This was quite enjoyable to play.
The view controls really helped to take it slow.
Could do with some anti aliasing though, the grass is especially affected by missing AA.
After some time wandering around the music loop ends and doesn’t restart
An in-game timer and a more complex scoring/medal system was planned, though due to time constraints didn’t get done.
(feels like half the time I put in was on the last day; need to improve planning and motivation)
The long slowdown/bullet-time when an enemy is destroyed took me out of the flow of movement every time; it felt a bit like being punished for hitting targets.
Target spawned right on top of me multiple times, would prefer them to have a bit of distance.
It is a bit hard to gauge distances when jumping and moving; adding shadows might help here.
I’m not sure how to improve it, but whenever I wanted to focus on my mirror image I kind of lost track of where I was and got hit; so to get a high score I just solely focused on my player character, completely ignoring the upper half of the screen.
Love the concept.
Would be cool to be able to rotate independently of the current main thrusters, this might give some more control to perform maneuvers.
Pretty neat.
The bubble effect seemed to move with the character/camera though; pinning this to the background would likely increase orientation and the feeling of speeding upwards.
Why does the otter want the orange rocks? I need to know.
I didn’t recognize that some of the fish can hurt you; until it was too late and I died. Maybe some more visual separation would have helped me.
Would love to have some feedback if you are actually hitting anything. It’s not really obvious if or what you are hitting.
I feel it would have been beneficial to separate the walking and shooting directions; make it a dual stick shooter.
That is great to hear.
I aimed to capture the essence of a relaxing, warm spring day. The return of the sun and warmth after a chilly winter.
As this is how I felt when the jam began.
Thanks for the kind words.
It did take long hours and nights to get this done in a week; the project, source code and blend files look accordingly chaotic.
Got a possible fix for the web crash ready, but haven’t gotten a response to the request to update it yet.
Great to know that you had a good experience.
My learning objective was focused on creating and utilizing 3D assets, which may have led to the oversight and lack of time for other aspects.
Thanks for the feedback.
Will see that I add some in-game instructions when I get to updating this.
Basically, when you start out, you can only get to the mid range islands.
After completing the first few missions you will get access to upgrades, which allow you to go higher and lower, as well as a harpoon in the end.
Only issue I had was that the listed gamepad controls didn’t seem to work correctly.
I could not select any menu entries with my xbox controller, navigation worked fine.
I was really missing some punching sounds, in line with how the character animates.
Interesting concept having to balance the life of parasite and host. Well done.
