Well done. Amazing graphics as usual, wish you could put out a pixel art tutorial one of these days.

Really a great game, the graphics are subblime and the intro is hilarious. I have fun to play the game. I will probably replay this game later.

Seriously, I can't wait to pĺay a game that you fully complete and is 100% satisfied. This is awesome!

As always, amazing game, beautiful artwork and very innovative! Unfortunately I'm having some slowdowns here :( But a fantastic game anyway :D
Congratulations!

Awesome work. Love the game. Even I wish to see tutorial on
pixel art in future.

The kelp/seaweed effect on the walls and ground is great.

I hate you :(

I love this take on 'Minimalism', great play on words and great effort.. awesome fun to play.

Ridiculously great! Very beautiful game and interesting game play!

Amazing graphics and very back and forth strategic game play that makes it a lot of fun but also never loses its pace. Nice job!

P.S. complete sarcasm, you are a magnificently talented son of a jerk, your graphics skills are speedy and detailed. I love your work, I aspire to be as great as you.

How do you create such an awesome art in such a short time?

Awesome game. I'm always amazed at the graphics work you have here. I agree that a tutorial from you would be very interesting.

A good game with an original concept, as usual.

Incredible.

Amazing. Great visuals (as usual), a subtle yet good BGM, and a surprisingly well implemented core mechanic.

Tu as laissé l'histoire de côté, enfin c'est juste qu'on ignore pourquoi et pour qui on part en guerre. ça se tient quand même.

ça me rappelle une scène dans une BD ou film (je ne sais plus) où tout un bataillon de bleuzaille est équipé d'un fusil, et le héros se retrouve juste avec un drapeau (ou un tambour..)
Il y a aussi le film Stalingrad, où c'est : un fusil pour deux, et une balle dans le dos pour les trouillards.

A l'inverse, il y a le film "Secret Defense" de Dany De Vito, une histoire vraie d'un projet de conception d'un char de transport de troupe, qui se retrouve sur-équipé à cause de l'entrain et l'idiotie de plusieurs généraux, poussant le budget au delà de 4 milliards de dollars, pour un char inexploitable et peu sûr.

Oui j'aime bien cette idée d'une armé low-cost !
Le reste est parfait, comme d'habitude tu ne va pas manquer compliments là dessus j'en suis sûr.

Good as always, some slow down. Even if I didn't really like it, the music fit well the atmosphere.

Nice premise and super polished. Solid gameplay too. Good job!

I uploaded a hotfix: you can toggle LOW quality mode using L.

/applause

What else can be said? :)

Stop being so good!

Meme s'il n'y a pas d'histoire, on ne peut que aimer. Je ne suis pas fan des jeux ou il fuat juste tuer et faire des combos,mais la tout dans le jeu (graphisme, musiques, textes, musiques) m'incite à recommencer encore et encore.

Tu est un magicien de l'informatique. Bravo !!!

Wow! This is unbelievable in only 48 hours. Such high production values and awesome graphics :O.

Excellent! Just a bit disapointed, less fun than usual, but the art is awesome.

Lovely graphics (as usual), interesting gameplay.

Amazing game! +1 for a pixel art tutorial some day!

Amazing visuals! The game play is also very nice!

Do we really need to rate this game ?

Beautiful graphics and fantastic gameplay. :)

This is a great game as usual, the intro is very fun.

really good game, as usual :)
A bit disappointed about the one life thing, i don't think it fit the genre, and doesn't encourage exploration.

Awesome, very fun to play!

This game is awesome!
I like how you turned out the theme ^^
I love this type of pixel-art, and how the different sprites and animations are coherent, this participate a lot on the global mood of the game.
The audio is also great, and the dialogs are hilarous!

My best score is currently 24 615, but I'll keep trying :D

Very nice.

Really liked it, but thanks to the 'you only have one searchlight' I keep on dying around 6500 points :P

My best score was so bad it doesn't even warrant posting. I really liked this game, though. Graphics and sound are amazing. Not sure how related to the theme it is but that's besides the point, well done!

Score 3250: Amazingly polished as usual. Nice concept too. Looking forward to the timelapse.

Really great graphics as usual :) And great use of the potato.

its a nice game sure but what is the clink with the theme ? except the name of the player .....

This entry is really polished, as expected, and the game mechanics were interesting and fun. I wouldn't call it particularly minimalistic, but it's a nice entry anyway.

My first score: 34430 B-)

14255

Love the combo system that encourages you to get a bit risky even with one life... and the whole idea of the two subs with different skills is SO GREAT! Graphics are gorgeous, the music is really fitting (and rad), and the lighting effect is superb. Being able to jump up out of the water is a blast. ;)

14125
Really cool like always

If there was a king of Ludum Dare. It would be this dude

Pixel art is top notch, as usual. Mechanics are great. Music fits and sets the mood. Overall its a really good game, but honestly I expected nothing less :)

Only 3090. I am bad at combos.

Scored 2435. Was a great game, as expected. Gameplay was smooth, graphics were great, music was all right and fit the mood. My only real qualm is how minimalistic this really is. Oh, but then again I suppose minimalism is stripping down to the essentials, even if those are lights and a gun. XD Good job once again. :)

Really nice polished game some solid gameplay. Keep up the good work!

Scored 15010 on my second attempt , I really enjoyed it , great work

Cool pixel art and music!
Good job!

Putting aside if it's theme related or not, the quality is over the top again! Well done!

C'est un bon jeu et les graphismes sont très bons - surtout en 48h. Par contre, ce serait bien si tu expliquais comment le sous-marin tire. J'ai passé 5 minutes à chercher le bouton tir. J'ai pensé que c'était la flèche pour avancer avant de me rendre compte qu'en fait le sous-marin tirait tout seul quand il arrivait à portée de tir.

Nice work! The story-beats are great.

Assez magique, il faut l'avouer !

As always, amazing work. I like the use of the theme too, haha :)

Great game man. You did it again. You managed to combine your awesome pixelart with minimalizm theme without sacrificing any of those. Intro is fantastic I love all the small touches (character names!).

I love the whole game, spend a long time playing it and be amaze by...arf many things!
My only "negative" feeling is that i find the gameplay of relationship between Minnie and Maslim a bit...unbalanced. If Maslim can shot down walls and enemies, it rely too much on Minnie(she got, after all, the light) for acting while she can safely do a lot of things alone(understand: without beeing accompanied by Maslim.)
Anyway, great work and game!

Very good graphics!

That was great (as usual?). I kinda gave up after a while, but I had a killer combo going. 55650

I have one question : Minimalism was the theme, how did you use it?

I mean beside the names of the characters. It's like you make a game but you don't play the game, if the theme was "no weapons allowed" would the characters be named "noweap" and "onsallowed"?

Perfect, as ever !

Excellent concept with an excellent realisation as always. A two player mode could be fun!
Although, the theme is a bit light.

Ye gads, this is a great game. Dang! It was so fun to play and polished. I'm looking forward to more LD entries from you! :D Great art, great EVERYTHING! The only thing missing was a cool music track for your timelapse haha.

Really great idea and neat graphics.

Amazingly well done... I mean with everything and stuff! :D

12735
Really cute graphics.
Nice interpretation of the theme.
Interesting "single player co-op" gameplay
Keep up the good work.

Great game thanks.
My first thought was 'Looks too good to be bad'.
Would b nice to see 2 hands feature when u can take wasd Minnie and arrows for Malism or vice versa.

Once again, a great game. You know your stuff!

great art, as always, and a nice game overall :3

As usual you make a great game. No complaints here

The game is quite cool, I enjoyed playing it. It's just a shame the theme wasn't taken much into account..

@AnnaGavaldaKedavra > I chose to focus on gameplay to fit the theme: a shooter with minimal equipment that forces you to play in a different way (1 gun & 1 light & no powerup). I do agree that it's not 100% fitting the theme, maybe I should have made a minimalistic looking game too?

Looks very polished, fun to play too! Got a pixeljunk shooter vibe from it, which is always a good thing :)

That's what i was delicately implying. It's a shame but your game is so polished, and with the nonexistent link to the theme, someone could think you began working on it (the concept) way before the time. I find it disappointing cause your game is great and i'm sure you're a fair fellow. Also i don't like when someone gets so many positive comments.

Nice game! graphics are very pretty as always. Every LD you make an awesome game.

Incredible.

Really enjoyed this. The switching mechanic was fun although having to completely restart on losing one life is a little severe. Graphics are stunning! Didn't see the connection with the theme. Overall: thought it was fab!

Love the eco the dolphin reference :)

Was kinda hoping you'd tone the visuals down for this one. Excellent work as always.

Love this game. The Atmosphere is amazing and the graphics are sick. Kudos!

I agree with CappaGames... ring on some pixel art tutorials! As always, I really enjoyed your game. Keep up the good work.

Definitely enjoyed this coop game. Ended up playing as the scouter as much as possible until I hit a few barriers that needed to be shot.

great graphic, the game is nice to play but perhaps too hard for me... I died too many times and it's frustrating to restart all

What a fun game! Love the graphics and smoooth controls. Fun gameplay mechanic as well :)

I'm sorry i can't tell you much that could help improve the game, I'm not skilled enough yet, but here's some clues :
- I don't like to have to move 2 entities (I don't have a brain that handle this correctly) but the core gameplay is fun so
* I think the game could be a (very) great coop game with 2 players
* keeping one player it could be usefull to have one submarine auto-follow the second (this would prevent to keep swapping every time just to make the submarines go forward)
Thanks for the game !

@AnnaGavaldaKedavra > I couldn't agree more with you :)
My main problem with this LD was exactly that: I usually do my best to fit the theme, but this time, "Minimalism" was like my "kryptonite" theme. Exactly the kind of thing I find hard to do :)

So I tried to make a gameplay out of it, but pretty much failed to do it.
What is fun is that, this time, I actually didn't look much at the theme voting rounds, just to be able to start the LD without any preconceived idea.

I actually really should have paid more attention :)

Thanks for your honesty

Awesome game!

Solid entry :)

Awesome quality. Nice.

High quality entry as always, top-notch graphics, and a big plus for the cut scene! The game felt very polished and the steering felt good, I liked that you could jump out of the water. However, switching back and forth between the submarines made the game a little too slow paced imo, one idea might be to assign one submarine to wasd and the other to the arrow keys. Just a thought. I think the game fit the theme pretty well with the budget-cut backstory, although I admit that it might feel a little shoehorned in. :P I do enjoy seeing games that try to approach the theme in gameplay and not just visual style though. Nice work! :)

Wow, I really liked this one! Impressive graphics and a good sense of humor! And the game play does have potential with those two ships. Very well done! Absolutely dig this pixel art!

o_o Incredible work for 48 hours

61 570.(I didn't finish the game)

No really "Minimalist" but amazing.

Superbe !

Aw, I died at a score of 26,000. Very fun, amazing graphics, amazing audio, and more of the same. Great job as always Deepnight!

So good, again.

Good atmosphere and visuals as usual!
Also the theme farfetched as usual=(
Good game, anyway :^)

Great game and visuals, but as you stated, not really a connection to theme. And a bit too easy, because you can push enemies with the invincible ship where you want to have them.

Ok, just like I did with some other games so I gave the game a second try.
What I have to say is : the graphics are great as usual. The music and sfx are also great. The game is polished and well designed and it is just 'complete'. I mean it is a complete game like you could actually buy.
The game mechanics are interesting and work well. So this is a work of great quality. To conclude this is maybe one of the most polished entry of the Ludum Dare contest.
Now I've said that, there are a few things that keep bugging me. First of all I think somehow the game does not fit the theme so well. Or I fail to see how. But that's a very subjective thought.
Secondly, frankly I just didn't have so much fun playing to it. While I just kept playing to Strike of Rage and Atomic Creep Spawner, this one is a little bit slow. I mean it is a colorful universe but I find it misses something. Something that was at the core of your last LD entries something that made your entries so fun to play. Is it rhythm? Is it the lack of goals? I don't know.
But like I said all this is highly subjective and Budget Squad is still a very very good entry. Keep doing awesome stuff, mate :)

nice nice, everyone said everything already :)

When I first heard the theme, my second thought was "I hope deepnight does not go for a minimalist art style this time." Really glad you did not! It felt a bit like an highscore version of Ecco The Dolphin. Great game.
Oh, my first thought obviously was what kind of game I would design.

Your pixel art is absolutely amazing and incredibly stylish! Unfortunately, the gameplay was definitely not as good as in your previous entry. The amount of work for 48 hours is still impressive, anyway.

Well, poop, this is amazing and everything else others have already mentioned. I second the notion for using WASD for one ship and arrows for the other. That could have allowed for more aggressive enemies and generally, more over-the-top action (ala the The Expendables). Anyways, fantastic work. When people start saying this isn't good enough because your former entries are better--that's pretty ridiculous, haha. 6:

Great fun, very humourous, and fun coordinating the two subs. Excellent art and audio. All round amazing, Well Done =]

What. How did I even find this. This thing in incredible, just chilling around at Ludum Dare, no big deal... this thing is insane. This game is the REAL DEAL! FanTASTic graphics, incredible gameplay and level design... bravo!

Great style and execution. Very well done!

Great Game : 43460

Graphics are amazing as always. Pretty fun gameplay as well. Interesting take on the theme, too. Good work :)

My 3rd Ludum Dare and the 3rd time your game has been awesome, especially love the graphics. My high score was embarrasingly low, so I'll keep it to myself

Wonderful. Great graphics and audio, nice core mechanic. I think for a fuller game you'd need to rethink the dependencies. I would also love me some co-op.

Very nice. The graphics were sick. Absolutely nuts for 48 hours. Well done.

sweet visuals :]

Love the graphics, plays well.

Really nice game. It made a lot more sense as soon as I realized there was a combo to sustain :P suddenly went form being really precious to absolutely throwing my life away.

Finised with 161350 points.
Great game :)

FANTASTIC. I love the art, and the intro. I wasn't able to get too far without dying, but I think I'm gonna keep at it until I beat this one.

Once again an excellent game. Well done.

Clever idea. It would be great to play two-handed though.

Amazing graphics

Really nice and polished game as everyone is used to. It didn't seem to fully embrace the theme, but I liked playing it a lot.

Fun, fun, fun.

123,255 for me. Great graphics, as usual. Music is nice, and the sound is decent. Great job!

Way too awesome! ~30k for first try, but I'll probably play a lot more later.

Amazing game! Great graphics, great gameplay. Love it!

Pretty cool game. Sexy as graphics.

Im not a fan of the switching between subs thing, I dislike that kind of gameplay in games. Id rather just put a light on the gunboat and play, then id have enjoyed it a lot more.

Really like the game, although I'm no real fan of "play two chars at once" games.

56615! I think I was so close to the end but a laser got me :(
Graphics are incredible, love the gameplay mechanic!

Amazing, I love your graphics :P the only problem is that it has really nothing to do with the theme..

Absolutely loved the graphics and the gameplay concept was well executed.

Nice concept of using two submarines with different abilities. It would have been neat if you could control both at the same time, eliminating the need to press space to switch between the two.

13,720, not very impressive, right?

Awesome game as usual, good gameplay, excellent graphics, and I love how you cheated the theme. Oh and it's quite humorous as well.

Outstanding graphics! Too bad there's no two player mode, it would be rad!

Great story coverage and humor.
The mechanism also works really well.

Very cool idea that leads to a smooth and fun gameplay

Why are you so good? :p
There's one thing I didn't like about the game, how the subs would continue to float around even when you're not controlling it. This made it very scary near the end laser area.

imo not really fits the theme, but anyway this game is beyond awsome! one of the best!

Beautiful demo! I even enjoyed the red hue when dying. If you continue to develop this, I felt like my interest and content was interrupted when switching between subs. The intro dialog tickled me. When I started, I was expecting the orange torpedo sub to have a limited supply of ammunition and resources. They actually seem to be very powerful subs. One is invulnerable and the other has a lot of torpedoes.

Absolutely love the graphics and the theme, an extremely polished game for such a short time. :)

Beautiful game! Great art style, cool graphics, awesome gameplay. Incredible job doing this game!

Waouw, Impressiv work for a LD. A complete game. You was really alone ??? Impressiv.

Amazing graphics, how did you even do this in so little time?? The game was really cool too! :)

Best 8075. I might try harder later. But really cool game. I liked it. Good job :)

awesome -- amazing work in such a short time -- my hat is off to you -- great hob

Managed to get 42,000 and will definitely be playing this lots more later. This is one of the most beautiful, polished and fun games of this LD in my opinion. Really fantastic work.

This is stupid. You're telling me it took you 48 hours to make this!?! Psshh... weak. Do better next time. (Yeah, that will teach him to make and absolutely amazing game in 48 hours and making me feel like I should stick to mopping bar floors with my face, as that's what my skills amount to.) This game made me feel pretty crappy about myself, which is actually a complement in the highest regards. This game is amazing... :(

Cool. Wait for post compo version with sound.

Awesome job, as usual.

Well done! Graphics are sweet, game has humor, and it's great take on theme. :)

Didn't believe this is a legit compo entry until I saw the timelapse. Crazy good!

cool, I loved it , i feel inspiration with this one!

Good game! Beautifull graphics and a interesting gameplay!

I just may be sold on learning Haxe!

Really good, as usual. :) I thought the two-sub idea was clever, and it was fun, though when I accidentally died, I didn't really want to start all over! Graphics are fantastic.

Beautiful graphics, fun gameplay and nice story! :)
Very good game! :)

Your graphics make me slobber over my tablet. I have to say that this game wasn't my cup of tea this time, but I enjoyed it for what it was: a straight rompin' exploring-shoot-'em up.

I think this game is incredible for a 48 hour time frame. It really looks complete with the great graphics and the funny intro. Also it's fun to play with the interesting game concept.

Another great entry. Well done!

What you did here is simply brilliant. And I love submarines ^_^

Absolutely loved this! Final score was up around 180k (see screenshot), but I could have done better. Before that, I died shortly after the potato with 160k, so if I'd planned more I definitely could have gotten 200k if not 250k. Amazing game, the combo meter made me play in some interesting ways (sending the spotlight way ahead to lure in tons of red mines). Looks and sounds beautiful as well. Great take on the theme. I think this is the highest set of ratings I've given.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/356324/budgetsquadhighscore.png

Awesome game! Incredibly tight production and fun as hell. The story made me laugh like crazy

I'm kind of in a hurry, so I didn't play until the end, but the graphics are good as always. Don't worry, I won't give you an overall five just because of your graphics. I'm pretty positive you must hate that.