Salmon Run!

by werdnalt

co-authored: @akalbiam, @danielleclair, @gyrojoe

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.67

Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.57

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.21

Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.65

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.76

Audio★★★★★★★★★★3.50

Humor★★★★★★★★★★3.09

Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.56

The life of a salmon is tough - especially when it only lasts 10 seconds! Swim upstream through a variety of hazards while laying eggs along the way to ensure the next generation can take your place and finish where you left off.

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Made for Ludum Dare Jam 51!

Programming - Daniel Leclair

Programming - Joe Flint

Music + Sound Design - Brian Kalb

Art - Andrew Leclair

Change Log: fixed placement of wall hitboxes

Tags: #game jam, #hand-drawn

Genres: platformer

Comments22

LDJam user 2578104 Oct 2022, 03:18

Zooming with the flies is fun, nice work! Also love homemade feeling of the artwork.

Ninnec4 Oct 2022, 03:19

The art is really nice and the movement handles really well

Cope4 Oct 2022, 03:19

Excellent take on the theme. I enjoyed the art and the music very much. Well done!

NotALobster4 Oct 2022, 03:19

I love the art! Cool idea for the theme too.

Lepletier4 Oct 2022, 03:20

Nice entry! Beautyfull art!

Neek-v24 Oct 2022, 03:20

WOW I was really impressed with this game! The jump roll has a great momentum to it and I thought there was a lot of variety in terms of the obstacles. You struck a great balance with the difficulty and the music and art were on point!

Paul Avallone4 Oct 2022, 03:20

Really funny use of theme. I love the music and the art. Some of the collisions are a little hard to tell but other than that I have no problems. I really enjoyed the game. Great job!

GERD4 Oct 2022, 03:22

Totally beautiful!

hammerfrenzy4 Oct 2022, 03:22

Made it! Really enjoyed the spin jump in particular, and the sounds & music are pleasant. Keeping momentum from flies/whirlpools through jumps was also fun. Good work!

vgel4 Oct 2022, 03:32

Took me 15 minutes but I finally beat it :-) really hard in places and took me a bunch of tries: being a salmon is truly the dark souls of fish, i guess

i really liked the jumping animation specifically. it was really satisfying for some reason.

pouiee4 Oct 2022, 03:32

Very fun game, I couldn't get past the large waterfall but loved the theme and I really felt like a salmon.

Eugenik4 Oct 2022, 12:29

This was really atmospheric and well put together

chrissx24 Oct 2022, 12:35

Cute and energetic game. Good job :)

Rawb4 Oct 2022, 21:18

Super fun game and an awesome style. Nice introduction of new mechanics to seamlessly progress in difficulty

infinitycore5 Oct 2022, 09:07

This ain't Splatoon?!

Very fun, a bit frustrating at the end.

saikai5 Oct 2022, 09:35

Nice feeling game but a bit frustrating because it is hard to see where your salmon actually is. (And curse the waterfalls... :))

Buster6 Oct 2022, 01:38

Great game! I made a video for it here. Cheers!

Earlybard6 Oct 2022, 10:59

Great fun and loved the mood. Good work!

NeneChico6 Oct 2022, 23:35

nice difficulty challenge and original theme, thanks for the contribution :)

Majadroid7 Oct 2022, 07:46

Maybe a bit to hard for me. But I love the art style the overall design of your game.

Kitkii10 Oct 2022, 20:07

Really cute game. Struggled in that last part but managed to get it. Loved the artstyle and how the game felt overall. I can't really find a critique that you could improve upon. The gameplay with having checkpoint and the flies increasing speed and with the difficulty of the game was all solid and results in a polished game.

Paulsams11 Oct 2022, 20:43

Very cute graphics and animation are just a buzz! I especially liked that when you take a checkpoint, the timer resets, otherwise it would have been very annoying, and so only positive emotions remained. Although of course the penultimate obstacle was just dramatically more difficult than the previous ones, but it didn't really prevent I from getting satisfaction from your game. Thanks).