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Britt Selvitelle191 days ago(+3)

All I know is that I didn't get dysentery.

Wonderful art and music– very atmospheric. Really enjoyed the tone that was set and I found myself very absorbed in the game. Writing fits well within the genre.

A few bugs:

  • When someone dies, the name is repeated twice.
  • Clicking restarting after a failed attempt crashed the game
  • I got into an event just before I got to the bottom, but it seemed like the timer was still going and I didn't have to deal with the repercussions. It just switched to the end screen. Good for me, though! I made it to the bottom by the skin of my teeth! :)
  • What shader did you use for the subtle water effect?

Great work!

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Jamo190 days ago(+1)

Thank you for the feedback! We'll work on some of the bugs after voting ends.

Interesting thing, we actually didn't use any shaders! The submarine itself just alternates rotating 1 degree and -1 degree over a 4 second period, and the background is just a sprite I made in Aseprite using the built in dithering in gradients, which slowly moves down as the game progresses and moves 24 pixels left then resets on a loop to do the movement effect.

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Britt Selvitelle190 days ago

That's a really fun effect!

  •  I'm guessing that the viewport was bigger, then? Not pixel perfect?
  • I guess I need to look into how sub-pixel rotation works in Godot! I imagine at a small viewport size and viewport mode, it would have produced jaggies, but at a bigger size and canvas mode it does some sort of subpixel antialiasing that roduced the effect?
  • I'm curious– I had to deal with pixel art rendering for the scale mechanic in my entry, but I didn't play with rotation at all.

I picked up on the background sprite moving slowly, which I remember thinking was really subtle and clever.  Now that I'm thinking about it, were the bubbles done in the same way?

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Jamo190 days ago(+1)

The pixel art was made primarily in a 382x216 scale, while the viewport was twice that at 764x432. I think the Submarine's pixels were actually on that scale instead of the smaller scale. Should have been pixel "perfect" in that it scaled evenly, but when the rotation occurs there is some distortion that happens that coincidentally looked like water.

Bubbles are actually just GPU Particles! I spawn them along the X axis below the screen and apply negative X velocity to have them move left.

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Britt Selvitelle190 days ago

Very cool!

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