David The Diver

by autumnl1

co-authored: @bigboss-c137, @clevraven, @david-guereca, @epic-king-salt, @simba-in-space

Overall★★★★★★★★★★2.42

Fun★★★★★★★★★★2.16

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★2.55

Theme★★★★★★★★★★2.89

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★2.98

Audio★★★★★★★★★★2.68

Humor★★★★★★★★★★1.88

Mood★★★★★★★★★★2.44

Explore the sea on this open water adventure. Through out the ocean you will encounter all sorts of creatures that will interact with you in unique ways. Fight of ramming whales, skin eating piranhas, ferocious sharks that will shred your tentacles and poisonous Red Algae. With your trusty Trident by your side no beast is untamable and no layer is deep enough. Learn to read the current and you will master the sea.

Note:Game takes <1minute to load on browser after dive in is pressed

Controls

WASD - Move

Hold Shift - Speed Up

Left Click - Stab

Q - Tentacle Skill 1

E - Tentacle Skill 2

Hold Q/E + mouse scroll - swap skill

Credit

RadicalPi - 3d Models

Simba - Concept art + 2d art

MarlboroMan - Sound

Epic King Salt - Story

Clever Raven - Animations + 3d Models

BigBoss - Scripting

Autumn - Scripting + Shaders

Changelog
4/26 8:07pm(MDT) - Changed trident animation exit time since attack sound was getting spammed
4/27 2:27pm(MDT) - Cut content, enabled optimize mesh settings, and changed scene load method to help improve load issues on browser

Genres: survival

Tools: Unity

Comments17

pRoFiT27 Apr 2021, 04:22

Maybe it's my web browser (chrome). but as soon as i dive at begining it locks up? i'll try another browser. Same on Edge

AutumnL1author27 Apr 2021, 06:02

Thanks for the feedback. The game seems to take a bit to load into the main scene and makes the browser think its not responding. Currently looking for a fix.

Foursay27 Apr 2021, 09:49

The game looks cool but I alwasy stuck at the "dive in "page as the little man dive in the ocean and my screen freeze afterwards. Maybe a little buggy there?

yusovv27 Apr 2021, 21:37

Overall this is a good prototype, you have potential!
Personally, I missed the increase in movement speed, everything is too slow

JLV27 Apr 2021, 22:26

Fun underwater exeperience ! I enjoyed the 3D models, the relaxing audio and the relative freedom given to the player.

Strenghts :
- Full 3D and cool animations
- Great msuic and sound design

Weaknesses :
- Controls do not mak it easy to reach the local fauna

All in all, goo job !

nicholassoen28 Apr 2021, 13:36

Got a crash at the beginning :(

ShotgunSamurai_28 Apr 2021, 14:01

Really like the animations. Good job!

Usenrame28 Apr 2021, 16:59

Game crashing on the beginning +1 :(

rhoff9528 Apr 2021, 17:32

Crashed, but looks cool.

AutumnL1author28 Apr 2021, 23:47

Is it outright crashing or slowing down your browser ? there where some oversights on testing for browser and load time from menu to level is not so great

ropedog1 May 2021, 03:24

This game looks very pretty, and the animations were spot on. The underwater setting gives both the mood and the theme high marks. Moving around through the vast ocean and fighting various sea life was a lot of fun - I only wish I could move faster to experience more of it!

The music does get a little bit repetitive, although the musical theme and instrumentation really add a lot to the game's vibe. I think it could really take the game up a notch if the music were a little longer before repeating, or if the audible "skip" before the song repeats wasn't present. This could possibly be resolved by making the loop exactly the length of the music - and if it already was the exact length of the music, then bouncing/exporting the audio in a lossless format will usually resolve this issue in Unity.

I enjoyed playing - thanks for making this!

OldDog3 May 2021, 10:20

the web mode crush at the first time ,that makes me fells bad :cry:

Geo3D3 May 2021, 13:23

Good game.
Great graphics and animations. The visual voronoi texture for the water light effects are nice.
I found the combat hit detection to be a little difficult to tell if it hit anything.
Also, it's difficult to tell where the trident is hitting on the screen, a small dot where the trident hits would help a lot.
I can see this becoming a great game with some polish.

PxlDev4 May 2021, 07:38

Really nice. Animatonsand graphics look great.

DDRKirbyISQ5 May 2021, 06:43

I'm not sure if I really did anything, but I sort of wandered around and waved my tentacles about in the water, so I guess that's cool? The loading time really brought me back to the PS1 era, lol

kirb7 May 2021, 04:46

crashed at the start for me =(

Iak7 May 2021, 07:31

It looks really cool, but didn't run well for me. Movement was so slow I could barely tell I was moving (even with shift pressed), the web version was very laggy, so played locally instead. Btw, if you're already hosting the web version on itch.io, you don't have to clog up your dropbox, just upload the downloadable version on itch.io, too and it should show up as download link.

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