A Jelly Upon the Deep

by 0hslash

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.12

Fun★★★★★★★★★★2.88

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★2.88

Theme★★★★★★★★★★4.08

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.55

Humor★★★★★★★★★★2.50

Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.33

You are a jellyfish alone in the depths of the ocean. The other jellies have returned to their home without you! Make your way down to find your family, but beware of the dangers you will find in these waters. The further you go, the closer you get to the Kraken's territory. But that's just a myth... right?

Controls:

Move Left/Right : W/D, <-/->, or Left joystick.

Gold coins will make you sink faster. Bubbles will make you sink slower, and if you collect enough you can even start moving back up.

Boss Fight Spoilers:

Once you have awakened the Kraken, it will follow you until either you or it dies. Use the bubbles and coins to change your downward velocity. The Kraken can be killed by pushing the green "poison" blocks into its open eye. Good luck!

Credits:

All coding, pixel art, and sounds are done by me: 0hSlash.

The pallet I used is called Bubblegum 16 by PineappleOnPizza

Music was created by me using BeepBox. Sounds were generated using SFXR.

Tags: #2d, #pixel art, #short, #unity

Genres: action

Tools: BeepBox, Unity, sfxr

Comments8

TentacleMax27 Apr 2021, 00:51

Very fun! And I love this art!

LDJam user 24239427 Apr 2021, 19:19

I love the mechanic makes player to control jellyfish's speed by picking some in-game stuff. It's simple and fun!

Wallkysek27 Apr 2021, 19:19

Hello, I liked your graphics, but I was really confused. I would love to have some tutorial difficulty. I died too much in the beginning and after some time it wasn't much easier. At least for me. Maybe some progressive difficulty would be nice.

EnergizedBlast27 Apr 2021, 19:28

I like the simple control scheme and having to rely on controlling your speed with pickups, though it's easy to get out of control if you get too fast. Overall a fun game!

polkoii9 May 2021, 23:24

Cute and simple game! I liked the art design! It feels different since we're not the one going down but the area around us is moving! Some of the moving does feel a bit unfair (maybe a dash or something to use to react to incoming threats) but overall, a neat experience!

Super Hadoken14 May 2021, 13:00

Sweet simple game. Could do with a few extra sounds. Maybe a slight horizontal speed increase is needed, the little green fishes are hard to dodge if they spawn below you.

LePoulet14 May 2021, 18:47

Like the art. Had fun during my session.

drludos14 May 2021, 23:32

A simple but nice game you have made here, congrats!
I really love the music and the graphics, it set a relaxing mood! (at least until we start to move faster!). I loved the "fake coin" enemy, it's a very effective trap!

The game is quite challenging in it's current state, maybe you should reduce the enemies spawn rate, or increase the player left/right movement speed.

Another minor complaint: when we reach the speed of 4.5, we have at the same speed as the coins, so it's very difficult to catch one (you have to wait for a lucky spawn in the same vertical position as yours). Maybe you should give the coins a random Y movement speed to avoid this.

All in all, you should keep on working on it, it could become a nice game for mobile :)