How Low Can You Go?

by dancan
co-authored: @hypernerd, @robmcg
Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.16
Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.18
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★2.58
Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.84
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.33
Humor★★★★★★★★★★1.94
Mood★★★★★★★★★★2.89
See how deep you can dive.

Instructions


Use WASD or the arrow keys to swim. Try to avoid the marine life, it bites!

Click the left mouse button to fire your harpoon towards the cursor; a strong offence is the best defence!

Comments16

phealsout26 Apr 2021, 22:12
Pretty nice game, like the visuals
rgb-games26 Apr 2021, 22:13
The game is quite fun. A little hard perhaps but that's just me :)
namrog84
namrog8426 Apr 2021, 22:14
It was surprisingly more challenging to spear fish than I anticipated! I enjoyed it! I made it pretty deep before dying!
NateTheGreat26 Apr 2021, 22:19
Nice simple but fun game! The lighting is a nice subtle touch.
LukeTobin
LukeTobin26 Apr 2021, 22:22
It was challenging to control your movement and with having limited time to capitalize on attacking the core gameplay became fun. I loved the leaderboard addition at the end, made me want to try again a few times.
Gomega26 Apr 2021, 22:29
Really great stuff! I was impressed by how fun the game was to play; the movement was spot-on.

The addition of the game getting darker as you get deeper was a well-needed touch to make the game more interesting and difficult. The leaderboard was a good touch to keep me playing for more than one round as well.

One thing I would add is some sort of feedback to let the player know that they are taking damage. For instance, I couldn't quite tell if the fish were close enough to hit me or not, or if the rocks did any damage at all.

Overall, I think you did a great job making a difficult, but fair challenge.
Robmcg26 Apr 2021, 23:06
Thanks for your feelback @gomega. I've pushed a small change to flash the player when you take damage.
Evil Villain Games2 May 2021, 06:12
Wow I really love what you did with the theme. The glowing fish and everything slowly getting darker was an awesome effect. The leader board was a great touch too.
DoctorTM
DoctorTM4 May 2021, 01:32
It was more fun than expected! Great jam, love the graphics. Interesting mechanics.
LoreTV5 May 2021, 11:00
Cool game! At first I thought it will be very easy to shoot the fishes, but it's actually harder to hit them than I expected :D
tengusheath
tengusheath6 May 2021, 03:14
Starts to get hard once you get more fish chasing you
Mololo
Mololo17 May 2021, 14:55
Great game, the graphics look good and the gameplay is very engaging and fun. The level of difficulty makes me want to try again and get a higher score, which is great.

I would have liked a bit of background music and maybe shooting sounds, but a great game nevertheless.

Good job.
bmacintosh
bmacintosh17 May 2021, 15:56
Nice visual style. The art was pretty good, and I really liked the flashlight effect. Also a fun idea to have previous players appear in-game and not only on the leaderboard! For some reason I can't fully explain, it felt somewhat more difficult than it should have to harpoon big groups of fish. They tended to get bunched up easily but I could never get more than a few at once; I don't know if there was a limit?
Ntimi
Ntimi17 May 2021, 16:21
Great stuff! Your game is one of the few I played where you took the theme quite literally and made something interesting and challenging with it. :)

The spearfishing was not easy, but satisfying. There were some points in the game where I had nearly cleared the screen of fish, but then more (and bigger) fish came and made my life stressful again.
The gradual descent with rising darkness was a great style.

The only thing I was missing was any sound - the mood in your game was top notch, that would have brought it to perfect.

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