Age of Aquaria

by mahalis
Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.73
Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.63
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.56
Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.85
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★4.34
Audio★★★★★★★★★★2.88
Humor★★★★★★★★★★3.24
Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.53
If you were a fish on a desert planet, how would you get from one place to another?

Right—you wouldn’t. Not without help! _Age of Aquaria_ is a game about helping fish.


Pick up aquaria and deliver them to their destination. Careful, though: the terrain is rough and you have no arms.

This is my 13th LD entry. Tools used:
- Unreal Engine (everything)
- Cinema 4D (most models, UI art)
- Houdini (rocks)
- Substance Designer (textures)
- GarageBand (sounds)

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Comments19

Leon Oost
Leon Oost20 Apr 2020, 18:20
I murdered a lot of fish today XD. Nice game!
Kirbloid
Kirbloid21 Apr 2020, 01:49
Theme would be rated 0 if I had to go by how well I kept the fish alive, but thankfully it's not based on that. Great job with the unique theme take, and great use of Unreal engine to make a nice looking physics game.
lker21 Apr 2020, 06:03
I thought the third level had some pretty mean topography, way harder than the fourth one. Cool game!
WMute
WMute21 Apr 2020, 07:12
Death Stranding part two >_
squareoctopus22 Apr 2020, 02:20
Those poor fish, they weren't expecting me as their savior... nice game!
pvg22 Apr 2020, 02:38
Very nice! Enjoyable little game, just challenging enough. I do wish the camera panned out a bit to show all the fish on my head. Also, seeing the fish continue to animate after dropping them was bittersweet in the best way.

In the Zip file for Windows, I think you have included much more than you need if you only want to distribute what is needed to run the game. The LD46 folder is not needed, and removing it would save you 740MB before compression.
drprettypatty
drprettypatty22 Apr 2020, 04:01
the wall-e robot is really cute, and this game really reminded me of the experience of bringing groceries in from the car -- it must be done in one trip

with a little more polish (even just ambient noise and sfx, camera action, and detail in the environment), i think this could be a really charming game. the basic idea of it is good and fun. nice work!
MrLeePerry
MrLeePerry22 Apr 2020, 04:10
Fuuuun! Really love the art style and general design. Great balance of style, humor, and art... nice work!
ZevsEHG
ZevsEHG24 Apr 2020, 03:44
Cool game! Really nice materials!
Hernz24 Apr 2020, 11:48
Great game ! The graphics are really sweet, the gameplay is fun and the game introduction is clear, well done ! There are maybe too few levels but that's a good thing it means i wanted to play more. There is not that much sound, a little music would've been great. Killing the fishes is pretty funny, i wished there were some agonizing animation to make the player feel really bad, maybe some sound. These are littles things i would have expected in a jam game but since it's a compo game i'm not taking them into acount. Well done !
jk5000
jk500024 Apr 2020, 18:03
The visual style is really amazing. The gameplay idea is okay, but the game feels a bit unfinished. Overall an okay little jam game.
Linky439
Linky43924 Apr 2020, 19:43
Oops, a lot of fishes are dead.

Nice one! The graphics are great (simple yet very effective 3D), and the idea is fun if a bit hard to master. I managed to always get a least one fish in every stage (including a finish a couple of seconds before the timer ran out).
A fun ride, I would have love a bit more audio and I feel it is hard to predict how the fishes will move. But overall, a nice game, congrats!
Attala
Attala26 Apr 2020, 20:19
Wow, the graphics are really impressive in this game. As others have mentioned I think some more sound would do wonders to this game. Nice submission!
Bloham
Bloham27 Apr 2020, 07:49
Cute little robot ^^ I like to see some games with Unreal here :) It looks of corse amazing! Slightly irritating is that the robot looks at me all the time xD I would like to have different coloured fishes in my tanks and maybe to balance the weight with the mouse while rolling with WASD. than you can make fishes that leap over on one side and you have to constantly try to keep the balance ^^ Otherwise I mostly had 3 fishes and drove quite carefully. But the use of the materials is fantastic. Ah and some sound effects for the robot moving would have been nice. But its a good game :)
Endurion
Endurion28 Apr 2020, 15:41
Nice challenge :)

I could delivery fish to the goal and made it to stage 3. I delivered two fish to the goal but could not go on?
Is one fish not actually enough?

Other than that, solid presentation. I also found it irritating, that the robot would look at be instead of the other way ;)
diinki
diinki28 Apr 2020, 15:52
I liked this! Good idea and you can definitely expand on this game a lot I believe! I believe the game lacked some background music, and the levels sort of kept the same look which could make things a bit repetitive. But the game was challenging and I'd wish there was more levels that you could play! Good work :>
GreenDinoGames
GreenDinoGames1 May 2020, 13:52
Cool gameconcept. Challenging but nicely balanced. I like that the robot always looks in the player direction :D
Virtual Window
Virtual Window8 May 2020, 08:41
Great little game. I love the concept. I wonder how this would translate as a gyro-based game 🤔 like with the PS4 controller or as a mobile game. The robot could be semi autonomous with your balance guiding the directional change. Love the character :)

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