How Low Can You Go? by DanCan

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made by DanCan for Ludum Dare 48 (JAM)

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See how deep you can dive.

Instructions

Use WASD or the arrow keys to swim. Try to avoid the marine life, it bites!

Click the left mouse button to fire your harpoon towards the cursor; a strong offence is the best defence!

Ratings

Overall 1496th 3.158⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Fun 1161th 3.184⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 1683th 2.579⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Theme 642th 3.842⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 1273th 3.333⭐ 20🧑‍⚖️
Humor 1382th 1.938⭐ 18🧑‍⚖️
Mood 1573th 2.889⭐ 20🧑‍⚖️
Given 27🗳️ 3🗨️

Feedback

phealsout
26. Apr 2021 · 22:10 UTC
About this long
phealsout
26. Apr 2021 · 22:12 UTC
Till now
phealsout
26. Apr 2021 · 22:12 UTC
Pretty nice game, like the visuals
rgb-games
26. Apr 2021 · 22:13 UTC
The game is quite fun. A little hard perhaps but that's just me :)
namrog84
26. Apr 2021 · 22:14 UTC
It was surprisingly more challenging to spear fish than I anticipated! I enjoyed it! I made it pretty deep before dying!
NateTheGreat
26. Apr 2021 · 22:19 UTC
Nice simple but fun game! The lighting is a nice subtle touch.
LukeTobin
26. Apr 2021 · 22:22 UTC
It was challenging to control your movement and with having limited time to capitalize on attacking the core gameplay became fun. I loved the leaderboard addition at the end, made me want to try again a few times.
Gomega
26. Apr 2021 · 22:29 UTC
Really great stuff! I was impressed by how fun the game was to play; the movement was spot-on.

The addition of the game getting darker as you get deeper was a well-needed touch to make the game more interesting and difficult. The leaderboard was a good touch to keep me playing for more than one round as well.

One thing I would add is some sort of feedback to let the player know that they are taking damage. For instance, I couldn't quite tell if the fish were close enough to hit me or not, or if the rocks did any damage at all.

Overall, I think you did a great job making a difficult, but fair challenge.
Robmcg
26. Apr 2021 · 23:06 UTC
Thanks for your feelback @gomega. I've pushed a small change to flash the player when you take damage.
Evil Villain Games
02. May 2021 · 06:12 UTC
Wow I really love what you did with the theme. The glowing fish and everything slowly getting darker was an awesome effect. The leader board was a great touch too.
DoctorTM
04. May 2021 · 01:32 UTC
It was more fun than expected! Great jam, love the graphics. Interesting mechanics.
LoreTV
05. May 2021 · 11:00 UTC
Cool game! At first I thought it will be very easy to shoot the fishes, but it's actually harder to hit them than I expected :D
tengusheath
06. May 2021 · 03:14 UTC
Starts to get hard once you get more fish chasing you
Mololo
17. May 2021 · 14:55 UTC
Great game, the graphics look good and the gameplay is very engaging and fun. The level of difficulty makes me want to try again and get a higher score, which is great.

I would have liked a bit of background music and maybe shooting sounds, but a great game nevertheless.

Good job.
bmacintosh
17. May 2021 · 15:56 UTC
Nice visual style. The art was pretty good, and I really liked the flashlight effect. Also a fun idea to have previous players appear in-game and not only on the leaderboard! For some reason I can't fully explain, it felt somewhat more difficult than it should have to harpoon big groups of fish. They tended to get bunched up easily but I could never get more than a few at once; I don't know if there was a limit?
Ntimi
17. May 2021 · 16:21 UTC
Great stuff! Your game is one of the few I played where you took the theme quite literally and made something interesting and challenging with it. :)

The spearfishing was not easy, but satisfying. There were some points in the game where I had nearly cleared the screen of fish, but then more (and bigger) fish came and made my life stressful again.
The gradual descent with rising darkness was a great style.

The only thing I was missing was any sound - the mood in your game was top notch, that would have brought it to perfect.