Turtles All The Way Down by VerttiXPertti
Turtles All The Way Down is a surrealistic rage platformer, where you play as Turt Le Turtle and try to discover the depths of the ocean.
Controls: M1 to launch yourself.
Turt has two dashes that reset by colliding with the platforms.
Normal platform: Safest in the game.
Fish: Sideways movement, you can ride them.
Propeller: Collision on all sides, can be climbed easily.
Naval mine: Explodes and launches you when landed on, still grants you your 2 dashes back.
Coding: Vertti
Music, sound design and director of photography: Julle
Concept: Vertti, Julle and Mansku
Drawing: Mansku

| Link | https://verttixpertti.itch.io/turtles-all-the-way-down |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/57/turtles-all-the-way-down |
Ratings
| Overall | 585th | 3.341⭐ | 46🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 390th | 3.443⭐ | 46🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 562th | 3.068⭐ | 46🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 584th | 3.42⭐ | 46🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 737th | 2.795⭐ | 46🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 497th | 2.93⭐ | 45🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 245th | 3.317⭐ | 43🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 651th | 3.195⭐ | 43🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 47🗳️ | 68🗨️ |
I agree that sometimes the board generation can be out of reach.
Only complaint is I'll second that the a few times the random generation felt like I was put in impossible scenarios. Also the music jump scared me the first time which is kind of funny.
It's fun though! Definitely had the one more run feel.
As others stated leaderboard was a good addition!
I really like the audio when you loose, it right enough whimsical and sad "oh you lost". Really helped me to try out more.
Well done, a solid simple entry with good execution, great job! <3
One way to improve this game would be to add a simple "swimming" animation to the turtle. Even separating the flippers from the shell, and adding a simple up/down animation would go a long way to making the game feel more polished.
Controls feel consistent, which is important for this genre. Leaderboard is a nice touch. Good job!
That's a really fun game! Reverse doodle jump is a nice touch on the theme. Didn't read any tutorials and it's really good that your game could be understood without reading pretty much!
Also found a bug, really big, took a third of a screen, really cool :DDD
I really enjoyed the suprises but couldnt get to much further to see what might be ahead. The cockroaches were great, never thought I would say it but there it is :D
I liked the movement since it felt like one was used mostly to get towards a platform and the second to stabilize the turtle to prevent sliding. Sometimes it was a bit unclear if you had gotten your dashes back or not (sometimes I didn't quite make it to a platform and got my dashes back and sometimes didn't) so adding some sort of an indicator would've been nice (maybe a simple sound effect?) The leaderboard was a cool addition but I didn't realize it was global until I saw the other comments (I may have to come back to this after playing some other submissions :D)
Well done!
~Xp