Into the abyss by squirrelsoft

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made by squirrelsoft for Ludum Dare 48 (JAM)

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Explore the depth, to find the legendary wreck of the Capsule ship of the no less legendary captain P. Holder (he never liked jokes about his name. But beware evil subs abound, don't get caught or face defeat.

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Game made using :

Unity 2021 1.3f1 (Universal render pipeline/Shader graph)

Blender

Gimp

Inkskape

SketchUp Make

Ableton

some sound effects come from freesound.org and lasonotheque.org

Ratings

Given 25🗳️ 1🗨️

Feedback

oc1d
27. Apr 2021 · 09:42 UTC
Thank you! I had big issues in the beginning to orientate my ship, I think it was due to the usage of W and S for up and down.. maybe try different keys? I used echolocation in the beginning often and then failed for some reason that was not clear to me. The second try was better since I learned the controls but then echolocation did not seem to work anymore and the experience overall was mostly dark and then I failed again. The third try I had no issues with the controls but I think the starting camera angle/position and direction are not helping to learn the controls. I got pulled away in my third run all of a sudden, the missio failed (saw mission failed screen) and I did not understand why.
angry-cyboot
28. Apr 2021 · 19:16 UTC
Yeah ... we didn't take the time to do proper testing and balancing, but a post jam version is in the works.

Being pulled away is a consequence of your sanity bar falling too low, and you may not have seen it but if you failed it was because of your sub coming too close of an enemy. And yes we know that it's not obvious in the game ...
Jack B Music
09. May 2021 · 17:52 UTC
This is really quite good. My main issue is that once you got too low, it got way too dark. I did eventually find the wreckage, but it took a lot of swimming around aimlessly. The music and the atmosphere were fantastic though, I really enjoyed those aspects. I'm not too sure what the bar on the right of the screen did, or what the negatives to using the echolocation were, but I enjoyed the idea of it. Overall, very nicely done.
lilkrit
13. May 2021 · 21:02 UTC
The enemies are damn creepy. GJ.
Knatt
13. May 2021 · 21:11 UTC
I enjoyed maneuvering the ship and the music was wonderful. The only trouble I have is the clarity of where I was going and what I was doing. I echo located and the green arrow was hard to read when it got really dark. Good work.
Arefnue
17. May 2021 · 18:08 UTC
Cool game!
DoctaDragon
17. May 2021 · 18:30 UTC
I don't know if that was the objective, but it was incredibly spooky to traverse the sea while your screen gradually darkened, something that I enjoyed a lot since horror games are my jam.
angry-cyboot
18. May 2021 · 01:22 UTC
We completely intended to make it opressing and creepy, though the darkening effect of depth was a bit to much in the original entry so we toned it down in the postjam version, as for the ennemies, they become creepy with the post-jam fixes as their AIs now work as it was intended.
Adnonymous5
18. May 2021 · 04:03 UTC
Very awesome atmosphere created in this game!
aurel
18. May 2021 · 06:46 UTC
The atmosphere was very cool - but I didn't really understand what the enemies were. On my second play through I figured out the controls better, but I was "discovered" which I wasn't sure exactly what that meant. I just figured out that you can "gain" air by rising to the surface again, but I'm not sure what that does for me.

The darkening effect was very cool, but... it was nearly impossible to see anything down there. I really like the idea of the insanity meter... but I wasn't sure if there's any way to regain sanity.

Either way, the idea of piloting a submarine is super cool. Gonna go in for a 3rd attempt now.
angry-cyboot
18. May 2021 · 14:54 UTC
To recover your sanity there are patches of "reassuring" algae to rest in, but we know they are hard to notice in the jam version