Seacat by LDJam user 410172

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made by LDJam user 410172 for Ludum Dare 57 (EXTRA)

They say cats don't swim, but they do dive! Plunge into the abyss with only your trusted submarine and two pointy ears to guide you.

  • Collect crystals to build your dream McMansion and get rich.
  • Interact with local wildlife, stack up some crabs.
  • Whole 2 endings!

WASD to control, space to grab.

Background

The decision to join LD was taken literally the day before, with no planning and after being out of gamedev for years. The idea was to simply have a finished project based on the initial concept, and get out of the comfort zone a bit.

Ratings

Given 14🗳️ 5🗨️

Feedback

digital bacon
22. Apr 2025 · 11:20 UTC
Very cute little game, good work!
gustavo.christino
26. Apr 2025 · 06:02 UTC
:flag_br:

![ending1.png](///raw/bc7/6/z/6c7d4.png)

Apertei os botões e soltei o que parecia ser um golfinho ou algo assim e coloquei uma pedra em cima de o que parecia ser um vulcão ou algo do tipo. Mas não consegui um segundo final. T.T Como faço isso?


Senti falta de feedback sonoro para o jogo, para entender e diferenciar os finais prometidos. Em geral o desafio me entreteve no início, mas ao saber de mais que um final voltei para tentar uma vez mais.

Foi divertido e até mesmo um pouco engraçado pegar um caranguejo.
gustavo.christino
26. Apr 2025 · 06:02 UTC
:flag_us:

![ending1.png](///raw/bc7/6/z/6c7d5.png)

I pressed the buttons and released what seemed to be a dolphin or something like that, and placed a stone on what looked like a volcano or something similar. But I couldn’t get a second ending. T.T How do I do that?

I missed having sound feedback in the game to help understand and differentiate the promised endings. Overall, the challenge entertained me at first, but once I found out there was more than one ending, I went back to try again.

It was fun — and even a little funny — catching a crab.
🎤 LDJam user 410172
26. Apr 2025 · 08:29 UTC
@gustavo-christino it probably would have helped if I'd put a tracker for the various whale tasks once you have done a few of them 😆

So the second ending requires 5 tasks to be done (spoilers below):

- Rescue the crying crab (stacking some crabs might help!)
- Scratch the itchy whale
- Rescue the trapped whale
- Bring the baby whale to the crying whale
- plug the oil leak

It's likely you've missed one, in retrospect I realise it is hard to know if you've done all or you missed something or the game bugged out.

Thank you for playing and the kind words, it's always very motivating. :)
gustavo.christino
26. Apr 2025 · 08:35 UTC
:)