Very good visually and cool concept for the movement, it controls quite well!
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Under the Sea: Godot Wild Jam #81's itch.io pageResults
| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Controls | #9 | 3.941 | 3.941 |
| Graphics | #10 | 4.490 | 4.490 |
| Theme | #11 | 4.373 | 4.373 |
| Originality | #17 | 4.176 | 4.176 |
| Fun | #18 | 3.922 | 3.922 |
| Overall | #34 | 3.630 | 3.630 |
| Accessibility | #41 | 3.275 | 3.275 |
| Audio | #148 | 1.235 | 1.235 |
Ranked from 51 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
Godot Version
v4.4.1
Wildcards Used
N/A
Game Description
Navigate the submarine with a harpoon gun only
How does your game tie into the theme?
An expedition to the bottom of the sea in search for the mythical black pearl.
Source(s)
N/A
Discord Username(s)
mulberg6521
Participation Level (GWJ Only)
1
Comments
This was really cool, was so focused on getting the hang of the movement that I didn’t even think to try harpooning enemies until I was almost to the boss. Managed to beat the boss by hanging toward the right and just safely harpooning him in the face as he passed by lol.
Really neat idea, and kind of awesome what you’re able to accomplish with just two colors, love it
I beat the boss! Would have liked some kind of ability to move faster, it felt kind of slow. Good work!
Omg, what a piece of art. The style is just amazing and it makes you truly experience and feel the underwater world. I just wish there was some music and audio, they would support the realism of the game. I'm really impressed with this entry, amazing job!
One small thing is that the boss fight felt a little too easy. It was just moving randomly without ever getting close to me.
Very cool game, I love the 1-bit style, it is really well done. You did a great job on the feel of the bathysphere as it moves, it really does feel like its underwater. This is all so atmospheric, it's begging for some moody music to go along with it. Great job with this!
This was really neat! I managed to soft-lock myself a number of times at first, but I think what I figured out was that I really needed to focus on holding the left mouse for the full trajectory of my movements. Switching to kind of alternating between hold the LMB and then tapping the RMB worked better. Without that it seemed like I would build up momentum and it could get out of hand very quickly until I was out of bounds. I played in Chrome on Linux in case that’s a factor.
Regardless, the visual style here was great, and the combined movement/attack systems was really clever. It’s a bummer you didn’t have any audio because everything else was pretty solid.
Nice job!
Yeah, exactly. Sometimes it would kind of bouncy around very quickly and then at least once for sure I ended up inside the wall (kind of tucked in a convex corner, about a full width of the ship in from the top and side). Once I was there it wouldn’t move at all. Something similar happened a second time when I was messing around to see if I could get it to happen again but I think the screen just went black (maybe I just went that far out of bounds?).
I just tried out again and it honestly seems a lot more stable this time around. I think I’ve restarted Chrome since then, so maybe that’s related. My best guess is that it has to do with the backward momentum when you shoot the harpoon. It seems a lot more subtle now. Maybe there’s some kind of initialization race condition that I got super unlucky with?
This was cool, I like the focus on minimal inputs, the momentum the bathysphere has makes it pretty satisfying to swing myself around corners, especially while also 360 no-scoping crabs.
The graphics are super nice too, I can appreciate a clean minimal art style that still gets across details. Love the touch of seeing the boss in the background as we got deeper too, like it's actually hunting us down.
Very nice game and art, but a little music and explanation of the powerups would have been nice. Also, I'm curious as to how you created the effect of the texture of the anchor rope expanding as the rope grows
This was the most fun I think I had with any game so far. Excellently executed. Awesome!
The game and graphics are cool! I miss some music, I know for the time we had that's perhaps too much for some of us. I barely noticed the lifebar on the lef bottom .... but it is interesting!
I like this game and think it could make a pretty good mobile app. It could do with some audio, but other than that, the only thing I'd change is make the controls tap/hold to go, release to stop.
Really cool concept! Though I didn't understand what all the items do the game it's enjoyable and with a good retro vibe
I would loved more input methods and perhaps at least a background music, I'll come back in the future if you are going to update the game
Thanks! I'm glad you enjoyed the game:)
The items were an afterthought actually. One is just for repearing the damage, and the other one is to boost the speed (to make the boss battle easier).
But now that I'm thinking about it, I should've cut that completely, and spend this time adding sounds instead.
As many people mentioned, the movement in the beginning is rather slow, so I could just boost the speed from the start. And the repearing stuff could just be an automatic one of before the boss battle.
Beautiful game and loved the level. My only complain is I wish there was more!
That's a really polish core mechanic, whenever I got damaged I felt it was my own fault and that's a good thing. Shame with the sounds, otherwise solid entry :)
Amazing game. Very intuitive and approachable. The control is simple yet elegant and I find the enemies does what it needed to do. The art is cute too. As per the other comments, I wish there was audio for the game as it would make it feels so much better. I had fun, nice game!
Cool art (especially loved the boss angler fish)! Pretty good game, and the idea for the anchor movement was really good! I didn't know how to damage the boss until I looked at the game page, and then I felt stupid lol. Awesome game, had lots of fun playing it!
I wish I moved a bit faster, but I loved the art style and the game idea, very unique. I also accidentally clicked past the ending screen. I also think audio would help a lot!
Beautiful art, great idea. I love the anglerfish! Had a lot of fun playing!






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