Use arrow keys to move your ship around. Deploy the diver with spacebar. Only the diver can collect treasure or disarm mines, but he can't travel far from the ship. If he spends too much time in the water, the sharks will get him.
The big feature is probably the level editor ;) Your level will be saved, but you can only have one "user level", like the old NES carts.
Feel free to share your levels in the comments!
Here's one to get you started: 1511111111 1011140011 1011101101 1011101101 1011101101 1011101101 1011100011 1011112111 1000000111 1111111111
This is a true "from scratch" game. No libraries or base projects. I was able to devote just under 12 hours to this game. It is playable, but incomplete. I really wanted time to do sounds and music this go, but real life intruded again.
I didn't plan on making any graphics, so I'm fine with the squares. I do miss the sound and music though.
I like the concept and have some ideas for some neat animations, so I'll probably extend this game in the future.
Wow, really awesome idea! You might think I'm crazy but I thought the graphics for this were almost perfect. A little sparkle might not hurt, but I loved the simplicity.
I think if you made a decent chunk of levels and added in maybe one or two more hazards/mechanics, this could be really great. Keep it up!
nice idea for a cool puzzle game. But at this stage, we only have to go near a treasure and at one case of shark. Maybe forbid to recover the diver directly can be solve this?
Not bad for a little puzzle game! It could've used a bit more polish visually, but I liked the tradeoffs in the mechanics - using your diver to clear mines, deploying your diver to draw sharks away from treasure, etc.
Decent turn-based puzzle game. It was not very obvious that the diver could disable the mines, but I figured it out eventually. At first I didn't want to risk the miner touching them. Doesn't feel finished yet, but with some further development it could show promise. I'd replace the squares with some pixel art icons that reinforce the meaning of the color, and add sounds, and more levels.
@csanyk Good advice! I want to tweak the behavior of the diver: it should take more than one turn to defuse mines or collect treasure, so that there's more danger of the sharks showing up.
As it stands, I think some challenging levels could be made, so the base mechanics are there.
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I think if you made a decent chunk of levels and added in maybe one or two more hazards/mechanics, this could be really great. Keep it up!
But at this stage, we only have to go near a treasure and at one case of shark. Maybe forbid to recover the diver directly can be solve this?
As it stands, I think some challenging levels could be made, so the base mechanics are there.
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Also, here's a simple little spreadsheet I made to make it slightly easier to edit a level: https://db.tt/UV5Ar10J