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Out of Depth's itch.io pageResults
| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Style | #16 | 4.717 | 4.717 |
| Overall | #161 | 4.120 | 4.120 |
| Enjoyment | #355 | 3.873 | 3.873 |
| Creativity | #1033 | 3.771 | 3.771 |
Ranked from 205 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
How does your game fit the theme?
Our game explores deep sea gigantism and how deep sea marine life is at a bigger scale than that closer to the water surface. This theme is reinforced in the visuals of the game with the depth meter on the side.
Development Time
96 hours
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Comments
We actually overscoped by quite a bit and ended up cutting a lot of content - but still pleasantly surprised that people found the game very polished! One of our biggest focuses for this year was polish, so we treated it as a 2 day jam and used the rest of the time to polish and panic fix things lol.
Thanks so much for the kind words, glad you enjoyed it!!
Treating it like a 2 day jam still resulted in 3 days of implementing features and mechanics (whats overscoping??😗). Fortunately art was done earlier than the programming so the artists could largely take a break. Next year we’ll try and have programming match the pace of the artists so that we can do bigger and better things without the same amount of crunch
2 years ago(+1)
It's great to hear that you enjoyed our game. Hopefully there'll be many more just as good in the future eh? Thank you so much.
2 years ago(+2)
WOOO Thank you so much for the support!! As an artist, I know I personally couldn’t have done it without our manager :D Really happy to hear that you liked the game!
2 years ago (+1)
Manager speaking, coordination is everything! A team of two doesn’t magically double output and that extends to a team of six (plus an extra musician for a last minute track and VA) My job is to get us as a group to as close as maximum effectiveness as I can and I’m super happy to be working with people that can make that happen with me!
2 years ago(+1)
Haha yeah, submarine speed was difficult to determine what felt right because we wanted to enforce exploration but also didn't want it to feel too sluggish. Thanks for the kind words and glad you enjoyed it so much!
As for the UI transition, it's just a bunch of anchored squares that squash and stretch! I attached some screenshots to show how I did it.
With so many people telling us that Out of Depth could be it’s own game and my own head full of ideas we are genuinely making this exact consideration. It might take quite a few months and will probably involve starting from scratch so that everything can be exactly as we originally had imagined. Thank you for playing and we’re glad you enjoyed it!
Thanks for checking out my submission! That behaviour was intentional but for some reason the worm doesn't close in more to hurt you and then push you out of the circle - for some reason if it catches you it'll keep encircling you sadly lol. Thank you for playing and glad you found the loop interesting!
2 years ago(+2)
Thank you so much. As a new group with a lot of uncertainty moving forward into commercial products and "going legit" hearing this makes us more confident that we'll be ok!
Menus were one of the big challenges to design for us since our UI artist wasn't always on the same page as our programmer putting the art in. If we had an additional couple of hours we might've considered redoing them but this is what we had at the time. We'll be sure to put visibility and ease of use further up the list of priorities moving forward. Thank you so much for playing our game!
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