Depths of Color

Very challenging game! I included it in my GM48: Colors are Important compilation video series, if you’d like to take a look. :) https://youtu.be/5oPza5MRAiY

Nice game! Somehow both relaxing and challenging at the same time. The music and sounds were well done! The submarine felt appropriately floaty and sluggish. I like how you have to manage your colourizer resource and try to pick the best time to use it, and I like how it acts as both a defense and a healing mechanism.

The big squids were intimidating -- fast and high damage. It felt nearly impossible to escape them (I think I did maybe once?) but maybe that's what you were going for.

The other thing was later on, the squid lines got so thick that I had no choice but to either pop a colourizer or find the weakest spot in the line (either from there being few squids or a lot of squids that shared my color) to crash through. I mean, I like that you have to make that choice sometimes, but in the end, I was making the choice frequently enough that I could not avoid destruction. Though that may have been intended. I'm not sure if this is meant to be 'infinite'-able?

Overall, this was a fun and mostly relaxing game! Well done!

PS. I wish I'd paid more attention, but I think I got in the 700-800s on my playthrough.

Hey, I really like the momentum of movement in this, really works to give the underwater vibe. I wish I'd had more of a defence mechanism against the squids, as I struggled to avoid them and get through the walls of jellyfish when I had no charges on my colorizer. The audio was spot on, and the whole feel of the game was really nice, I just wish the difficulty curve was more gentle.

Hey,

A nice and simple dodging game.

I like the controls of the sub, nice and floaty feel to them, and bouncing of walls. I also like the soft glow of the jellysquids.

I love that you can't change your color without collecting charges, this is done well, most games just let you change colors on the fly making it easy. I prefer having chrages.

The music goes well with the game, good pacing.

I'd say the art is lacking as there isn't much there and the overall gameplay could have been improved with more features.

I'd say use a decent font, this could have helped drastically, and increase the size.

EDIT: I got a score of 400+ (died just before I got count, would be nice to keep this on screen after u die)

The text in the top left is a little small and out of the way, it would have been nice for it to be a bit more obvious, is what I meant. Hope this clears it up. I keep trying to beat my best score, I love how you should really conserve the color changes.

Good entry! I think the core mechanics are strong. I had some trouble making progress the first time I played, since it gave me one color changing charge and then didn't give me another for several minutes. When it did put more on the screen, it gave me three at once and they were surrounded by a screen-filling layer of jellies! Definitely had some good emotional tension though; a little balance on spawning and some more enemies and this would be a complete game. I wonder if you could make the sub more responsive without losing the feeling of being underwater - maybe some nonlinear acceleration or something? I'm not sure. Keep up the good work!

Fun little game! The squids scare me, tho T-T Risk/reward balance is quite fun!

The music was very chill, and the little "cling"-sound when collecting jellyfish was satisfying.

I think it lacks content a little, but it's a promising game to be enhanced further!

Neat little game! Lovely ambient music and the art was ok too, while very simple. The gameplay was a bit hard however, it very quickly spawned full screen of jellyfish that were basically impossible to avoid, so you were guaranteed to take a lot of damage. It would have been better, if the spawns were a bit more thought out. But good job overall!