Very fun beach cleanup game! I love the feeling of scaling up the school of fish, though I expected that it would happen more gradually. I thought cleaning up the trash and watching it disappear was very satisfying, but the mechanics of pushing were very challenging and could use some tuning. Overall a good experience and a very complete game. Nice work on this!
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Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
Creativity | #482 | 4.019 | 4.019 |
Overall | #542 | 3.862 | 3.862 |
Style | #733 | 4.000 | 4.000 |
Enjoyment | #941 | 3.566 | 3.566 |
Ranked from 53 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?
As you play, your shoal scales up and you can deal with progressively larger rubbish!
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All music courtesy of Kevin MacLeod - thank you so much you legend!
"Captain Scurvy", "Deep Relaxation", "Ebbs and Flows"
Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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your game could have corresponded to two themes, that of scale and that of pollution. It's a really cool concept to see your sardine (and other fish that help it) evolve in the ocean and clean it :), the graphics are nice, the menu needs a little tweaking, the music is relaxing, great job!
Beautiful game, and even more so once the water is clean :-) took me a little while, but me and my hammerhead crew did eventually get the green shipping container into one of the nets on the boats. I'm a big fan of all the little easter eggs around the map, they really make it fun to explore, and I got lost twice in the kelp forests! I also have to say I love the wiggle of the great whites
Lovely atmosphere in this game, and a really good theme too! Nice work!
i'm so impressed you managed to make abzu / subnautica a like in 96 hours. The webgl lags a bit on my pc but it was amazing to play !
Very interesting :D I definitely felt like a little sardine trying to do the best I can against such a huge mess :) The game was for sure laggy and difficult to control with the mouse but the idea came across well regardless, great job!
Fun concept, loved getting bigger and bigger groups of fish, but started to become a bit laggier every time, close to unplayable when I got to the second pack of sharks.
Other than the performance issues, super cool game though! Felt very zen swimming around pushing trash. Fantastic effort for a 96 hour gamejam!
I was going to rate this, but it was really laggy and that made it unplayable sadly (looking at the shore makes it run alot better but theres barely anything there to collect), and it wouldnt be fair to vote without experiencing the game properly. Tried a couple more browsers I have, and none really fixed it
The screenshots look pretty good though and the game seems very relaxing, the ones who can play have found themselves a treat! I would appericiate a downloadable build when the jam ends though, that will probably run better
Similar experience to Jugan0. Thought it was just an issue on my device alone.
Would've liked to try the game since it sounds interesting
The game ran extremely poorly on my device, so I sadly couldn't play. However the visuals look really good! (Not rated as I couldn't load the game).
Very pretty! I got lost amassing a big gang of fish and didn't clean up anything haha. It was a bit laggy but I had a good time. Nice use of the theme, I really enjoyed the Katamari-like build-up of scale and then being able to zoom back to the OG little guy.
Of course, it takes time to load, did you see the level of detail in the graphics?
Patience is key, and in this case, it was definitely worth it.
Really well done!
Im surprised this runs so well in browser after the initial loadup! I didn't seem to find a way to consistently remove trash aside ramming into it and hoping it would move, but I enjoyed swimming around collecting a posse of an obsurd amount of fish!
Thanks a lot! We put a lot of time into optimisation so glad it's working out. Swimming around and exploring is much more important than the rubbish anyway - but if you want to swim around with cleaner water, the tires are a lot easier to push from inside and cleanup the water a lot faster (sneaky top tip)
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