Ludum Dare #57compo
See the Light
Play on itch.io (it seems like HTML5 build does not work through the "build-in" launcher).
#### A brief description
You are a little Anglerfish, trapped in the darkness of the deep ocean. You heard many times before, that if you try to swim up to the surface, you can see a whole different world, where light overcomes darkness...
So, this is your time. You are going to see the light and escape the depths of the ocean!
#### Controls
Use W to swim up, and A and D to move left and right.
You have an energy bar at the bottom of the screen, if you have no energy, then you cannot swim up.
Eat smaller fishes to get more energy!
Be careful to avoid bigger fishes, because when you are going close to them you spend some energy to avoid being eaten!
Reach the surface to see the light! Have fun! :smile:
#### Disclaimers
All assets and SFX were created by me. Music was downloaded from an open source website. Find it here.
#### A brief description
You are a little Anglerfish, trapped in the darkness of the deep ocean. You heard many times before, that if you try to swim up to the surface, you can see a whole different world, where light overcomes darkness...
So, this is your time. You are going to see the light and escape the depths of the ocean!
#### Controls
Use W to swim up, and A and D to move left and right.
You have an energy bar at the bottom of the screen, if you have no energy, then you cannot swim up.
Eat smaller fishes to get more energy!
Be careful to avoid bigger fishes, because when you are going close to them you spend some energy to avoid being eaten!
Reach the surface to see the light! Have fun! :smile:
#### Disclaimers
All assets and SFX were created by me. Music was downloaded from an open source website. Find it here.
Genres: platformer
Comments19
Thank you for your kind words!
@busisen No, the music is from a royalties-free site (I forgot to opt out from music), you can find a link on the description! Yes, the number at the bottom is supposed to be your energy, so the only effect is that you cannot swim up when it is 0. Thanks a lot for your kind words!
@liquid Thank you for your kind words! Have fun :smile:
Just wish there were more fish, and that I understand how to position my fish height wise, but very relaxing game
tap the up arrow, sometimes my fish would appear to move upwards much further than I expected,
as if I had held down the button, but I couldn't tell if that was a bug in the controls or if the
camera was moving in a way I couldn't see.
It's also not very difficult to make it all the way to the top
even if you ignore the larger fish when grabbing the smaller ones, making the game not
very challenging. Perhaps that was the intent, though.
But once I understood, it has been nice, as others say it is relaxing and I think that it is minimastic, good fonts, nice color palette, IDK a very solid entry.
Also good catch on adding an alternative link, even games that are supposed to work in the LD website sometimes it is hard for my computer to make them run, so the itchio link was a blessing.
Great entry and keep it up!
The game being about getting out of the depths of something rather than further in is a nice twist on the theme as well.
Very relaxing though!