I kept trying to get into the ceiling but couldn't figure out what you were supposed to do and so had to cheat to see the ending. Apparently you were supposed to get into the ceiling so now I'm just confused.
Reached the ceiling! However, I was fustrated. The game is slow on my computer, probably due the fact that you are loaded and converting the PNG files each time something must be rendered; this is slow! The controls were also somewhat frustrating and I didn't know how to move property to an adjacent block. Moreover, sometimes I has "pucking out" a block, but the squid wasn't a a proper position, I lost the block without actually putting it anywhere, which made the game slower still. The theme is spot on.
summaky:, no the PNG files only get loaded and converted once. The slowness comes from somewhere else. I used cProfile and the runsnakerun tool to remove speed bottlenecks, but blitting surfaces with alpha without hardware acceleration of any kind is just going to be dog slow no matter what :)
Sorry about the frustrating controls. In retrospect, I wish I had restricted movement to 1-tile units instead of free movement.
The red guy is a red herring. I should have left him out. The goal is to follow the one-eyed ghosts. yes, I should have made that clear in the game, but I didn't :)
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The ending song was awesome! :-D
Sorry about the frustrating controls. In retrospect, I wish I had restricted movement to 1-tile units instead of free movement.
Thank you all for playing! :)
Lol :-)
Anyway, cool game. The movement of the squid was a bit glitchy, but I liked the idea.
You should have made a second ending in case the squid dug too deep too :-P
The gameplay is pretty much pointles... lol
But I dig the art and the overall idea.
I ended up eating about 89 chunks of sand.