Tiny Sad Kraken by Erlend Aakre
A 2D top down action game where you must help a tiny sad kraken back to the sea to reunite with it's mother.
Swim around and grow stronger as you devour ships and their crews, watch out for stars and keep going until you are strong enough to break the dam separating you from the ocean.
==================== TIPS ====================
There are 3 towns (north west, north east, south east). The dam is in South West!
Ships will spawn at the towns, and they will head to a different town.
Your size can go from 10 to 70. being size 10 lets you attack the size 10 boat. Boats are size 10,20,30,40,50,60. Attacking a boat too big gives you a small amount of damage.
Sharks do a lot of damage and spawn randomly, you have to outrun them and they will stop chasing. Turn down difficulty level to have fewer sharks be active at any time.
Swim around and grow stronger as you devour ships and their crews, watch out for stars and keep going until you are strong enough to break the dam separating you from the ocean.
==================== TIPS ====================
There are 3 towns (north west, north east, south east). The dam is in South West!
Ships will spawn at the towns, and they will head to a different town.
Your size can go from 10 to 70. being size 10 lets you attack the size 10 boat. Boats are size 10,20,30,40,50,60. Attacking a boat too big gives you a small amount of damage.
Sharks do a lot of damage and spawn randomly, you have to outrun them and they will stop chasing. Turn down difficulty level to have fewer sharks be active at any time.
Ratings
| Coolness | 92% | 2 |
| Overall(Jam) | 3.67 | 174 |
| Audio(Jam) | 3.59 | 168 |
| Fun(Jam) | 3.30 | 352 |
| Graphics(Jam) | 3.85 | 302 |
| Humor(Jam) | 2.71 | 565 |
| Innovation(Jam) | 3.15 | 412 |
| Mood(Jam) | 3.59 | 191 |
| Theme(Jam) | 4.04 | 99 |
I wondered around for about 10 minutes and couldn't find any ships small enough to consume. I got knocked around by some sharks and when I tried to eat the smallest ship I could find, I found I was still too small. Oh well.
The atmosphere was great. It was neat to explore around as the little Kraken and find island towns. There was just too little that I could actually do during my time playing.
A big map with nothing I had to move long time before finally understanding that I only have to camp before the port xD (alos lot, lot decoration all around the sea, but we cannot do any interactions with it, so sad).
And, sharks are really OP, I was a 53 size and get killed in few seconds, no way to go faster than he, when it's on you you can just die :/
Maybe this could be more fun if the pacing was faster and sense of space was easier (minimap? ship indicators/objective indicators?), or just a smaller mapsize in general. OR spawn more ships for more places so you don't have to hunt so hard. Maybe the trade routes could be marked more clearly somehow? Maybe movement speed boost/attack button to make exploration more exciting?
I'm digging the different sound effects for ship sizes and the shark animation/follow/ai is spot on !
I like how big the world was with different biomes and villages with people running around. At the same time it felt difficult to know where to go.
The music was pleasant and I liked the art style.
The video reviews of the games I played: https://youtu.be/gAPMEoLs5yA
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