Deep Dive into the Dark Depths

by smubear
co-authored: @nuclearchair
Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.54
Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.59
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★2.89
Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.91
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.32
Audio★★★★★★★★★★3.40
Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.46
Link to itch.io!

https://heckin-doggo.itch.io/deep-dive-dark-depths

Dive into an adventure _deeper and deeper_ into the dark and unknown in *Deep Dive into the Dark Depths!*

This game features a mixture of gameplay elements that feel somewhere in between Frogger and a bullet hell. What lies at the bottom of this deep, dark trench?

__CONTROLS__

WASD or Arrow keys, your pick. Should in theory also support an xbox controller, but it remains untested.

__FISH VARIETIES__

* __Feesh__ - Rather stupid. Yellow in tint, move in one direction.
* __Foosh__ - The more aggressive Feesh. Blue in color. It follows divers, and hates when they get away.
* __Sploosh__ - Green fish, able to shoot algae projectiles. Likes their personal space, though. Use that to your advantage.
* __Gloosh__ - Glowing green fish. They are passive and don't want to make you drown, they just want to light the way.
* __Snark__ - Big meanies. Come in at high velocity, but your scuba gear is able to detect them shortly before they plow on through.
* __Skadoosh__ - ?????????
* __Kaboosh__ - ate too much taco bell

__SCREENSHOTS__

Comments18

YgdraN26 Apr 2021, 23:53
Simple and fun, when the shooting fishes showed up it got really hard haha!good job!
Nick Barrash26 Apr 2021, 23:56
So to be honest, I've played a bunch of other "Dive into water and avoid things" games so far...

...but I gotta say, this one is far and away the best one!

It's super well balanced, the difficulty ramps up very smoothly, the enemies are really interesting (I especially like the Foosh -- Homing + Lunge worked really well here!) and I liked mechanics like reduced light (for the first 50 meters I was like pssh who needs a flashlight but by 500 meters I was desperately searching for one!)

If I were back in high school computer lab, I'd definitely skip all my assignments and just play this.

Great job!
bonicle27 Apr 2021, 00:05
I started a bit confused, but after that initial learning curve, it was fun! After a while though, the game got a bit repetitive and went on for too long. Same goes with the boss at the end, it was super fun for a while, then it just got repetitive and way too hard. Nice game overall though! I really liked the music and the art was great too!
Spaghetti Inc.
Spaghetti Inc.27 Apr 2021, 02:35
It has the feesh and the foosh! 10/10 would play again
Almighty Games
Almighty Games27 Apr 2021, 04:57
excellent entry. the developer said this was his first finished game! way to go! This is a solid entry for the game jam.
KyleTheCoder27 Apr 2021, 10:28
Great game! The way you pulled off the light effect was really great, worked very well. Glad to see more Godot games. :smile: Simple game to understand, and very effective type of game for a jam of this size.
hamzaplayssssssssss
hamzaplayssssssssss28 Apr 2021, 13:30
great game, fits the theme, fun gameplay, good graphics and really cool but it`s a little hard Overall (4.5 / 5)
tinykidtoo
tinykidtoo28 Apr 2021, 16:02
These fish are ruthless. Great job, with this, it might be a bit too hard for me, but I like these kinda arcade-y titles. Now if only I was a bit better.
Deseteral
Deseteral28 Apr 2021, 16:05
The game started as very easy but later on got quite hard. I liked the variety of enemies and the graphics. It surprisingly was a very zen-like experience :smile: Great job! Congrats!
3DFlow28 Apr 2021, 16:14
Simple concept but well balanced, a lot of different interesting ennemies and a surprise at the end (!)
Pepel
Pepel29 Apr 2021, 08:55
630 )))
suppi
suppi30 Apr 2021, 07:34
Awesome game! Liked it a lot
Yamzho1 May 2021, 09:09
Nice entry ! Simple concept but well built. Good job !
eusekerci
eusekerci2 May 2021, 12:45
it is very funny that we made a very similar game! :) I like the real time version of the same idea. We only added a twist that you have to go back to surface, but without that feature I see that it also get interesting. Great game!
tengusheath
tengusheath3 May 2021, 04:57
The gameplay and music was relaxing. I got to the end boss and had no idea what I was supposed to do. It seemed like fish would come out and explode and hurt the boss, but it was so random I felt like I wasn't doing anything.
Ve_ret
Ve_ret5 May 2021, 18:35
The game is addictive, good job for Jem))

If you diversify the background, you get super
Kofuku
Kofuku7 May 2021, 18:21
Good game and nice little tune, giving the background some texture though would be nice.
tangiblegames11 May 2021, 20:21
Nice entry, and fits the theme well! I couldn't make it to the bottom of the trench, got eaten by the... snarks? somewhere between 500 and 600 meters. For LD, it could be a little bit shorter or include a checkpoint or two :)

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