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A jam submission

Turtle lifeView game page

Try to help the small turtle to survive 💚
Submitted by ᴅᴠ ᴍᴏᴀᴍᴇɴ ❄️ — 7 days, 2 hours before the deadline
Rated by 20 people so far
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how the game fits the uplifting theme?
Protecting ocean life and keeping the sea clean. 🌊

how the game fits the ocean theme?
The game takes place in the ocean, where the turtle swims and avoids pollution 🐢

please If you used any per-made assets or AI generated content credit them
All game assets were made by me but AI was only used to fix bugs and improve some effects

Can you vote for other entries during the voting period? How many?
Yes of course !

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Submitted

Pretty simple game. I think I also played the other turtle game with same kind of mechanics.

Actually there is no challenge at all and so I was bored after 800 points

Submitted (2 edits)

It's a nice game, thank you.

I have to say - the sound waves were a pain to watch (literally an eye strain). For me they served nothing else but to make the game harder. Maybe if there is a higher resolution image that problem would disappear.

I think the decision to use the seaweed for both healing and scoring made the game too easy. If you separate the two (decouple) it would be more challenging => more engaging.

Let's image for a moment that this is a full game, not a prototype. The current way the game works would be one of the modes - an endless mode. For the default gameplay a more interesting mode would be to have levels with some predetermined score to pass the level. And ideally add some leveling up system to upgrade the turtle - speed, hit points, etc. Basically the design of the game would follow a stepwise difficulty curve - each level would be more difficult but the turtle would be more capable.


Possibly - you can make the different items fall with different speeds. That would make it more interesting. Right now it seems everything falls with the same constant rate. Maybe the first (or two or three) level(s) can be with a constant speed. But then switch it up.

To be honest I intentionally made the turtle die (yes, a horible thing!). Just to see the end screen and be done with the game. I mean - I also hit pause but I needed to see how the game finishes too!... please don't disqualify me...

Good luck!

Submitted

its okay, i only have two criticism. first, there is no challenge at all. It stays the same from the very first minute, without introducing any greater challenges. Another issue is the lack of more engaging visual feedback; there are significant gaps between the feedback cues that do appear. Something like a combo meter would help a bit.

Developer(+1)

Thanks for the honest feedback I really appreciate it. You're right about the difficulty curve and the visual feedback I'll work on adding progressive challenges and more punchy visuals like a combo system in the next update!

Jam Judge(+1)

Nice and simple. There’s two easy-ish ways you could make it more interesting: Randomly vary the speed of the falling things, and have the difficulty ramp up until it slowly becomes impossible. Without that difficulty ramp, players’ only choice is to play until they leave out of boredom, which is not the feeling you want to inspire in them! (for me, boredom took over at 5000 points)

Developer

Thanks a lot for the great advice Randomizing the speed and adding a difficulty ramp sound like awesome fixes to keep players engaged. I'll definitely implement these ideas so no one dies of boredom at 5000 points again!

Submitted

nice game, simple and fun to play

Developer

Thanks bro

Submitted

cute game! Easy to understand and play.  I wish there was more ramp in difficulty, but the still a fun time.

Developer

Thanks

Submitted

I reached 1000 score! It's always nice to see handmade assets in a game jam game.
Gameplay is simple, but well themed and classic. Fireworks shoot out at point milestones. I wish something cooler happened at further milestones.

Developer

good job and soon it will be more better 

Submitted

it is funny and I love it. 

Developer

Thanks bro 💖

Submitted

Great game, but you need to develop it more and more, like adding a store, and make the game's currency turtle weed. And please, try my game called Ocean Depths and give me your rating.

Developer

Thanks bro for your support and for my game I just wanted to keep the game simple and easy but soon it will be better