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Salmon Run! by werdnalt

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made by werdnalt for Ludum Dare 51 (JAM)

The life of a salmon is tough - especially when it only lasts 10 seconds! Swim upstream through a variety of hazards while laying eggs along the way to ensure the next generation can take your place and finish where you left off.

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Made for Ludum Dare Jam 51!

Programming - Daniel Leclair

Programming - Joe Flint

Music + Sound Design - Brian Kalb

Art - Andrew Leclair

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Change Log: fixed placement of wall hitboxes

Link https://werdnalt.itch.io/salmon-run
Original URL https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/51/salmon-run

Ratings

Overall 418th 3.667⭐ 29🧑‍⚖️
Fun 413th 3.574⭐ 29🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 676th 3.212⭐ 28🧑‍⚖️
Theme 584th 3.648⭐ 29🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 492th 3.759⭐ 29🧑‍⚖️
Audio 368th 3.5⭐ 28🧑‍⚖️
Humor 444th 3.087⭐ 25🧑‍⚖️
Mood 474th 3.563⭐ 26🧑‍⚖️
Given 15🗳️ 22🗨️

Feedback

LDJam user 257810
04. Oct 2022 · 03:18 UTC
Zooming with the flies is fun, nice work! Also love homemade feeling of the artwork.
Ninnec
04. Oct 2022 · 03:19 UTC
The art is really nice and the movement handles really well
Cope
04. Oct 2022 · 03:19 UTC
Excellent take on the theme. I enjoyed the art and the music very much. Well done!
NotALobster
04. Oct 2022 · 03:19 UTC
I love the art! Cool idea for the theme too.
Lepletier
04. Oct 2022 · 03:20 UTC
Nice entry! Beautyfull art!
Neek-v2
04. Oct 2022 · 03:20 UTC
WOW I was really impressed with this game! The jump roll has a great momentum to it and I thought there was a lot of variety in terms of the obstacles. You struck a great balance with the difficulty and the music and art were on point!
Paul Avallone
04. Oct 2022 · 03:20 UTC
Really funny use of theme. I love the music and the art. Some of the collisions are a little hard to tell but other than that I have no problems. I really enjoyed the game. Great job!
GERD
04. Oct 2022 · 03:22 UTC
Totally beautiful!
hammerfrenzy
04. Oct 2022 · 03:22 UTC
Made it! Really enjoyed the spin jump in particular, and the sounds & music are pleasant. Keeping momentum from flies/whirlpools through jumps was also fun. Good work!

![salmon run.png](///raw/563/14/z/51cd7.png)
vgel
04. Oct 2022 · 03:32 UTC
Took me 15 minutes but I finally beat it :-) really hard in places and took me a bunch of tries: being a salmon is truly the dark souls of fish, i guess

i really liked the jumping animation specifically. it was really satisfying for some reason.
pouiee
04. Oct 2022 · 03:32 UTC
Very fun game, I couldn't get past the large waterfall but loved the theme and I really felt like a salmon.
Eugenik
04. Oct 2022 · 12:29 UTC
This was really atmospheric and well put together
chrissx2
04. Oct 2022 · 12:35 UTC
Cute and energetic game. Good job :)
Rawb
04. Oct 2022 · 21:18 UTC
Super fun game and an awesome style. Nice introduction of new mechanics to seamlessly progress in difficulty
infinitycore
05. Oct 2022 · 09:07 UTC
This ain't Splatoon?!

Very fun, a bit frustrating at the end.
saikai
05. Oct 2022 · 09:35 UTC
Nice feeling game but a bit frustrating because it is hard to see where your salmon actually is. (And curse the waterfalls... :))
Buster
06. Oct 2022 · 01:38 UTC
https://youtu.be/8ykoR-McgzE

Great game! I made a video for it here. Cheers!
Earlybard
06. Oct 2022 · 10:59 UTC
Great fun and loved the mood. Good work!
NeneChico
06. Oct 2022 · 23:35 UTC
nice difficulty challenge and original theme, thanks for the contribution :)
Majadroid
07. Oct 2022 · 07:46 UTC
Maybe a bit to hard for me. But I love the art style the overall design of your game.
Kitkii
10. Oct 2022 · 20:07 UTC
Really cute game. Struggled in that last part but managed to get it. Loved the artstyle and how the game felt overall. I can't really find a critique that you could improve upon. The gameplay with having checkpoint and the flies increasing speed and with the difficulty of the game was all solid and results in a polished game.
Paulsams
11. Oct 2022 · 20:43 UTC
Very cute graphics and animation are just a buzz! I especially liked that when you take a checkpoint, the timer resets, otherwise it would have been very annoying, and so only positive emotions remained. Although of course the penultimate obstacle was just dramatically more difficult than the previous ones, but it didn't really prevent I from getting satisfaction from your game. Thanks).