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Bathyscaphe11 by j_peeba

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made by j_peeba for LD29 (COMPO)
Bathyscaphe11 is a fast paced top-down shooter. You are a lone survivor aboard a bathyscaphe and you need to go through a series of submersibles to clean up a mutant infestation! Game features multiple levels, different weapons and monsters as well as an energetic soundtrack!

You can listen to or download the soundtrack here as well: https://soundcloud.com/john-peeba/bathyscaphe11-soundtrack/s-W6MOi

This is my third LD game and it's my most ambitious one to date. The game took around 25 hours in total to make. Created with Unity3D, Photoshop, Aseprite and Ableton Live.

Here's a development timelapse video: http://youtu.be/pq4kEEi4mmM
Web http://peeba.gfxile.net/ld29/bathyscaphe11.html
Windows http://peeba.gfxile.net/ld29/bathyscaphe11_win.zip
Web alternative https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/3876730/ld29/bathyscaphe11/bathyscaphe11.html
Source http://peeba.gfxile.net/ld29/bathyscaphe11_source.zip
Original URL https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-29/?action=preview&uid=5503

Ratings

Coolness 73% 3
Overall 4.02 35
Audio 3.85 48
Fun 4.05 20
Graphics 3.86 165
Humor 2.88 295
Innovation 3.04 577
Mood 3.92 55
Theme 2.84 889

Feedback

shs
28. Apr 2014 路 04:30 UTC
That's a clever way of creating "shadows".
Hempuli
28. Apr 2014 路 09:31 UTC
The shadows looked amazing! At first it felt like the enemies were too tough, but once you started inroducing new weapons and enemies it got rather interesting! A tiny bug, I think: the enemies kept rotating slowly instead of looking at me when attacking.
馃帳 j_peeba
28. Apr 2014 路 09:52 UTC
Yeah. Enemy rotation was one of the things that sort of fell off my table when I was in hurry. :)
gabbsson
28. Apr 2014 路 11:05 UTC
Awesome game! Music really added suspense!
mtrc
28. Apr 2014 路 11:26 UTC
Fantastic! I love this kind of game. Enjoyed finding the secrets too - can't believe you did this all in two days.
Romko Pidstryhach
28. Apr 2014 路 11:33 UTC
This is epic:D. Reminds me of good old Doom. And these shadows - ingenious trick!
馃帳 j_peeba
28. Apr 2014 路 11:51 UTC
Hey, thanks for the comments! For the shadow trick I'll have to give credit for Teleglitch. ;)
gikdew
28. Apr 2014 路 11:56 UTC
I love that lighting style, its really nice! Great concept!
Zolkren
28. Apr 2014 路 11:59 UTC
Good game, reminds me of wolfenstein 3d for some reason.
qntnm
28. Apr 2014 路 12:07 UTC
Wow, the visual style is amazing (are they tall black walls the make the shadows?!), the murdering of enemies is satisfying and the little secret rooms are a great touch. One of my favourites this LD so far!
petrih
28. Apr 2014 路 13:47 UTC
Very nice music and a great game! Very hard to control the player with the trackpad. I have to try it again later with a mouse.
primaerfunktion
28. Apr 2014 路 13:58 UTC
Thats one hard game you've made here! Especiallly in the beginning when you enter the room full of those bad boys. It's really enjoyable though. Good work!
Scam
28. Apr 2014 路 14:29 UTC
Loved the assault shotgun! Great game.
Hypnohustla
28. Apr 2014 路 14:31 UTC
Solid shooter! Great mood and music. I wish the weapon sounds were a bit more powerful but that's a minor complaint :)
no.One
28. Apr 2014 路 14:47 UTC
Love the shadows, IA a bit dumb sometimes but great game !
pawegio
28. Apr 2014 路 14:53 UTC
This game rocks. Starting from interesting, storytelling tutorial and ending on awesome music. Very comfortable steering and game is very addictive (at first quite difficult, but after few deaths it's playable).
cageinabird
28. Apr 2014 路 14:58 UTC
Liked the variety of weapons and enemies. The reload feels slightly on the long side, but makes things more tense!
Recursiveanomaly
28. Apr 2014 路 15:19 UTC
Love it! Really fun gameplay. It was neat finding a bunch of different guns. Music was perfect as well.
Diptoman
28. Apr 2014 路 15:20 UTC
Welp, that was hard. @_@
Nothing new, but solid entry!
hhayk
28. Apr 2014 路 15:26 UTC
looks awsome
Split82
28. Apr 2014 路 15:45 UTC
Solid entry. Great controls.
xerohuang
28. Apr 2014 路 16:08 UTC
nice shadows and great game play. :)
mactinite
28. Apr 2014 路 19:11 UTC
Real fun, reminds me of the flood levels from Halo. The way you did the shadows was pretty ingenious. I never would have thought to do that.
Jools64
28. Apr 2014 路 19:50 UTC
Very solid top down shooter, great graphics, soundtrack and very fun game-play. I really liked the little messages on the ground too. Nice work!
zanenga
28. Apr 2014 路 20:13 UTC
Great game! And dat shadow trick! Hahaha, awesome!
Beep2Bleep
28. Apr 2014 路 21:56 UTC
I can't rate as I didn't make a game but GREAT JOB. I'm going to look at the source to see how you made it in unity3d.
jugglerrob
29. Apr 2014 路 04:30 UTC
Pretty cool. I made a game that was similar last Ludum Dare.
petrih
29. Apr 2014 路 08:32 UTC
Best game I've played so far! Well done!
BuKaneerz
29. Apr 2014 路 12:02 UTC
Awesome work !
I really like this "hotlinemiami" style, with really cool shadows, and these weird aliens !
Keep it up !
eufrik
29. Apr 2014 路 16:38 UTC
Awesome game! I like the shadow effect. Good job!
anbreizh
29. Apr 2014 路 21:42 UTC
Very nice game
SaintHeiser
30. Apr 2014 路 01:45 UTC
Nit bad but connection with theme lost.
Danvil
01. May 2014 路 12:42 UTC
Very good game! I like the aiming mechanism: if you keep the mouse near your character you can rotate quickly but inaccurately; if its further away mor accuracy and less speed.
Kate Kligman
01. May 2014 路 14:55 UTC
Loved the shadows and the music.
matt_j
07. May 2014 路 21:37 UTC
Shadows + lighting look good :)
Myyyvothrr
09. May 2014 路 13:20 UTC
Really fun to play, liked the music and the shadows!
mrbungle
09. May 2014 路 22:10 UTC
Truly awesome environmental graphics and good fun to boot!
Teesquared
10. May 2014 路 21:55 UTC
Difficulty is high but it kept me playing. Shadow trick is great and adds to the mood. The random accuracy thing didn't work for me. I had a hard enough time aiming :)
voxel
17. May 2014 路 20:36 UTC
I enjoyed the short, sharp levels. Some nice ambushes, and didn't feel like I got sent back too far when I died.