Kraken Pool Party by wilbefast

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made by wilbefast for LD29 (JAM)
You are the Kraken.

All 4 of you.

Each player controls a tentacle. Use your tentacle to do tentacle-y things. Cooperate to destroy as many ships and blimps as possible... or don't. May the best tentacle win.

IT'S - PARTY - TIME !

= CONTROLS =
You'll need gamepads to play I'm afraid. Not sure a keyboard version even really makes sense but we'll give it a shot in post-compo if we have time...
* A button to grab
* Left stick to move

= CREDITS =
Our companies (NaturalPad and Aiko) jammed together this time around: we had 3 projects and a lot of people helping out at various times over the weekend on each of them.

Ratings

Coolness 45% 1547
Overall(Jam) 3.44 224
Audio(Jam) 3.06 375
Fun(Jam) 3.53 98
Graphics(Jam) 4.24 81
Innovation(Jam) 3.76 74
Mood(Jam) 3.33 250
Theme(Jam) 3.50 198

Feedback

illugion
29. Apr 2014 路 00:35 UTC
Whoa those ships are heavy ! I love that someone made a 4-player game, that's really nice ! Is there an easier way to throw ships around ?
馃帳 wilbefast
29. Apr 2014 路 00:37 UTC
It comes with practice ;) could have done with a bit more iteration time to get the feel just right, but that's the LD right?
JALgames
29. Apr 2014 路 13:04 UTC
4 players and gamepads?! Most of the people participating are in the compo, so they are solo and few of them have 3 friends to call just to play one game. But the graphics look very promising!
TijmenTio
29. Apr 2014 路 14:03 UTC
I'm gonna play this later with my friends! LOVE local multiplayer :D
vexille
29. Apr 2014 路 16:53 UTC
Very cool! I just wish you could move the tentacles faster. Also that it had more stuff coming in for you to destroy (or at least that they were faster), you end up spending a lot of time waiting for stuff to come in reach.
ArcturusDeluxe
29. Apr 2014 路 21:53 UTC
Wish I could play this with 3 other people, seems like it would be really fun. I like the idea though. Reminds me a bit of Octodad.
Korwegian
30. Apr 2014 路 21:29 UTC
RELEASE THE MEEEEEE!!!
xdegtyarev
02. May 2014 路 19:00 UTC
Great entry, nice art style!
PaperBlurt
03. May 2014 路 09:45 UTC
Best pool party ever!
The graphics are one of the best I've seen so far in this LD.
TeamFlare
19. May 2014 路 20:01 UTC
haha very funny game!
dector
19. May 2014 路 22:26 UTC
Very nice art. Gaming process is quite interesting but little bit slow.
Crefossus
19. May 2014 路 22:35 UTC
A little tough to judge with only only player. I love the art style. Smashing objects felt satisfying.
Crefossus
19. May 2014 路 22:37 UTC
*only one player :D. I love the animated eyes.
PixelFeet
19. May 2014 路 22:47 UTC
Only had one player, so I'm not sure I can accurately judge it. That said, it was pretty cool and it was really satisfying to smash things, probably in no small part to the music and sound effects. Good job!
TheZiggy
20. May 2014 路 00:34 UTC
Quite unfortunate that you need 4 people and controllers. It looked good though :)
TheSheep
20. May 2014 路 09:24 UTC
Actually Boulder Dash, not Dig Dug :)