I have been working with WebGL for about a year and wanted to try making a game. I went Keep-It-Simple-Stupid and did 2d, all on one screen. The game is inspired by the Atari 2600 game SeaQuest, except you are a dolphin!
You rescue sailors from sharks and return them to a boat. When you rescue 5, they can row away, and the next level starts. You run out of air, and have to come up to breathe or you'll die! It gets progressively harder, with more, faster sharks.
To meet the theme I gave the dolphin a special super power - The Sonic Scream - but you can use it only once per game, so you have to be strategic. It knocks out all the sharks, and they go belly-up, but it also refills your air, so you can use it for two types of last-ditch defence.
I added a few interesting bits of scenery for fun, and used a second framebuffer to add in some minimal screen-space special effects.
I hope that you enjoy playing it! I had a great weekend making it.
Please feel free to email me if you want to know more about getting into WebGL programming or OpenGL. I have some OpenGL tutorials on my website. http://antongerdelan.net/
Absolutely hilarious game! You should have named it "Dolphin Kidnap"! Why, oh, why do I have to snatch those perfectly safe divers and where are the ship survivors? :D
Great game, I've got a lot of fun and laugh of it!
I made it to level 4 before an avalanche of sharks got to me. I like it, and I like the use of shaders on the bottom (I'm assuming it is a fragment shader using time as input to move things around).
Prety funny, i realy enjoyed the drawing sound, when you "rescue" a sailor. It take me a long time to understand that air was limited, so i keep dying at first. Keep up the good work.
Nice concept and good effects. I got only to level 4, because I was to often at the border of the screen and couldn't react fast enough to the sharks. It would be nice if there were more than one sailor to rescue on screen, so you don't have to wait until they reach the safer center.
thanks everyone! @mortus in the spirit of 1980s games it need an inconsistent plot! @Kvisle the seaweed are actually little strips of about 8 triangles, and i animate them in the vertex shader with sin (time + height + x_position). there is a post processing fragment shader that waves the entire watery part of the screen though something like texture_coord.s = sin (s + time) and texture_coord.t = cos (t + time) @loxo yes that was incredibly evil putting the boat on the left side of the screen - i regret nothing! @somepx you only get one "sonic scream" which is like your get-out-of-jail-free super power
It is a very good game. It took me two tries until I understood the sonar scream, because I was pressing space accidentally ^^ You can see it in the Let's Play I made: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40LSR6JrPqw
I liked this entry a lot and believe it could be expanded. For mobiles this could be one. Different type of levels.. different boosters and all sort of things.
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Interesting effect with the algae at the bottom. Also loved the shaking effect when the ship reached the bottom.
Great game, I've got a lot of fun and laugh of it!
Good!
Well made entry.
The way the screen blacks out as I'm running out of air was a great cue and added some nice tension to the game as well.
There are some good ideas here, game is nice! Let me guess, "You Only Get One Dolphin" :D
Lulvy sounds.