I like the title screen’s design. Although the tides over and under letters can be a little too much - a few less might get the idea and work more effectively - It feels so dreamy and childlike, and like I can dive into this imaginary world and be carefree. (For those who can’t see, the letters are round-ish, and they look like they shine. The screen and text are in shades of blue. Around most letters there is a line resembling a wave or tide).
The story is also extremely cute and enticing. As soon as I read the summary, I fell in love with it. The theme and the mechanics and the story are immediately matching for a promising game.
I can’t wait to play it once I find my earbuds that are unexpectedly missing - but I think VibeVerse might be right: some background ocean sounds would be a great addition.
Edited to add: Amazing sound design, tied to the setting very well. I agree with Jaogwal and VibeVerse that we could use some more sounds for immersion in the background, or moving swimming/swishing sounds, and I’ll even add audiodescriptions for passing by interesting decorative hotspots, like “You go past a school of Amazon puffer fish”. Sort of like a trip in the ocean. For a more relaxing experience; I doubt that’d work with higher difficulty levels.
I had a question about the score: I hear it say I was just “under 300”, but I was complimented on it. I don’t know exactly my score, and i wish I would know it. Since you recorded all of your voice lines I can see how impossible it’d be to achieve that, unless you found a way to match like “396” - knowing that a three in the hundreds house would read as “three hundred”, a 9 in the tens house would read as “ninety” and a 6 in the units house would read as “six”. Maybe that way you’d be able to let us hear our total score by combining things around, but it might be a ton of work for little reward. I just felt that was a bit confusing, as I don’t know what the meaning would be. Of being “under 300”. Plus if I get a slightly better or slighty worse score next time I wouldn’t know.
Amazing concept, great work.