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It took me a bit to figure out how the gameplay loop works, but the theme is really well delivered. \n\nI love how hostile the submarine is down to the smallest details, like certain valves not letting you even see the pressure gauge while they're being turned, or the launch code displaying in an entirely different room to the launch button. It felt like an escape room designed for a team of four, but you're just one person.","format":"md","likes":4,"spam":"N"},{"id":1130211,"author_name":"basic_eagles","author_uid":"basic-eagles","epoch":1744116992,"text":"Liked the style, kinda familiar to the Iron Lung. But that image on the screen with a vignette ruins all the atmosphere. I recommend to remove this image and play with light to achieve that vignette. Also, I'll recommend to add some noise postfx at 2-4%, because In real life we also see some noise while being in dark room.","format":"md","likes":3,"spam":"N"},{"id":1130265,"author_name":"basic_eagles","author_uid":"basic-eagles","epoch":1744117367,"text":"This is how it looks with some noise\n\n![test111.png.jpg](\/\/\/raw\/838\/16\/z\/6b60e.jpg)","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":1132552,"author_name":"DennisPerSecond","author_uid":"dennispersecond","epoch":1744134102,"text":"This is peak 3D-Pixelart! Well done^^","format":"md","likes":3,"spam":"N"},{"id":1134969,"author_name":"Limina Wayfarer","author_uid":"limina-wayfarer","epoch":1744151730,"text":"Stellar work! Pleaseantly surprised of how polished the whole thing is. Well done!","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":1135067,"author_name":"EvilScotsman","author_uid":"evilscotsman","epoch":1744152825,"text":"Really good art and very suspenseful. Only problem I really had was that 80% of the game was staring at the red valves, I would have preferred something like pressing the valves once to reset them, although that would have thrown off the balance so probably not a great solution. Otherwise really good work!","format":"md","likes":3,"spam":"N"},{"id":1137529,"author_name":"LDJam user 410086","author_uid":"410086","epoch":1744195315,"text":"@evilscotsman I had so many other things I wanted to add (the screwdriver and wrench weren't just for decoration, initially!) but you know how Game Jams are the death of scope! \nConsidering a longer version, which would fix that for sure. \n","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1138615,"author_name":"NAKS","author_uid":"naks","epoch":1744210011,"text":"Really well done! You can immediately tell it was made by a team \u2013 the graphics are super pleasing","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":1138941,"author_name":"ten10gu","author_uid":"ten10gu","epoch":1744214088,"text":"I absolutely loved this! The narrative presentation, and reliance on mini-games to pass time in an isolated, claustrophobic space reminded me a lot of Presentable Liberty, which is a personal favorite. You genuinely had me gripped for the entire playtime, just because I wanted to see what happens next. I would LOVE to see this expanded upon, and given more room to shine as a narrative gem. Incredibly well executed!\n\nSome feedback:\n\n- The text-to-speech was a little hard to make out at times, and mispronounced a lot of stuff. Some kind of text log that pauses the game would be appreciated, if not a change of the voice.\n\n- If you make a larger version (which you stated above as a possibility), then I'd love to see you add a larger cast of characters. Your characterization is incredibly fun, and is definitely the main draw.","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":1140621,"author_name":"Neon Kuroasa","author_uid":"neon-kuroasa","epoch":1744234793,"text":"Dayum.\n\nJust dayum.\n\nIf I wasn't thalassophobic I would have nothing but high praise for this.\n\nGraphics are crazy good, i'm a sucker for intra-digetic UI, everything falls in place neatly. The gameplay does put an immense amount of pressure on you. The only thing I was not able to interact with was the weapon system, I still have to understand how it works.\n\nThe story is super interesting, I fear i wasn't in the best place to take it all in, but this really feels like a fully fleshed out horror game rather than a weekend project.\n\nCould very well be my personal favorite this ludum dare.","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":1142357,"author_name":"LDJam user 410086","author_uid":"410086","epoch":1744277545,"text":"@neon-kuroasa I checked out your channel after I read this, was thrilled to find the livestream! My French is nonexistent sadly, but the vibes were immaculate - when you reached the ended and just switched to English for \"What the fuck.... I don't want to fucking play this game anymore\" creased me up. Thank you for playing and for your kind words! Will let you know if we get our plans for a longer version off the ground ;) ","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":1142375,"author_name":"Sarah Upton","author_uid":"sarah-upton","epoch":1744278066,"text":"graphics are insane! good job\n","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":1142383,"author_name":"Nicso","author_uid":"nicso","epoch":1744278173,"text":"It took me way to long to understand that what i had to do with the valves \ud83d\ude02\n\nReally cool game and awesome artistic direction overall (sound and graphics)\n\nWell done !","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":1145811,"author_name":"CrozzY","author_uid":"crozzy","epoch":1744387682,"text":"Pretty interesting game, really liked the graphics, way to go) Interesting story, great work was done in those 3 days)","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":1145839,"author_name":"floppynub","author_uid":"floppynub","epoch":1744388581,"text":"Cool game, a bit tricky to figure out what to do but in a good way.  It's not tricky because you don't communicate it anywhere, it's tricky because I had to pay attention to my ship and figure how it works, which was good fun!  Looked great, impressively consistent art style, and it ran great too.  Good work on this, fantastic entry!  ","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":1145939,"author_name":"DrSmey","author_uid":"drsmey","epoch":1744391493,"text":"This is insanely well-made for just a game jam. It's very stressful, but the art and atmosphere is just phenomenal. There is very little negative that I can find about this, besides it maybe being a little hard.","format":"md","likes":3,"spam":"N"},{"id":1146636,"author_name":"LDJam user 248799","author_uid":"248799","epoch":1744410863,"text":"Wow well done! The environment is really polished and the submarine ambiance is great! At first I didn't understand with what I could interact (maybe an improvement will be to add some highlight at hover), but after one game over I was ready to go deeper and deeper! I'm wondering if there is an alternate ending if I shoot the thing at the end instead of drilling. I've loved the human touch of receiving some coworker messages.\n\nGreat game, well done!","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":1152493,"author_name":"cherrybcake","author_uid":"cherrybcake","epoch":1744754999,"text":"Absolutely amazing, I have no words. The mood, graphics, details, level design, I love it! This kind of game inspires me. Good job! .-- . .-.. .-.. \/ -.. --- -. .","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":1153381,"author_name":"mars88","author_uid":"mars88","epoch":1744859611,"text":"Can't believe this was done in 3 days, very amazing work. 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