Source Code: https://github.com/kiptok/trash-squid

cute but there's not much to it

Reeeaaally love the background and water effects. Try to trick jump over the boat and perfectly time a trash drop is a lot of fun.

I liked flying out of the water. Might be nice to have some sort of score system/timer so that there is a goal. Music fit perfectly! The squid animation was simple and cute :)

I had some graphical problems I think, but the movement mechanic was really fun! The music was pretty painfully loud- definitely have a look at that. Over all, it was really fun to play! Thanks!

love the idea, it's really satisfying to pick up the trash, with the sounds.

very hard to get off the boat when you land on it, I found it was easier to land on the boat to drop trash, than to fly over and drop it, b/c I usually missed. I suppose that's part of the challenge though, could be improved though. Great work overall, I liked it!

I had a fun time carpet-bombing the boat with trash.

I think dropping the trash is definitely the most fun part of this. I'd love to see more of that sort of thing in a game with this movement style - it was really satisfying to figure it out. Nice work!

That squid can get some crazy air! I had a lot of fun playing this. My favorite thing to do was to fill up on all the trash I could carry and try to dump it on that dirty old boater all at once! Thanks for sharing this!

This is a surprisingly fun game for how simple it is. I was initially just depositing the trash by sticking the tentacles up through the boat, but then I discovered you could air-drop it and that was great. Very inconsiderate of those boat people to keep throwing the trash back in again. I tried taking it to space instead but I think I jumped over the collision on the side of the level.

Neat Game. A lot of very cool ideas. The water getting more polluted as I failed to collect trash, was a cool effect. The controls are a little clunky but that’s not unusual in a game jam. All in all neat idea. Fun execution.

I played on my stream. You can watch the VOD here:
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1003360373?t=0h13m21s

Nice, I like the core mechanic, it's worth developing further!

At first I wanted to say I didn't like the looseness of the controls. But when I first dove out of the ocean like Echo the Dolphin I realized you have something really fun here. I would've like to see more done with jumping out of the ocean, maybe going through rings or dodging obstacles before dropping the trash on the boat. I love the trippy sky and water patterns.

It's a really good chilling game

Hey, nice little game! Good, creative (though sorta sad) interpretation of the theme.

I especially liked the controls, felt very fluid (pun intended!). Jumping over the boat and bombarding with trash was especially satisfying! (Yes, @roolow, _Echo the Doplhin_ feelings!)

The only ideas that come to mind are not necessarily good ones, but if you wanted to make the game feel more gamey, you could add some "records" to the game. "New highest drop on target: 12m", "New highest amount of trash on a single drop: 7".

Nicely done! I like the graphcis, theyre simple and effective!

Great chill game, was pretty fun doing jumps over the boat to drop off trash. Not sure if being able to spam the space button to go supersonic speeds was intended but it was fun, so it worked out.

Nice music and overall idea. It is very funny when i realize that i can jum hight into the sky. Controlls are very smooth.

The controls where a little bit harder to get the hang on and felt weird at first, but after the first time jumping over the boat it actually got quite fun! Loved to swim around to catch some trash. Missed some feedback on how much trash I actually collected. Was there supposed to be a highscore of some sort? The sound effect when dropping trash on the boat always felt like I was getting a lot of points... ;)

Interesting choice of music and background! :)

I loved racing my squid around the ocean. I basically would just spam space going so fast it was hard to pick up the trash. A score of some sort would be nice. Overall I really liked it!

Great idea with interesting gameplay, and the ambience is nice too! Maybe it will be more fun to play if can direct control the squid movement with directional keys.

Cool idea. I like the color cycle visual effect on the sky and ocean. The movement on the squid feels very fun, especially jumping out of the water, although it may be a bit silly looking to have the squid airborne, it's still fun :)

It was hard to get the trash on the boat because of the carried momentum, I wonder if it would be better to allow it to fall with zero horizontal velocity.

The sounds works and get the job done, the music is nice and mellow but also sounds like outer-space. (The ocean is almost like space in a lot of ways, so maybe it's fine)

It looks like the "fail-state" is just that the ocean becomes so polluted, the game is unplayable. It works in a kind of artistic way, as a player it's kind of anti-climactic and ambiguous. I'd suggest a score, or a message, or something, because it can also be interpreted as a broken feature.

Overall a good entry with potential! Good job!