Sea Monster by flokitall

made by flokitall for LD33 (COMPO)

"Sea Monster" is a simple avoid & collect game in which you are a sea monster trying to eat divers while dodging mines.

Most of the development time went into polish and general mood (or at least an attempt at polish and mood), which meant I had to keep the gameplay pretty simple. The game has no ending (infinite fun :) ).

Written in Flash with FlashDevelop for code editing. Art assets were hand drawn in Photoshop. No sound effects, sorry!

Can also be played on Newgrounds:

http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/662537

Web	http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/662537
Windows	https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B13YaDrqxuOfak9xc2dGVUtJN0U/view?usp=sharing
Source	https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B13YaDrqxuOffjNCXzh3WlJCaExLR18wb01vc05vTXAzUlBJSDdyNnZZeXVZTDktNVZUZ28&usp=sharing
Original URL	https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-33/?action=preview&uid=57210

Ratings

Coolness	45%	1415
Overall	3.00	572

Fun	3.28	285
Graphics	3.20	405
Mood	2.96	494
Theme	3.44	437

Feedback

IronPencilGames

24. Aug 2015 · 22:12 UTC

3930, Moby Dick! Simple and fun game.

daveh

24. Aug 2015 · 22:13 UTC

I like the look of the sea monster. It works well and looks great when there are tons of divers and bombs.

KPapaGeorge

24. Aug 2015 · 22:13 UTC

I like how that there was a high score to the game.
The gameplay is a bit repetitive thou

whalebot

24. Aug 2015 · 22:14 UTC

It definitely seems odd that when you get hit by a mine, your score resets, but the difficulty stays the same compared to the beginning... Other than that, it's a fun little game.

Multiplexor

24. Aug 2015 · 22:15 UTC

Hi, the weblink sends me to download the swf. It might get some people confused.

I downloaded the .swf and I can't seem to make it run, i tried with flash player 10 and It stays loading forever

🎤 flokitall

24. Aug 2015 · 22:33 UTC

@Multiplexor: thanks for pointing that out, I've replaced the Web link with a link to the Newgrounds page for the game. The Windows link still points to the .swf file if people want to download it.

It's odd that the game didn't load for you, I'll see if I can fix that. It should work on Newgrounds though.

unnamed1334

24. Aug 2015 · 22:36 UTC

The game-play is fun but does not appear to get any harder as the game goes on. If the difficulty scaled faster I would consider this to be a good avoider game.

I got a top score of 7400.

andyman404

25. Aug 2015 · 01:47 UTC

Easy controls! I like the sea monster's art.

ratking

25. Aug 2015 · 10:16 UTC

My topscore is 580 (Jaws)!

Too bad you didn't have time for some sound effects, they are fairly easy to make with bfxr, and a lot to the atmosphere.

Anyway, nice entry.

Cawrtz

25. Aug 2015 · 13:45 UTC

It was fun in the beginning but gets repetitive after a while. You should die eventually with mines in my opinion ^^ Otherwise I will just take a shower with them while the number of divers increases, so I can boost my score quicker.
Congratulations for graphics. The parallax, sun and lighting effects are very immersive.
Keep it up!

Dianouille

26. Aug 2015 · 18:23 UTC

Pretty simple game, but a nice one ! The controls are very smooth, and it's quite addictive :)

tomdeal

26. Aug 2015 · 20:11 UTC

Simple but very funny game :-)

bossmojoman

29. Aug 2015 · 14:33 UTC

Great job throughout, simple, addictive gameplay, clean graphics. Could have used sound, but thats about it. awesome job

MiniBobbo

30. Aug 2015 · 19:41 UTC

These are the bravest divers ever. Mines everywhere and a scary monster eating them, but they just keep coming!