Squid Pro Quo

Overall★★★★★★★★★★4.04
Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.98
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.86
Theme★★★★★★★★★★4.13
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★4.38
Audio★★★★★★★★★★3.82
Humor★★★★★★★★★★3.50
Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.81
Coolness★★★★★★★★★★50%
Help a squid find a new home where her enormous body fits and where no one will bother her!

Controls:

Use mouse! (left button + move)

!!SPOILERS!!

What all the upgrades do:

- Grow: Get another tentacle

- Extend: Tentacles are longer

- Goggles: Spawn a transparent circle where your cursor is

- Locomotion: Slight auto-aim

- Aquadynamics: Faster reload time

- Well-fed: Recover health over time

- Strong: Hit harder/more damage

- Heavy bones: Do more damage with falling tentacles

Comments33

JoeProgram24 Aug 2015, 04:19
What a sweet game! I really liked on level 3 having to choose whether to attack right or left, and the fish enemies were a great addition! I found myself wanting a progress indicator in the level, and the ability to use my left and right mouse buttons for the left and right tentacles. Great entry!
dvdking24 Aug 2015, 07:21
Great game!
I was surprised how intuitive the controls are.
Levels are a bit too long in my opinion.
uthamon
uthamon24 Aug 2015, 07:28
Creative game with aesthetically pleasing graphics. Enjoyed it very much.
MagnusFurcifer24 Aug 2015, 09:28
My only problem was that my mouse wasn't captured by the game so I kept incidentally clicking on my 2nd desktop.
MagnusFurcifer24 Aug 2015, 09:29
Fun game! Looked great and it was very satisfying when you killed things!

My only problem was that my mouse wasn't captured by the game so I kept accidentally clicking on my 2nd desktop and minimizing the game.
dickpoelen
dickpoelen24 Aug 2015, 14:43
Realy fun. Played it on a touchscreen, which might be even more fun than with a mouse. Might have to check out the source to learn a few things :)
Polyganz24 Aug 2015, 16:46
Hilarious execution and a lot of fun to play. Well done!
Shaw
Shaw25 Aug 2015, 14:13
Excellent game, wonderful graphics, really well polished and the controls work fantastically. You've done a really good job with this one!
NeanderG25 Aug 2015, 22:25
Those controls man. Enjoyed the game tho. ChingChung :)
GFM
GFM26 Aug 2015, 00:43
Man, this is a great entry... but so hard. >__<

(I think that) I understood how the tentacles work... they try to move toward the cursor in a straight line... But this knowledge is pretty much useless when you are being pressured by a lot of enemies. XD

On my first play through, I got the 'extend' power up first, which helped me quite a lot...

Great game and great graphics! I only found the song a little repetitive...
GeorgeBroussard26 Aug 2015, 04:30
LOVE the art style. Looks really good and the movement on the ship and waves was great. Agree with above comments on controls/aiming, but this is a great little game. I'd polish it up some more and see about tightening up the controls.
thebrickanator
thebrickanator26 Aug 2015, 05:30
I really like this game but believe it would be allot more fun to play on a touchscreen device :) as said by someone else. very polished and it works with the theme. Good job!
ruerob26 Aug 2015, 12:35
Haha! This is a really great game! I love how the music evolves from level to level. I really liked the upgrades and the whole feel of the game! Very well done!
CADmiy26 Aug 2015, 18:01
Great pixel art game!
voidstar3326 Aug 2015, 20:20
Just awesome. Excellent art, music, theme, and what not. A perfect, complete game for LD33 Compo.
Realize2D
Realize2D26 Aug 2015, 23:42
I really liked it. It has a good variety of gameplay.
guoboism27 Aug 2015, 01:48
Overall 5/5! Great job! Can't believe how simple idea can be made into such fun game! This should be taken into textbook! PICKED BY GB!
el-pepi
el-pepi27 Aug 2015, 02:54
Very original and solid game! In my opinion it got too hard a litte too fast. Also, I wish you captured the cursor, I keep clicking outside the game.
CrownCity
CrownCity27 Aug 2015, 13:59
Cute as always! Great extra with the upgrades. I just wished that the goggles looked more fresh on the Squid :)
Patacorow27 Aug 2015, 14:33
Love the graphics and the upgrade mechanic was awesome.
Good job :)
tmpxyz
tmpxyz27 Aug 2015, 15:53
A well-implemented big tentacles.
tripleVisionGames27 Aug 2015, 19:12
Very polished! Great fun and I love how everything bounces! I found myself attacking with the rhythm of the tune :D
Mike Mezhenin27 Aug 2015, 20:26
Wow, those animations are super-fluid. Good game, although a hard one.
derr
derr28 Aug 2015, 16:15
Audio-visually this is perfect! The controls make this game very hard. I enjoyed it a lot and will keep playing this!
FireTwin
FireTwin31 Aug 2015, 11:23
I liked the mood of this game, everything lumbering along like a ship on the open sea. However, the gameplay was just a little too slow and I never felt like I had enough control over the tentacles, but at the same time I appreciate that it needs to not be too easy either. I think the upgrade system is really well done. Great job.
Sanguine7 Sep 2015, 19:27
Really polished as always! The graphics are really lovely! The game could be a bit faster though
Jezzamon
Jezzamon7 Sep 2015, 22:27
Hm. My mouse disappears when I play this game, which makes it pretty difficult.
Jezzamon
Jezzamon7 Sep 2015, 22:45
This game was a lot more doable with the googles :)

But I'm now currently being hit by the last ship left, sitting on almost no health but not able to die :P
KilledByAPixel
KilledByAPixel7 Sep 2015, 23:22
- great art style, feels really fun to look at, really nice water effects
- good re-use of stuff for different levels
- it was cool hearing the music change as level progressed
- i kept clicking off the window even though it was full screen, that made it difficult to play
- i could not figure out how to kill the blimps, but I didn't want to start from the beginning again after i died.
- an option to continue would be nice
- more precise control would help, i often couldn't predict how I was going to swing. after reading comments it seems like maybe the mouse cursor was supposed to be visible, but for me it wasn't

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