Ludum Dare #48compo

Deep Dive

by forsakenbacon

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.33

Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.17

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★2.92

Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.83

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.67

Humor★★★★★★★★★★3.75

Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.92

Scuba diving at night... to the deep dark? What could go wrong?

Play as Scuba, an amateur scuba diver. He just bought his first boat and has gone out for his first scuba dive. After getting his feet wet, he's decided he want's to go deeper. Harpoon fish and earn enough money for the next submarine and continue your journey to the bottom of the ocean. You'll be a professional in no time.

Tags: #2d, #global game jam, #my first game jam, #pixel art, #short, #singleplayer, #unity

Genres: shooter, survival

Comments9

rhoff9526 Apr 2021, 03:15

Would love to see a web build!

Zettabit26 Apr 2021, 03:33

Nice jam game. Definitely fits the theme and good use of lighting. I felt like the up/down movement should be faster though.

ForsakenBaconauthor26 Apr 2021, 06:26

@rhoff95 Had a few issues trying to get a webGL version to build and wasn't able to get it successfully uploaded on Itch.

wooliii26 Apr 2021, 07:22

The lighting was really cool ! It'd be nice if there was a web version, maybe try and get one online ?

drom1x26 Apr 2021, 07:25

Nice idea, the movement is a little bit slow and the little fishes are hard to hit

PurpledArtFrog26 Apr 2021, 18:48

@forsakenbacon - try disabling compression under publishing and also I had a crash which required me to "ignore" errors... Found a long explanation on the issue ...

Would love to see a web build :fingers_crossed_tone1:

LDJam user 24332227 Apr 2021, 06:42

I enjoyed this one. The art was nice, and the ambience was effective. At first the movement felt slow but it provided a nice challenge for lining up shots with the quickly moving fish. However I never really felt much in danger, and only lost a couple of hearts over the course of the game - I would recommend making each stage a bit longer, and increasing the density of fish. Overall great job, especially as a first game! :)

Jacky Chan27 Apr 2021, 07:12

Love the cool graphics and it fit the theme. The game has a full mechanism. But iIthink the control will be better if you can shoot by pressing the key on the keyboard as the mouse don't control the facing

DDesignDude28 Apr 2021, 06:58

The flashlight flare is a great addition to the game's graphics and at first I thought that was the only thing it was for. Then I got to the darkest level and saw that flashlight is pretty vital to actually seeing things lol! I also love that level for having angler and viper fish swimming around, nice work on their sprite art!