Dark waters by antoined73

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made by antoined73 for Ludum Dare 48 (JAM)

It's a fish-eat-fish world! In this simple relaxing game, your goal is to eat other fishes, avoid being eaten, and dive deeper to discover what other weird fishes lurk in the depths below...

There's no defined end or goal, so feel free to bail once you've seen the sights and sounds and hopefully had a good time playing.

Controls:

  • Move using the mouse

  • Left-click to go faster

  • Mouse scroll to go up or down one level

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This game is loosely based on the 2006 flash game flOw https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow(videogame).

Ratings

Overall 501th 3.773⭐ 24🧑‍⚖️
Fun 924th 3.341⭐ 24🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 1036th 3.114⭐ 24🧑‍⚖️
Theme 169th 4.205⭐ 24🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 1000th 3.614⭐ 24🧑‍⚖️
Mood 180th 4.159⭐ 24🧑‍⚖️
Given 14🗳️ 22🗨️

Feedback

Simpathey
27. Apr 2021 · 02:09 UTC
Loved the atmosphere! Would love to become even more of a big chungus fishie :D
Massillon Magic
27. Apr 2021 · 09:42 UTC
Loved it such a great experience :thumbsup:
Elektroney
27. Apr 2021 · 09:45 UTC
Water
Carsten
27. Apr 2021 · 09:46 UTC
I really like the relaxing music and nature of the game.
A bit of feedback:
- There should be a clear indicator of when you get or lose segments. Like a note playing that matches the music.
- It's hard to see what "layer" you are on. Especially when you dice multiple layers at once.
Craplex
27. Apr 2021 · 09:52 UTC
Great art style, game crashed couple of times when i pressed E. Thank you. Great Job/
Heremeus
27. Apr 2021 · 09:58 UTC
Great atmosphere :thumbsup:
LDJam user 237261
27. Apr 2021 · 09:59 UTC
Nice aesthetic, I liked the depth, could be a little more difficult or at least more varied, but it's a nice game overall.
Washington Irving
27. Apr 2021 · 10:00 UTC
very calming. there seems to be a limit to how chunkey you can become... i found this out by becoming it.
would be neat to play this as a multiplayer game, i love the diving mechanic.

if i had to point out one problem, its that it can be hard to distinguish which level each fish is on, especially if you dont eat the fish above you. maybe the levels above and below could be blurred or made more transparent?

great stuff.
Tudypie
27. Apr 2021 · 10:00 UTC
Really nice game. I really love the music and the atmosphere. I really enjoyed playing it :) Great job :)
ditam
27. Apr 2021 · 10:01 UTC
The game does not seem to work properly for me :( Movement seems to work at a glance, I can even boost, but no matter if I rise or dive, I never encounter anything, there's no depth counter like on your screenshot, and the background color does not change (so I don't think I'm actually gaining depth).

The browser console has some logs that sound like errors, "ERROR: Shader", and various "shader is not supported on this GPU (none of subshaders/fallbacks are suitable)" messages. I'm playing on a Chrome browser with an Intel Iris® Xe GPU.
fizzbark
27. Apr 2021 · 10:02 UTC
Nice game, such a chill good experience. Lost track of time playing it
fizzbark
27. Apr 2021 · 10:02 UTC
Nice game, such a chill good experience. Lost track of time playing it
fizzbark
27. Apr 2021 · 10:02 UTC
Nice game, such a chill good experience. Lost track of time playing it
Tankou
27. Apr 2021 · 10:09 UTC
A fun game, I enjoyed playing it and really like the meditative music in the background.
I also go with the points of Carsten concerning indicators of losing segments.
But all in all, you did a good job here.
Eugenik
27. Apr 2021 · 17:16 UTC
Movement was very clunky. Otherwise good job.
jtn191
27. Apr 2021 · 17:26 UTC
my game crashes/freezes while mouse wheel diving
Pierre CILLUFFO
27. Apr 2021 · 20:28 UTC
Very relazing :)
FlashViper
28. Apr 2021 · 02:02 UTC
Really unique concept! I really liked the concept of scrolling to dive. This would make a nice, relaxing mobile game!
darkshadow
28. Apr 2021 · 16:54 UTC
I was moving downwards for about 5 minutes before I was wondering where all the fish were. Doh mouse wheel, which turns out to be inverted on my computer!

Very nice colours and very chilled out
Martinek
29. Apr 2021 · 17:24 UTC
Amazing game, I like these kind of games. This wan was fantastic. I only wish I had some limitations when can I go deeper.