Home    LBP Showcase / Reviews / Recommendations    Level Showcase
#1

Swimmin' With The Fishies

Archive: 6 posts


Swimmin' With The FishiesDRLONG
http://www.littlebignetwork.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=6581
Swim through the Little Big Ocean on the back of a dolphin, shark, or swordfish in this amazing underwater adventure! Difficulty: HARD, 1 player recommended.
IT'S FINALLY HERE!!! Time to dive in to an underwater adventure like none other! Swim through reefs, shipwrecks, minefields, and monster filled caverns as you race against the clock to get the top score! Utilize the abilities of three unique underwater creatures and swim through hoops and booster to add to shorten your time as well as adding to your score! But the question is can you make it to the end? It's quite easy to get lost in the vastness of the LittleBigOcean...
http://www.littlebignetwork.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=6578

Meet the friendly tribes people of the beautiful island of Toahu! Not only are they friendly but they love to dance and eat coconuts...whole...as well!

http://www.littlebignetwork.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=6582

Take a ride with the checkpoint Tug-Boat as it follows you wherever you go providing support!

http://www.littlebignetwork.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=6575

Swim through the beautiful scenic offshore reefs where many fishies swim and play all day.

http://www.littlebignetwork.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=6576

Explore the ol' abandoned shipwreck offshore and discover it's...interesting...inhabitants.

http://www.littlebignetwork.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=6579

Discover a destroyed and rusted German U-Boat and beware of the surrounding mine field...

http://www.littlebignetwork.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=6577

Make your way through the underwater caverns hidden away from the world. But be warned, there's more than just rocks and sand down there...

http://www.littlebignetwork.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=6580

On your way through the caverns you may find some rather...large... deadly creatures.

http://www.littlebignetwork.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=6583

Your quest through the LittleBigOcean has almost come to an end, however you must first pass through the treacherous eel trench.

Level Name: Swimmin' With The Fishies
PSN: DRLONG

P.S. Tell me if the pics are visible or not. Also I'd love to hear what you guys think about the level however I can't change much in the level since the thermo will literally explode if I add even a cardboard box...:eek:
2010-04-10 03:00:00

Author:
DRLONG
Posts: 57


sounds interesting, thrilling much, gonna try it ASAP 2010-04-10 03:01:00

Author:
Chump
Posts: 1712


Hi friend !

Having had the pleasure of seeing this project under construction 'live' I was very excited to finally play it!

Let me start off with the positives :

The beginning looks very good visually, and so does the boat and the dolphin creature (and the other ones) you get.
I loved your ideas of using boosters underwater, and specialities for each fish, very nice level design!

However, -and this is were things go wrong- your beasties are too hard to control fluently. I really don't know what happened because in the sneak peak I got some time ago, I was swimming with my dolphin and it worked pretty good. In this final level, I couldn't get the dolphin to turn sharp and quickly enough, resulting in beeing frustrated to always die at electrical fences you had to swim through.

You made a great level, but I'm afraid the reason it's only getting 3 star ratings is because despite its beautiful visuals, the controls are just not intuitive / responsive enough to make it till the end of the level.

It's nice your boat follows you, but it doesn't help when you have to go underwater again, face the same things that killed you and die again and again.

Maybe you should investigate the controls a bit further and try to make the dolphin lighter and a bit smaller so you can control it easier?

I never got to the exciting chase sequence (which was shown to me in the sneak peak while creating) :-(

Overall, I know this level is amazing but I feel the controls let it down. Also , the part where you have to go on foot isn't very clear at where you need to go and you're always in danger of running out of oxygen. Maybe giving the player a diving mask at the start would help? at least then the player didn't have to worry about suffication under water.

I feel this entire opinion may have been slightly negative, but it's meant to be constructive. I feel this level looks awesome and deserves to be fixed so it can get the 5 star rating it really deserves!

You are one of the best creators out there so I'm positive you will fix the controls and looking forward to playing this level again as well as your new ones under construction

best regards
2010-04-10 09:12:00

Author:
nightwing
Posts: 422


Thanks alot for your mini-review nightwing! I'm sorry you had such a difficult time with it. The strange thing is that I never messed with the controls since the last time I showed you. This is actually the first time someone had trouble with the controls I believe. Just out of curiosity, were you holdig down X? Cause if you weren't then there is no way you can get through the level. Also if you are holding X and a speech bubble pops up something glitches to were holding down X won't work but all you have to do is let go of X for a second and then press it again. I put as many directions in as I possibly could without having a level just filled with speech bubbles. I might put scuba gear in now that I think of it but the only reason I never put it in before is because it kinda added to the challenge not to mention bubbles come off of all the fish which is why I put them there. However apparently the level is a challenge enough. Once again thanks for your thoughts and I will try to investigate these problems you've noticed later on but as of right now I'm working on a new level series so I'll take a look when I get a chance. 2010-04-10 21:13:00

Author:
DRLONG
Posts: 57


looking forward to it already my dear Dr :-)

I will try your level once more and see if I can get further this time around with the tapping of x
2010-04-12 21:00:00

Author:
nightwing
Posts: 422


Nice level. The dolphin ride is awesome and the underwater level design is nicely done. My suggestion for this level is that I gave the tiki guy 4 coconuts and the sticker and key didn't drop but I understood that I can only give him one coconut at a time so either the logical tool needs to be more accurate or the tiki guy needs to be more descriptive about giving him one coconut at a time. Overall it's a fun level and congratulations on being spotlighted.2010-04-19 00:50:00

Author:
JustinArt
Posts: 1314


LBPCentral Archive Statistics
Posts: 1077139    Threads: 69970    Members: 9661    Archive-Date: 2019-01-19

Datenschutz
Aus dem Archiv wurden alle persönlichen Daten wie Name, Anschrift, Email etc. - aber auch sämtliche Inhalte wie z.B. persönliche Nachrichten - entfernt.
Die Nutzung dieser Webseite erfolgt ohne Speicherung personenbezogener Daten. Es werden keinerlei Cookies, Logs, 3rd-Party-Plugins etc. verwendet.