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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Gameplay | #2 | 4.333 | 4.333 |
| How much do you enjoy the game overall? | #3 | 3.944 | 3.944 |
| Visuals | #4 | 4.056 | 4.056 |
| Overall | #6 | 3.578 | 3.578 |
| How well does the game fit the themes? | #8 | 3.944 | 3.944 |
| Audio | #23 | 1.611 | 1.611 |
Ranked from 18 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
How long was your dev time?
4 hours :(
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Definitely wasn't expecting to see a mermaid themed game for distractions of all things, though it makes sense based off the legends of sirens and stuff so it's an interesting way to approach it. And it's pretty nice game loop, it was quite difficult trying to balance all the ships in a circle, and also trying to avoid them going all the way across the screen sometimes. Since that was a death sentence a lot.
My general strategy ended up being flinging them back where they came from, so a LOT of people probably were very confused when they landed back at their start point after hearing some very nice music. But hey, they were alive.. only to uh, come back and die.
Overall though real nice for four hours, especially the art style being pretty consistent was nice. Along with the fun of spinning all the ships.
First off thank you for the kind and detialled comment, this is very kind :)
We had a few ideas in mind, but I really like not taking the most obvious route when being given a theme.
We also though about making the game into a corridor so that the ships would need to go from one side of the screen to the other, but having ships come from everywhere at once seems more and chaotic :D
So yeah, sending the ships back to where they came from is a valid strategy, even though that means a lot of very confused sailors for sure
Anyway, thank you for playing and for the kind words :)
really fun game, although sometimes tricky/impossible
Yeah, the boat really like to go straight for the rocks, giving you only a coupe seonds to act. This is not ideal but does not break the game so we decided to focus our efforts on other things :)
really fun game
Nice game
thank you ! :)
Wow, what an impressive game for this kind of Jam! The and mechanics are unique and pretty cool. Awesome to see that someone can complete something like this with the time constraints, even at four hours. Way to go!
Thank you so much, this truly means a lot ! <3
We really enjoyed this! Unique take on the "distraction" theme where the distraction is actually a good thing! Would love to play again with sound.
That is such a kind thing to say, thank you very much, its means a lot ! <3
Yours was great too !
Really fun game, the controls feels nice and the gameplay works well! I hope you'll continue a little to add a version with sound !
Well done =)
Merci! We are considering adding more feature to the concept because there were quite a few idea we had to scratch due to time (and sound of course)
Fun gameplay and good visuals. It's a shame there's no audio. Overall pretty good :)
Thank you ! <3
Nice game but sadly the audio part is missing
Yeah, we were planning on addimg some but ran into tehcnical issues when adding song, so we focused on the other aspects.
Thank you for playing though ! :D