Yooo this might be the prettiest and best game I've played on this Jam so far.
Things I loved:
- The music is so relaxing and entrancing.
- The graphics are very authentic and colour-pallet used is phenomenal. It felt very alien. The orange/yellow sea feels very otherworldly which I really liked.
- The animations were cool. I especially liked the player's death animation. Although it's really hard to die in this game.
- I really really really love the idea of roaming around an alien ocean on a boat, visitng different islands in search of treasure. The concept has such a child-like wonder to it and I think it was excecuted very well. Reminds me of Wind Waker.
Improvements
- The game feels very slow. The movement is slow, the boat is slow and the anti-gravity makes jumping a bit of a hassle. Perhaps that was the intention, but when you have so many islands to get to, and so much stuff to mine, it can become kinda tedious to move around.
- The game is very easy. There's enemies but they offer 0 threat to the player. It feels like they were included for no real reason.
- The gameplay loop of collecting gems can be a little bit repetitive. Although I'm sure you would've had more ideas given more time.
Overall I loved it! The game has a lot of potential and is probably one of the best games released for this jam!