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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Gameplay | #5 | 2.907 | 3.250 |
| Atmosphere | #7 | 3.578 | 4.000 |
| How well the theme was used | #13 | 2.683 | 3.000 |
| Writing | #13 | 1.565 | 1.750 |
Ranked from 4 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
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As much as I wanted to play this as it reminds me of a really old mermaid game called Water that I loved, the game chugged along on my laptop at 10fps and I'm not sure why. :-(
:-( So sorry about that (I should have known really as while it did run well on my machine, the fan always got a little noisier).
Due to time I didn't get to optimise it much, but I will fix it and attach a version after the jam is done. Hopefully you can check out if you get the time to look at it again.
Many many thanks for checking it out though.
I definitely will come back to it soon, I very much want to play it. ^^ We need more mermaid games in the world!!
Hello Drone Garden Studios,
I just wanted to let you know that I have added a lower res texture version of the game, I am hoping it will improve the performance.
Please feel free to check it out again if you have the time and the interest.
Many thanks once again,
Have a great holiday and new year!
Circumpunk
Hey just went back and played it, ran like a dream! ^^ This was very lovely, there was a great sense of mystery and curiosity with some dread mixed in. Not only did you get the fear of deep water in there nicely but you got the fear of cave diving mixed in too, as well as a sense of wonder at whatever the heck in in the deep ocean. I'd love to see this stretched out into a full game, its a very interesting world you've got going here!
Thank-you so so much for checking it out, I am beyond glad you enjoyed it! You made my christmas with that hehe.
Ooooh I honestly hadn't thought about building on this but I definitely would enjoy fleshing it out into a bigger puzzle experience :-D.
Many many thanks once again. Have a great and fantastic holiday and a happy new year.
All the best.
Circumpunk
Thanks for submitting this! The sparkly sound design definitely made me feel like a mermaid. Also, I'll say that your movement system is impressively smooth considering the time limit.
Many thanks! Glad you had some fun with it. I wanted sound to play a big part about navigating through.
I thought about making everything brighter in general but as the sea bottom is very dark I thought I should stick with the darkness and give some clues through sound. I hope it wasn't too difficult to navigate.
Thanks again for checking it out.
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Many many thanks for checking it out! I am glad you had some fun with it.
I loved the models! It was a bit hard to find my way around sometimes because of the darkness and the fact that the environment is pretty homogeneous. But very cool so far, I managed the get the three keys. Adding the option to make them glow is also nice, I think it should be default.
Many thanks for checking it out!
Yep I was really torn, to be honest I should have passed it over for more play testing before I submitted it because I really couldn't figure out if I should have had the glow on by default. I am glad I left the hints in to be honest though so please don't hesitate to use them. Glad you had some fun with it.
Thanks again!
No problem, it's very hard to playtest games during jams! Congrats for the submission