もしもしい。。。　鮫鮫がいます。。。

that's some good ambience............ i wander the infinite road, stalked only by............ THEM

same, same, same same

i really like the dreamlike vibe i get from this :ok_hand:

jeez these unity things take a while to load

the good: the atmosphere was really cool. visuals and music worked well together, and i brought a lot of harpoons

the bad: not really parallax, no health indicator, i forgot to sharpen my harpoons

edit: oh also the y axis was "inverted" according to my expectations but maybe other people have different expectations

that's odd about the inversion. do you expect when you move your mouse up that you'll look down in first person games? i don't think that's usually the default. or did you get the bug where your vision is completely upside down? i've triggered that a couple times but i'm not entirely sure how to fix it. happens if an extreme mouse movement is registered and it moves too fast and bypasses my rotation limits.

the lack of a HUD was partially laziness, partially because i think HUDs can detract from atmospheric stuff like this (see silent hill or ICO).

the lack of parallax is because i really wanted to make a 3D game and i'm not sure how to implement parallax in 3D when parallax is a simulation of aspects of 3D. puke suggested restricting movement to one direction so that's why the long cage. you can look out the sides and see hills which are a common feature in 2d parallax sidescrollers. dunno what to do aside from that.

also, that's a good point about the harpoons. i should have them stick to the sharks when they hit.

in that context i think of moving the mouse "forward/back" and not "up/down", but yes. i honestly don't remember what the convention is, but i think of it like a joystick, where forward is down and backward is up. i definitely didn't get any upside-down vision bug

you make a good point about the HUD w/r/t detracting from atmosphere, and i agree. the game would have felt different. it was just weird to get hit a couple times and not know what that implied in terms of game mechanics

and yeah, i mean... parallax isn't so much a simulation of 3D as an inherent property of it, but in a similar way to how noise is an inherent property of explosions, and making a game about explosives isn't really making a game about noise. it's weird; the bitpack isn't super 3D-friendly in that way. i get what you're saying though and i'm not trying to fault you for it

i also think there's something cool about the harpoons as-is.

i'll definitely add an invert mouse y-axis option for my next build of this game, i kind of took it for granted that the default would work for everyone even though most games have an option for that.

i guess i should have included in the instructions that you can get hit 5 times before you're forced to start over or maybe given the player less health. as it is, you're right, you might be left thinking "oh am i invincible or something?" when you take several hits and seem to be fine. or maybe i could have indicated health some other way like the player could have labored breathing or something.

thanks for taking time to give detailed feedback, i appreciate it.

This was a lot of fun Max!
I think the harpoons should stick in the sharks.
Got this John Carpenter playing a Prophet 5 vibe from the music, always a good thing.
The whole thing feels pretty polished and I'm glad there's
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an actual ending. I would have been kinda disappointed with just endless sharkshooting. The Big Shark at the end freaked me out.

I enjoyed the harpoons quite a bit. I liked their throw sound effect and the sound when they hit a shark, and it felt good. It was pretty easy to run away from them, though, so I kinda did that more than you might have wanted/expected me to.

Also, the mouse sensitivity was much higher than what I'm used to, so it was very easy for me to accidentally get spun around and not know which way I was going. I ended up going the wrong way for a good while before I found a dead shark to remind me that I'd been there before. I dunno, maybe the monotony of it was poetic?

it's hard to incentivize the player to actually fight enemies in 3D games rather than just going around them. one option is to establish gates that won't unlock until everything is dead, such as in PSO and devil may cry. aside from that, i guess you can make corridors narrow enough that going around isn't an option without taking some damage, such as some of the buildings you explore in silent hill. the last one i'm aware of is having the enemies drop useful stuff for the player (PSO and DMC also do this). i considered doing droppable powerups but it just didn't really seem like something that would fit, i dunno.

as it is, i'm kind of OK with running past everything being the optimal strategy (this is also true for silent hill and early resident evil games whenever you're not in a tight, enclosed space). the option to kill the sharks is for those who want to take their time and gaze at the scenery outside or play around with the physics.

maybe i could add parts where the cage gets narrower so that the optimal strategy varies over the course of the game.

rather than encourage the player to fight enemies, what about giving them the option to not figh.....

oh

I've always been one who likes to kill every enemy I come across. Just instinct!

the atmosphere of this game stuck with me the most out of the entries to this compo. nice job.