Gaga Diver

by justuspan

co-authored: @jkllin

Overall★★★★★★★★★★4.12

Fun★★★★★★★★★★4.12

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.87

Theme★★★★★★★★★★4.31

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★4.52

Humor★★★★★★★★★★3.46

Mood★★★★★★★★★★4.02

Introduction

A duck is learning how to grab fishes like a bird.
Let's diving deeper, and flying higher.

Control

Left/Right Arrows - horizontal movement
Space - boost when diving OR flying.
E/Up arrow - interact, to buy abilities
Tab - pause game when pressing

How to win

this is a high score game, try to get higher score before your energy use out.
When your energy use out, you will back to shore automatically, and end current game round, please try again.

How to play

- dive deeper, fly higher
- use boost to go deeper or higher
- touch fishes will get fish count and score
- when arrive a new depth, some score will be gained.
- different "fishes": snail, small fish, frog, long fish
- bump to obstables will decrease energy

Credits

- Code/Design Justus
- Art/Concept Jkllin
- SFX chip-tone
- BGM Suno

Tags: #2d

Genres: action

Tools: Godot

Comments23

gamesplusjames8 Apr 2025, 00:19

This is fun! I really like the artstyle! Great job!

slow chaz8 Apr 2025, 15:17

dude! this is so fun. really refreshing concept. I really enjoyed this.

FikusM98 Apr 2025, 15:32

Super cool graphics! Loved this interpretation of the theme! Well done! And

Tenzz8 Apr 2025, 15:35

Is it just me or does the game sometimes spawn way more fish than other times

Neth Iafin8 Apr 2025, 15:37

Pretty cool game, but I had issues understanding how many "flights" I had

ayuv8 Apr 2025, 15:41

The two-way mechanic is a very creative interpretation of 'depths' and the implementation is really impressive too. Fantastic job man!

Poppy Entertainment8 Apr 2025, 15:42

The game is really fun and the art style is lovely. Sometimes the fish generation seems a bit too random but other than that I haven't had any issues. Very polished game for a jam.

Patatje8 Apr 2025, 15:45

Incredible game! beautiful pixel art. Great music. just a blast to have fun with for a while.

WetBox8 Apr 2025, 18:36

it takes time to figure out controls. But after all duck goes brrr, great game :D

JustusPanauthor9 Apr 2025, 16:04

Here are some quantity generation strategies related to time, so yes, sometimes you will find a few more fish, getting the highest score requires some luck and skill. @tenzz Thank you for playing.

JustusPanauthor9 Apr 2025, 16:05

@gamesplusjames @slow-chaz @fikusm9 thanks for your playing! I am grateful for the initial reviews you gave for this game

JustusPanauthor9 Apr 2025, 16:07

@neth-iafin Yes, actually there are some algorithms simulating physical motion here, along with a spring mechanism. Simply put, the deeper you dive, the higher you bounce, but this height is limited. You need to actively use the sprint ability while moving upwards to fly a bit higher! Sorry that the mechanism here isn't fully polished. Thank you for playing!

JustusPanauthor9 Apr 2025, 16:10

Thank you for the comment! In fact, we initially just naturally came up with this idea because we thought it was interesting, so we made it. Perhaps the jumping mechanism is still worth some polishing and adjustments. @ayuv

JustusPanauthor9 Apr 2025, 16:11

@patatje @poppy-entertainment thanks for your playing! I also think the pixel art drawn by my partner is very cute!

angry_fridge9 Apr 2025, 21:37

Game feels very fluid and the controls are very easy and the sounds effects and music are really nice. The animations and colours are really good as well, I think the quality of this game is really good! I also like how you slow down the player to buy what they need to buy. A very solid entry I would say, enjoyed playing that :)

Coda Highland11 Apr 2025, 04:24

Very nice animations! It took a little bit to get used to the play control but once I did it was pretty fun.

jtap12 Apr 2025, 04:35

Amazing cute and nice game, very unusual mechanics, great sounds. I am delighted, thank you for this game!

Ricesteam12 Apr 2025, 20:36

Nice game. I love the graphics. The game reminds me of Ridiculous Fishing. Well done!

Defrag13 Apr 2025, 03:24

Fluid pixel art is hard to pull off, but you did it. I appreciated the novel game mechanic, but it took me a bit to understand exactly what was happening. I could not easily tell at first if there was carryover in the upgrades between runs, but eventually it felt like I was able to go deeper. Like others noted, this struck a strong Ridiculous Fishing chord for me, which I played a ton of. Great work!

Hoggerhead13 Apr 2025, 08:38

Love it. Nice music, cute animations. Works well. Really polished for jam.

LDJam user 28287013 Apr 2025, 16:58

You did extremely well with this game. The controls are very responsive. The algorithms you used for the diving and flying are very good.

I just had difficulty buying stuff... Other than that it was an excellent play. Thank you