Cleaning Diver by JaviCoder

Cleaning Diver is a relaxing mini game about going underwater deeper and deeper in order to find and recollect toxic waste.
Objective
The goal is to find 10 toxic barrels, placed across the bottom of the ocean. You can use your flashlight to search for them more easily. Also, if you see a greenish trail, there is probably a barrel nearby.
How to play
- Your character dives down slowly.
- You can move to certain direction using Left Mouse Button.
- You can switch on your flashlight holding Right Mouse Button.
- You can recover a barrel by holding down a few seconds the left mouse button on top of it. (if it turns out green, is going ok)
Ratings
| Overall | 304th | 3.625⭐ | 42🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 643th | 3⭐ | 44🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 544th | 3.05⭐ | 42🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 232th | 3.915⭐ | 43🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 40th | 4.305⭐ | 43🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 16th | 4.183⭐ | 43🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 522th | 2.242⭐ | 35🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 45th | 4.134⭐ | 43🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 91🗳️ | 61🗨️ |
It would be great to see the green trail of toxic waste to vanish after you collect the barrel, though - both as an achievement and distinguish clearly whether there are more barrels to collect or not.
Wow - just wow... loved the aestetics of this :thumbsup_tone1: simple, relaxing and polished :smile:
I hope you'll drop by mine and give it a spin :wink:
:purple_heart: :dart: :frog:
The music is calming, gorgeous and fits perfectly. Nice game overall and nice meaning behind it too. I enjoyed it very much.
!> knowing there's a submarine leaking oil in the middle of this reef
makes it hard to empathize with the final message that these waters are now clean :)
Your son, Pol, is a very talented composer at that age! Although I'm not going to share this game with 5 friends, but only because I *want* your dog to come after me 😉
Great job and beautiful entry. I look forward to seeing your submissions for future LD jams!
Awesome, awesome compo entry!

I fell in love with the menu screen! So beautiful! Simple but addictive idea. Very relaxing. Great job!
I stopped after the 6th barrel, after that it was a bit too repetitive to make me want to continue. A bit more diversity in the environment would be nice. The controls felt a bit unresponsive at times too. I think it's because I clicked on rocks without realizing. It would probably feel better if I could click anywhere, just to give the direction even if I end up colliding with something.
Except those few details, great entry!
I really adore your lights. I loved the flashlight light so much that I used up the charge waaaaaay before I found all the barrels. Just switching it on and off, on and off :laughing: The fact that you can see the seems of the background texture and the sharp edges of the "edge-of-an-area rocks", on the other hand, is not so nice. It takes away from the experience and exploration.

Music is very nice and builds exactly the meditative, relaxing atmosphere that I think you were going for. Controls felt fine and the slow speed our the diver was just right for the atmosphere.
Overall it is an EXTREMELY impressive piece of solo work.
The title screen visual, and the surface look great. The swimmer looks good, the lighting effects are cool. The style is awesome, and was **almost** **perfect**. As mentioned by another comment, there are seams in the textures, the sharp edges on the rocks, and they are quite jarring to see next to what is otherwise a very nice looking game.
Clicking to swim is okay, it gets the job done, but I feel like just holding the button should allow us to swim in the mouse's direction. Then when I find a barrel, instead of holding LMB, just clicking it should clean it up. I think that would have made the mostly pleasant experience, even more pleasant :slight_smile:
The music is perfect for the mood. The zoom-in when cleaning a barrel is a nice touch. I almost quit when I had 1 barrel left to find and had no idea where to look. Turns out I missed one near the surface and was lucky to find it after a little more exploring. Was the flashlight part of a hint system? because I didn't notice.
Overall a good game and entry!
Good job!
As has already been mentioned, it would be nice for the swimming controls to respond even when you click on a rock, so you can swim in that direction without having to position the mouse over an empty space, and it would also be nice to keep swimming without so much clicking required.
A very relaxing and very beautiful experience. Well done!