Diving Belle

by the-stewarts

Overall★★★★★★★★★★4.01

Fun★★★★★★★★★★4.01

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.41

Theme★★★★★★★★★★4.32

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★4.37

Audio★★★★★★★★★★3.66

Humor★★★★★★★★★★3.24

Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.79

We're a team of 3 (me and my kids...):

Andrew - Coding and final art

Joni - Design and character design

Evan - Fish design and audio (also contributed to design)

CONTROLS

Move: WASD, Arrow keys or Gamepad

Shoot: Left click, Space, Return or Gamepad

INSTRUCTIONS

You are Belle and your parents have made you get a job for a week because you're a grumpy teenager and they think it will do you the world of good.

Little do they know that the only job available at sleepy seaside hometown involved diving into dangerous water to shoot fish and collect all of their loot!

Here's how to play:

1) Jump in

2) Shoot fish

3) Collect the loot

4) Take it back to the boat

5) Meet your daily quota

6) Upgrade

7) Get to the end of the week

8) Don't drown

Have fun and good luck!

Genres: action

Comments36

BinaryLynx7 Apr 2025, 18:11

Great polished game! Graphics, gameplay and sounds are all solid. The only thing i would change is aiming towards mouse rather than closest fish and I'm not sure if it's an upgrade i didn't get, but piercing multiple fish would be awesome

OnlinE_Play7 Apr 2025, 20:33

Gameplay and arts are incredible really enjoyable game tbh

LDJam user 4115678 Apr 2025, 10:41

Very nice sprites :), and well working mechanics! the first day is super long and the player is too slow for my taste in the beginning.

KielanT8 Apr 2025, 10:46

Nicely executed, I agree with what has been said about aiming using the mouse would improve this a lot. I also wished you can see the mouse in the Menus, other than that nice game

GoogleFrog8 Apr 2025, 11:43

Excellent entry. I died to a crocodile around day 4 or 5, then tried again and made so much more money. It really is a rich-get-richer situation, but it was still lots of fun zipping around depopulating the ocean on the last few days.

Indiealesha8 Apr 2025, 11:46

Absolutely stunning graphics! Your game really stands out among other covers. I'm sure it'll rank highly for visuals!

Franz2678 Apr 2025, 11:48

Really cool game, I really like the idea, really nice graphics along with the audio. The only thing that should be changed at most is the shooting of the weapon to catch the fish, I would make sure to aim with the cursor rather than auto aim. Good job anyway. 👍

LDJam user 2828708 Apr 2025, 12:11

Brother you did so good.

Well done!!! Everything was just excellent.

I enjoyed every second of the game play.

One suggestion, perhaps a pick up to increase the speed of swimming. Kill a certain type of fish and it increases your swim speed for a short time. Another pick up to extend your oxygen.

Thanks.

MorePixels8 Apr 2025, 12:15

This was incredible! I loved everything, the art, the audio the game itself! I will have to play more later and try and finish it, for now, I died on day 3 because I was greedy haha.

xWilQ8 Apr 2025, 12:20

Ended up actually playing for a good while 😄. Really fun game, gonna have to go back in to explore even deeper into the depths. Simple gameplay but presented so well! Good job!

bene-labs8 Apr 2025, 12:24

Super fun game with a great art style and impressive polish, one of my favourites so far!

Could use some balnace adjustment with the upgrades snowballing super fast while the quora barely rises but the feeling of getting way more powerfull with every day was great!
The music only played for the first 10 seconds of each day but the rest of the sound design was good.

Here's my cash high-score:

Soul Grinder8 Apr 2025, 13:25

Nice game, would of been nice to have a browser version but apart from that it was really fun

stmatn8 Apr 2025, 13:56

Super fun game! Graphics and audio are nice too. It feels a lot like those old-school flash game in which I can sink an unspeakable amout of time :D

xpoho9 Apr 2025, 04:52

Oh, two crocodiles played ping-pong with me and i was a ball for them and then i died =\

Very nice and polished game! You are made a good family team ^_^

RyuSoHyeong9 Apr 2025, 10:17

Beautiful visuals, my eyes enjoyed the picture^^ Great effects and minimalistic UI. Hard to see such beautiful games among many others T_T

LDJam user 2385009 Apr 2025, 11:35

Great game! The recoil is fun. You can "bounce" between fish, or as I used it mostly, get up as close as possible so you instantly pick up the coins, and shoot to fling yourself where you want to go. Very fun!
Would be cool with some pickup range upgrade.

The biggest feedback for me is the coin counter. The count up/down does not speed up, so when you have thousands the counter never really stops. At first I thought I had to let the counter count to deposit money at the boat but turns out you can just start it and go back down. A bit confusing.

Also when getting super fast some camera tweaks could have helped, maybe zoom out or look ahead.

Art and sounds are great! Very nice and fun overall!

She Wrote9 Apr 2025, 16:22

Wow! This is the most fun I’ve had in the competition so far, even if most of it came from breaking the game's balance. The enemy variety is great, taking them down feels super cathartic, and the game does a good job visually showing how strong each one is. Also, the art is absolutely adorable. Well done!

Yatsu9 Apr 2025, 22:17

It's a very exciting game. cute visual, good graphics and very addictive gameplay. However, it seems to me that you have a bug with dinosaurs, but it didn't spoil the emotions of the passage at all.

Stratcat6610 Apr 2025, 18:05

At day 6 I felt like a god, diving with light speed through the water...
After 10 seconds I collided with a fish in depth 7 and died instantly :)

Very funny and satisfies my power fantasy.

LDJam user 38419110 Apr 2025, 18:17

This is so nice! The sprites are beautiful, and the gameplay is very solid. I really like how the knockback of the harpoon gun forces you to spend O2 fetching the money. Great entry!

Ollie Hall13 Apr 2025, 13:11

This was super fun! Although needs some balancing, as I went over quota by >100k haha, but that was really fun!

Jacky San13 Apr 2025, 17:10

Funny game, congratz to you and your kids !

Amolker13 Apr 2025, 19:26

Really addictive, and well polished! Great job! Everything is on the exelent level of execution!

Clink13 Apr 2025, 19:50

Sqeaky clean graphics and a very satisfying gameplay loop. Must be one of the most fun experiences I had so far when it comes to this specific jam. The game may start out slow, but it gets *really* nice and smooth *really* flipping fast.

Might have been nice to have some sort of soundtrack goin' in the background as you're out harpooning around, since the piece that plays upon a finished day made me wish we got more of it. Congrats to Joni and Evan for coming up with such endearing designs too!

Clink13 Apr 2025, 19:50

I'm so sorry-

Clink13 Apr 2025, 19:50

I accidentally left the same exact comment 7 times over, due to my pc bugging out.

Clink13 Apr 2025, 19:50

And I am.. not seeing any delete button..

Clink13 Apr 2025, 19:50

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Clink13 Apr 2025, 19:50

*W o o p s*

Haoro13 Apr 2025, 21:26

Really nice game ! It's well polished and fun to upgrade all the way until the end so it becomes nawak ! 😆

JHax13 Apr 2025, 21:50

On some level I think being able to aim freely might have been nice to use the recoil as a bit more of a movement mechanic - although I think in some ways that might have simplified things a bit too much (you obviously _can_ use it to help move as it is, it's just a bit trickier, which is perhaps a good thing!) Might also have been nice for the spear gun to be able to shoot through more than 1 fish if it's all lined up right, but again I can see how that might knock the difficulty / balance a bit too much.

The art is really lovely, and there's a pleasing progression to things as they are!

librory14 Apr 2025, 05:29

Simple and bright) like the funny hard sound of a weapon and art of fishes) maybe it could look better with bg music) funny at first time, i was looking for some interesting features other than fishing)

ShaCoZha14 Apr 2025, 21:34

Great game! Nice and clear audio and visual effects! Simple but immersive gameplay. Loved it.

egawag21 Apr 2025, 04:37

That was really fun, played for a good 20 minutes enjoying exploring further and further with greater oxygen and speed!

Tod Semple22 Apr 2025, 02:12

That's great you did this with your kids! I made my game with my kids too! This game was super cute. We had fun playing!