In "Reach the Surface" your mission is to guide a mole through the ground with sound waves. By simply clicking behind him, he will recognice the sound and change his direction. Avoid obstacles and eat worms to increase your score!
This is the first time i am participating at LD. As you can see i am not an artist and no sound designer. Textures made with GIMP. Sound made with sfxr and music made with Retro Band.
I expected the sound waves to be used to detect things not to control the character. Seems to be some graphic bug where lines of dark brown appear. Didn't really like the controls they could use some work to be more natural.
good effort man. reminds me of something i did for my first one using sonar to guide the player.. i found it quite hard tho.. and abit frustrating to use the keyboard to select menus then use the mouse to play etc.. still good going tho :)
I really like the concept of non-standard controls. It gives me that feeling of playing something completely new and original.
The size of obstacles could be just a bit smaller. It would have been nice to know how close am I to the surface. Also direction change could be more gradual instead of instant. Well done for first LD :)
Menu navigation by keyboard then game controls by mouse is a bit weird.
The screen area where you can click isn't too well defined. When clicking "too high", rather than ignoring the input you should project it down to the "legal" area.
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8 / 10
Well done :D
But the idea is cool.
The size of obstacles could be just a bit smaller. It would have been nice to know how close am I to the surface.
Also direction change could be more gradual instead of instant.
Well done for first LD :)
The screen area where you can click isn't too well defined. When clicking "too high", rather than ignoring the input you should project it down to the "legal" area.
That aside, it's a pretty decent game. Good work!