Neptune's Whispers by JortvD
In Neptune's Whisper you, a lively submarineman, are tasked with finding and freeing the queen of the sea. If you don't you will have to face Neptune's wrath! You will have to be careful throughout your journeys deeper and deeper to the bottom of the ocean. Keeping track of your oxygen is advised, as picking up items as well as taking damage decreases your supply. If you run out of oxygen... Well, I hope that is obvious. Good luck seamen and seawomen!

Controls:
Use W, A, S and D to move your submarine around.
When close to the "house" use E to stash your inventory and to upgrade your submarine.
Fire your weapons using LMB or SPACE.
Hint: when aiming with your mouse, try keeping the cursor close to the edges of the screen. This way you have more precision when controlling your weapons. We also found that browsers as Firefox sometimes have issues with the inbuilt mouse tracking for Phaser. Using Chrome is recommended.
Another hint: submarines cannot hit enemies from all angles. Try to lure them towards an angle were you can hit them.
All artwork was made in house for this LD jam. We hope you liked the game and if so we would like to hear your feedback. This was our first time using Phaser, so there probably a good amount of bugs (and we know of some of them). If you find any please report them to us, and we'll try to fix them!
In our experience using a desktop computer and running Chrome is the most stable way to play our game.
Changelog:
27-4 14:40 - Changed some settings to make the game a bit easier.
29-4 14:30 - Changed the submarines to make them a little bit faster.
| Using other browsers than chrome can imact performance/stability | https://neptunes-whispers.web.app/ |
| Link | https://github.com/UniBoys/ld48 |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/48/neptunes-whispers |
Ratings
| Overall | 1101th | 3.421⭐ | 21🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 1307th | 3.079⭐ | 21🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 1082th | 3.083⭐ | 20🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 238th | 4.132⭐ | 21🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 619th | 3.921⭐ | 21🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 730th | 3.417⭐ | 20🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 1026th | 3.421⭐ | 21🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 18🗳️ | 9🗨️ |
I did like the exploration and upgrading though.
The aiming cones could be a bit clearer, plus the cannons aiming would freak out and spin to opposite direction(upward) occasionally. This wasn't an issue with the harpoons.
Pretty cool game
A cute, simple yet fun game.
My feedback:
- Insanely great cover of the song
- Pleasing, well-fitting art and aesthetics
- Simple, yet fun gameplay
Although I agree that controlling the submarine can be a bit frustrating at times, it gives Neptune a heavy feel. I assume that this is what you were going for in the first place.
All in all, great job, fun game! :shark: :octopus:
- It took like 2/3 minutes to load (Maybe that was just me)
- After my first death Some wood resources were displayed again but the attack did nothing to it, so that was a little confusing.
Overall fun experience though! :D
I have a bug when I upgrade the submarine. The spears do not trigger the wood anymore...
Otherwise the graphics is cool!
Thank you