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Beneath The Surface by tastyoishi

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made by tastyoishi for LD29 (COMPO)
Battle tight turning circles, the 1920x1080 wide ocean and the large variety (4) of ships. Fight to make your mark as an iceberg. (Or if on an older mobile device, fight the lag to fight to make your mark).

The world's (most probably) first iceberg simulator lets you experience the freedom of being a large, somehow mobile, block of ice.

Featuring an all original musical score, created in Rolling Tones by randomly mashing buttons.

Level up, sink the unsinkable.

Be the iceberg.


(Created by @stuartkentnz in construct2)
Web http://stuartkent.co.nz/beneath/
Source http://stuartkent.co.nz/ld48_Beneath_Stuart.zip
Original URL https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-29/?action=preview&uid=34524

Ratings

Coolness 33% 1823
Overall 2.94 788
Audio 2.94 442
Fun 2.59 923
Graphics 3.00 654
Innovation 3.00 596
Theme 2.94 823

Feedback

madalaski
27. Apr 2014 · 18:26 UTC
Fun, interesting and creative... but I'm not sure how it fits in with the theme...
Natman
27. Apr 2014 · 18:36 UTC
@madalaski The bulk of an iceberg is below the surface :)

@tastyoishi The music isn't bad, but the gameplay is pretty confusing with little explanation on how to play. I think it could use a better tutorial or simply more explanation. I didn't understand why my iceberg grew when it did, or why I floated over some ships, etc.

Good work on getting a game done, though! I didn't even participate this time around :P just trying to leave the best feedback I can for the ones who did. Good luck.
maffydub
27. Apr 2014 · 19:43 UTC
Quite relaxing - reminds me a bit of Solar 2 (http://murudai.com/solar/) with the gradual progression up to larger targets.

As Natman says, a bit more of a tutorial might be useful, or maybe just more obvious progress trackers (as it can take a while to get "level up" your iceberg).

Nice music!
mrexcessive
27. Apr 2014 · 19:47 UTC
Couldn't kill the aircraft carriers... maybe I need to be bigger first ? Like the look at also the music.
pattb011
27. Apr 2014 · 20:12 UTC
Nice music. It's quirky.Simple and interesting. And the under the surface part i understand.
ninjabit
27. Apr 2014 · 20:13 UTC
Love the music, but was a little confused as to what I needed to do / if I was doing something well.
Kimba
27. Apr 2014 · 21:19 UTC
Nice music but cant i lose or win? oO
Kar
27. Apr 2014 · 22:17 UTC
That's one pretty pissed off iceberg :D I like it. Had some problems with destroying bigger ships, but won after all.
Crawler Studios
29. Apr 2014 · 21:50 UTC
The iceberg is a bit slow but nice job. Cool idea.
jacobrb95
29. Apr 2014 · 21:57 UTC
Very creative. Has Potential.
SevenKingdomsSurvivors
01. May 2014 · 02:58 UTC
This was a neat take on the theme. I couldnt figure out how to consistently grow though. I got the point where I could blow up an aircraft carrier, and then I couldnt and I wasn't sure why. Nice try!
Coin Flip Games
01. May 2014 · 03:02 UTC
Prett good game. I got really excited when I got the polar bears!
Scruffylooking
01. May 2014 · 03:06 UTC
Nice idea. The iceberg moved like it was still glacial ice on my PC, but it was fun when I finally hit something small.
JimmyBoh
01. May 2014 · 03:25 UTC
I really like the original idea, just a few tweaks to the physics/challenges and it could be really addicting!
Switchbreak
03. May 2014 · 14:12 UTC
I won! This was pretty fun. The pacing was perhaps a bit too slow, and it was difficult to hit ships multiple times. I loved that polar bears show up on the iceberg after it grows.
wschorn
06. May 2014 · 20:55 UTC
really cool! I actually made a game really similar to this (search 'iceberg' to find our special club...)
Moosefly
18. May 2014 · 12:37 UTC
Shame, I'm only getting a white screen after pressing the start button. Tested on newest versions of Chrome and Pale Moon X64. Wouldn't even show the start button on IE :P.

Anssi@MooseflyGames.
frogcheese
18. May 2014 · 13:17 UTC
This seems like a cool idea (and a funny take on the theme) but I'm afraid I couldn't get it to work on my Mac. Both Chrome and Safari just show an empty blue screen with some music playing.
Jiddo
18. May 2014 · 14:44 UTC
I'm afraid I couldn't get the game to run here either. First I got stuck on a blue screen, with music playing. The next time I tried I got to the "Start" button. After clicking that I was stuck on a white screen. Chrome, Win7 x64.
zedutchgandalf
18. May 2014 · 18:23 UTC
This is a neat idea :)
I love it!
carrier_signal
18. May 2014 · 21:42 UTC
All I got was a blue screen
Lukbebalduke
18. May 2014 · 22:36 UTC
All I got was a blue screen 2.
misterwalter
19. May 2014 · 05:28 UTC
All I got was a blue screen after I hit start. 8(