Loved the game! And the music was just beautiful! Liked the shanty.
The only thing for me was that the tenticles were a bit hard to control.
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Krak'em's itch.io pageResults
| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Audio | #3 | 4.261 | 4.261 |
| Overall | #4 | 4.009 | 4.009 |
| Creativity | #5 | 4.217 | 4.217 |
| Technical | #10 | 3.696 | 3.696 |
| Visuals | #20 | 4.261 | 4.261 |
| Gameplay | #26 | 3.609 | 3.609 |
Ranked from 23 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
Message from the creator(s):
Whack, Smack and Snack in this Kraken Simulator
Rule
Rule B
Only used the colors in the greyscale
Theme
No
This game does not follow the optional theme
Original Art
Yes
Created own art
Original Audio
Yes
Created own audio
Comments
Hey!
I have some feedback!
To start off, good job on making the ships give the player more time. However, maybe instead of increasing the time by 5 seconds, they could give something like 7-12?
Also, it was really annoying when at the start of the game my arms would just get stuck due to weird collisions on the "thing" holding the arms ( happened on other occasions too ).
Lastly, would be cool if there was some kind of special ship that gave more points for beating it.
This is my high score:
Edit: good job on the music too!
3 years ago(+1)
Thanks for taking the time to leave such good feedback! We really appreciate it.
I like the idea of increasing the time given per ship eaten. I also really like the idea a "bonus ship" that gave more points. I think that would add a really fun, and new element to the game to have them show up every now and then and franticly try to eat one. We talked about maybe adding some sort of flying hot air ballon, but just ran out of time. The original idea for the game actually started off as you playing as a lighthouse, spotting monsters for ships as they passed bye, but after a week of working on that idea, we were finding it kind of boring. So we decided to scrap that and start over. We landed on the idea of playing as a monster and smashing/eating ships would be way more fun. The tentacles went through a lot of debate and changes in the final week of production, and I agree need much more tuning and play testing.
The sea shanty was an idea that the came in at start of the creative process and stayed with both versions of the game. All the music and sound was made, written, and performed by our talented sound designer Chris Sensebe.
I love the concept! The art and especially music are great as well.
The gameplay is fun, but I feel the controls could be iterated upon. Maybe I'm just bad, but I found that once I got the left tentacle tangled there was no way I could bring it back up. I didn't have this problem with the right one, and in general I found operating with it easier. I think it's because the tentacles actually are different - below is a screenshot of both tentacles pushed to the outside. Notice how they curve differently.
Still, great game, I think with slight post jam improvements it will really shine.
You're right, I misspoke slightly - the problem is not that they are not the same (they are), the problem is that they are not symmetrical. So the physics when moving them to the left are different than when moving to the right. But the movement you're doing with them is often symmetrical, so they effectively end up handling differently. It's a bit confusing, but I think the image I posted illustrates that pretty well.
3 years ago(+1)
Thank you!
Yes, we recorded and wrote custom lyrics for it :D
Will try your game out as well!
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