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A jam submission

Unreal DepthsView game page

Brackeys Game Jam 2022
Submitted by StrikeLight — 2 hours, 58 minutes before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Theme#9632.3662.800
Graphics#9652.5353.000
Innovation#10442.1972.600
Game Design#10682.2822.700
Fun#10912.1972.600
Overall#10992.1832.583
Audio#13791.5211.800

Ranked from 10 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

How does you game fit the theme?
Most sharks are hallucinations which you need to avoid. Since they are hallucinations, they will not kill you, but instead stun you for a few seconds, and take your oxygen away.

Did you write all the code and made all the assets from scratch?
I wrote all the code. Sound effects are free ones from YouTube, and the pixel art was created by me, although some were inspired/based off existing pixel art.

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Comments

Submitted(+1)

I didn't realize there were sharks until I reached the surface.  It was odd though that I still drowned even when at the surface cause it seems you can't actually breach the waves and remove your regulator.

Submitted

This game has a bit of an interesting concept on the page, although I didn't really feel too much of it when playing.  I honestly ended up just going to one side forever and never really had an issue with the sharks unless I was looking around for something.  Which lead to it being relatively boring since in seemed like there was no limit and there was now way for the sharks to catch up.

Although the big shark did manage to jumpscare me a bit once which I was not expecting at all.  So that got me at least.  Although it didn't quite do anything, I'm not sure if I just got away before it could, or if it was messed up in some way.  But I never saw it again throughout.

Otherwise though I do have to say it sounds like there are a decent chunk of mechanics here in this game, unfortunately I never really interacted with them, due to the flashlight.  The cooldown not being visible made it a lot harder to plan around, but also the fact that you need to be still for it to l you actually flash the screen which make it a lot more difficult.  Mainly considering their were always shark chasing the character around.,  Which meant stopping was near instant death.  Well, death by drowning I guess.


Overall though, an interesting short experience of escaping sharks, and, hallucinations I guess.  I would be interested to see more of the mechanics mixing together at some point as well.

Developer

thank you for your feedback! you've given me a lot of things to work on and think about

Submitted

I'm a fan of pixel art so that caught my eye! good job there also the game play was hard to wrap my head around but it was cool once I got going! Theme is great to!

Developer

thank you!

Submitted (1 edit)

The game seems cool, but I think that many people would appreciate some kind of a web build next time so they would play in the browser. Good job!

Developer

True, and thanks!

Submitted

Kinda confused about how to play, wish there was more of an explanation/tutorial but it seems really cool!

Developer

Thanks! yea i should add a tutorial. But i added a how to play section in the game description

Submitted

Really interesting concept, hallucinations and sharks ! nice pixel art 

Developer

thanks!

Submitted

Really interesting concept, hallucinations and sharks ! nice pixel art