazy looking, too!

Also, the death screen really is worth checking out.
conormn
28. Apr 2014 路 21:40 UTC
Great music and game over screen :)
Thingus
28. Apr 2014 路 21:41 UTC
Really loved the audio, and the fish just cracked me up.
Congratulations on finishing your first LD!
馃帳 mihaivdev
28. Apr 2014 路 22:03 UTC
Thank you all. There's an equally fun Win screen if you get to the end (10th checkpoint) :D
borrismoose
28. Apr 2014 路 22:12 UTC
Another shout out for the music, was nice to listen to. Thanks for sharing the site as well that could com in handy in the future. The character movement worked well it's just a shame about the stopping issue.
馃帳 mihaivdev
29. Apr 2014 路 08:06 UTC
Thanks. The stopping issue caused me problems for the start and made me try and make the game in HaxeFlixel instead, but then I was having difficulties with creating the map in HaxeFlixel and went back to Unity. I think I know how to fix it now and I might try and continue development thanks to the positive comments and will most likely be upgrading the GameJolt link.
BoaHeck_ArtGent
29. Apr 2014 路 21:08 UTC
I love the music and graphics. The player seemed to get caught on the ground sometimes, (something to do with the colliders maybe?) and once a checkpoint was on melted ice so when I re spawned it dropped me into the water.
jacobrb95
29. Apr 2014 路 22:13 UTC
I really like the music. Good graphics too!
ActionRemix
29. Apr 2014 路 22:18 UTC
I survived the deep!
馃帳 mihaivdev
30. Apr 2014 路 08:31 UTC
Congrats Action Remix :D!
And thanks all others for the comments.
Crooksister
30. Apr 2014 路 13:39 UTC
Needed more, quite plain but suited the aesthetic
mrbungle
01. May 2014 路 21:52 UTC
Once I got used the floatiness I made good progress. Occasionally I just seemed to randomly stop though, which broke up the flow.
javifugitivo
01. May 2014 路 21:53 UTC
A big fish kill me! Ouch! Great runner!
Kate Kligman
02. May 2014 路 03:42 UTC
Great job on the music! I liked the graphics too. The game is fun.
blockbot
02. May 2014 路 14:11 UTC
The character was a little floaty, but I can see you have something good brewing. Keep working on it, nice submission!
Rodaja
05. May 2014 路 11:34 UTC
I died once and revived over the water because I'd broken the ice where the checkpoint was.