Working fine now. I might do another video for youtube, just to share your game (I'll add link). I'm only waiting for the bigger belly animation. People will like that ;)
About how long do you have to wait until the new Mermaid is selectable? And also, after feeding them and they go into the middle, are they permanently selectable, or do they need to be fed again each time you want to play as them? Or is it that you play as that Mermaid until you swap to the other one by feeding it and then selecting it once it's in the middle?
ever thought of giving her a special move if she eats a shark with a fire tail, like a flamethrower screen wipe then an inhale so she sucks them all in, or like a sea mine explosion
then the electric eel tail with a shark should give her a mega mouth like a gulper eel where she devours the screen. So I'm glad you are doing a sequel. Hopefully you manage to put some deep sea moments in with a black screen and much more glowing fish and glowing sharks maybe an angler fish mode or a black dragon fish mode or a comb jelly... Actually a comb jelly may be hard to animate... Im not sure how difficult it would be for you to make a boss shark for her to eat as well? That maybe calls smaller sharks she eats to get bigger until she can eat the boss shark.
I also think she should be able to sing a song to hypnotize the sharks as a standard mermaid and even in the sequel if it goes that for she could grow legs and feed on beach Gowers turtles coconut crabs snakes etc then she could find a surf board and she could surf and eat anything in her way. While she is on land she would use the song to hypnotize people, perhaps she could go to Komodo island and feed on the dragons If she gets knocked off she swims for a while still able to eat prey before her tail grows back.
This is how I think of it in terms of old sega m drive games I used to play.
If I was going to go further I would unlock a prehistoric mode with mosasaur lioplurodons etc she could eat and power up into. By the end there should be selectable versions like you have
Prehistoric
Surf
Deep-sea
Island legs
Komodo
Gulper
Flame
Eel
Maybe a jelly mode
You could have secret chars like a medusa that freezes anything looking at her a Cerberus with three upper bodies one tail. A hydra with multiple tails that grow mouths on so she can't be eaten from behind, a kraken with tentacles and a jet also cannot be bum rushed. A harpy that dives like a pelican but can glide also. And an orca that grows super fast when she eats sharks. These are my ideas for now. I hope you keep working on this game thanks for making it
Does it show up in the shop? If so you need to click on her to feed her first. She is selectable when In the center of the screen, but it takes a long idle time for her to digest and move. You can feed her then she will move even while not in that screen or not even in the game at all. Hope this helps :)
Enjoy the updates and quality-of-life changes. Not sure what you have planned, but seems solid already. If anything a tad more belly sag at larger sizes. Maybe other fellow mermaids also to potentially eat or be eaten for a new pred.
Peaceful mode is fixed, although I think the saved games get reset upon updating, let me know! If you don't want to risk losing your progress don't update, I will make it a priority
loving the new update, the addition of new sounds is amazing, I would love to see more burp/stomach sounds introduced in future updates as the game grows to keep up the variety, Nora is perfect at them. I have some feedback below:
1. passive mode doesnt spawn anything for me this update, it is just a blank ocean with nothing to do
2. With the new struggling mechanic I would love to see a minigame for breaking out, maybe those new heartfish can serve as a "currency" to get a struggle attempt, when you are swallowed you have to click to fill a bar before a second stomach bar depletes, if you do, the shark lets out a massive burp and you escape, consuming a heartfish. Each subsequent attempt should get harder of course to avoid infinite lives
3. I would love to see more things to eat in this game, especially as the mermaid grows, I have a few ideas: birds that fly above the water that you need to jump out to grab, scuba divers that can stun you if they are facing you, swimmers at the top of the water that can distract the shark but give lots of points, boats that you can bang from underneath and knock the people into the water. As you get bigger there can be dolphin girls/squid girls or something along those lines. It would be nice to see more human/seaanimal hybrids like the shark girl but Im not sure how feasible this would be if you aren't still working with AdjectiveNounCombo, they could even just be recolored versions of the player mermaid and at different sizes
Small Suggestions:
Add sliders to turn up/down music and sound effects
After the Shark digests the player, the screen can change into the inside of her stomach where you can still hear the stomach gurgles and her muffled burping, would make losing a chance to have some more fun ;)
love these ideas, might put in the struggle escape and the game over thing. I might put in the volume adjuster as well. Other than that I only plan on putting in 2 more power ups, minor cosmetics, and a level mode then I'll be done for this game :)
318258 is my phone score, I have a few requests, more shark types, maybe a manta power up that lets her flap for speed or glide, some sort of sea bird or boat she could eat, and.. something to do before you reach 1200, that shark cuts alot of runs early and keeps you in the introduction area for alot of runs so either edit the 1000- 1200 shark or put something to do before I found myself multitasking the CPU and phone version waiting for a good run past that shark. Really want to see different prey and possibly different mermaid types, if there was like a gulper or a mega mouth type that allowed you to swallow sharks bigger than you incase your behind on the first growth curve. Or if there was a manta power up that let you eat them from above ..
The next power up has a bit of a speed up and is swallow related, also I am adjusting the game balance for the next patch so that the difficulty is a bit more fluid. I did say I wouldn't be balancing anymore but it's a necessity until I'm done :)
Big shark xd, You might wanna turn down the gurgle sound a tad, when you get to a certain point, it becomes an auditory nightmare, it even makes the music bug out.
I usually tap repeatedly when the warning is up so that I can have momentum for when the shark comes out. It also helps to gain distance and speed with the eel ability
This is a really good game. I read the comments and see you are finishing up development soon, however I hope that if you do go for a sequel or something like that in the future you add more stuff for when we get very, very big. The name of the game is hungry mermaid cruise. It'd be fun if we'd be able to eat such a vessel at some point. Perhaps eventually whale (Orca or maybe a big white whale) or kraken girls are the threat instead of shark girls? Regardless, I look forward to your future work.
Are you adding nudity or bone laiden shit?, or more oblivious signs of struggle/attempted belly escape? because these things would dramatically increase the fantasy of the game.
Great update! Sharks moves really fast when you stop swimming! And that belly works fine now, there just one little issue with whirlpools, it throws the big mermaid far beyond the screen or holds her in place, making it quite difficult to escape. Hmm... maybe its better to make mermaid ignore whirlpools if she's big enough? Think it's logical🙂
Also a little suggestion considering shark girl, maybe its a good idea to add her belch bubbles too? Though it will require to add a specific mouth animation for this maybe?🤤
Cool!😋 Btw I've encountered a sound glitch, after the mermaid has grown to the size of the screen, the music disappeared at some point, perhaps due to overload from the large number of gurgling sound effects, as she eats everything on her way!😛 Maybe it’s worth stopping the mermaid’s growth once she reaches a certain size? Well, just saying🙂
Yeah. Got 250k. also thought I was invincible, but bigger shark came and insta-ate me, just like you instantly eat everything before it appear fully :D
Got purchased this, great game! I like how shark girl just keep digesting mermaid while keeping that emotionless stare, harsh and gloomy, the opposite of mermaid, she look like she doesn't care at all!😆
There some changes I'd like to suggest for next update!
- Why not place score in the left upper corner? You'll get distracted less this way.
- "No obstacles" mode please, (no sponges and whirlpools mode, these things often push you right into shark's mouth, really annoying sometimes, also no mermaid's yellow rings!🙂
- Ate a bunch of goldfish and lots stuff after, yet can't get max size belly, like in previous version, return the belly easy gain!😖
- Download links for previous game versions, please!🤩
Definitely a solid update, much more fun to play now.
A few issues I've seen are golden fish spawning too close to whirlpools or the bottom. As for heart eggs, there's been a few times where they spawned ahead of a whirlpool causing it to be missed.
Shark hitbox is still janky af and there are plenty of times that the shark warning has only worked on the left side. The eel really only seems to be useful in very niche circumstances, but an interesting idea.
Thanks for the comment! The warning doesn't appear if the shark is edible, even if it's right after a previous dash, not sure if that is what is happening for you :)
I have some minor suggestions I would like to pitch and 2 questions regarding game mechanics. For my suggestions I would love to see more variety in the burping sound effects, have a bunch of different burps that can play instead of just 1. Maybe the mermaid and shark can have 2 different 'pools' of sound effects, the sharks being far deeper and louder.
I think it would also be cool if the game got some ambient stomach sounds added in, more gurgles as the mermaid grows in size, and especially have noise during the shark digestion of the player. Right now it feels rather boring and anticlimactic, some good digestion sounds and burping would make me feel inclined to get eaten ;)
I saw a comment posted here suggesting bubble effects when the mermaid or shark burps, I really like this idea and would like to add on to it. Currently when either fish-person burps, their mouth is closed. To make it feel like a burp they should switch to the frame of animation where their mouth is open with bubbles/ripples coming out. I personally would love to see an animation of their mouths rippling from the force of the burp or maybe their eyes roll back/cheeks get red but I understand that making sprites/sprite sheets are very time consuming and difficult. That is also assuming that you are still able to get new assets from AdjectiveNounCombo.
As for my 2 questions, 1, what does the eel ability do exactly, I'm not finding much success with it and it feels rather janky, how did you intend for it to be used? 2, I would like to know your reasoning for removing horizontal movement of the mermaid, I cant tell if I prefer the new or old movement better but I would like to know your thought process.
I am thinking of adding more sounds in because I think it's a good idea, and for the eel power it can be used to get to the other side of cyclones and sponges when you are small, when you are bigger you might touch on the other side of them. I am thinking of reworking it since it seems a little weak.
I have a YouTube channel with over 5000 subscribers where I share the natural noises of my stomach and I would love to offer some of the sounds for this game! I made an itch.io account just so I could comment and reach out to see if you'd be interested. Credit would be appreciated but not required. You can contact me via email at mybellygurgles@gmail.com or via Discord @mybellygurgles <3
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Working fine now. I might do another video for youtube, just to share your game (I'll add link). I'm only waiting for the bigger belly animation. People will like that ;)
About how long do you have to wait until the new Mermaid is selectable? And also, after feeding them and they go into the middle, are they permanently selectable, or do they need to be fed again each time you want to play as them? Or is it that you play as that Mermaid until you swap to the other one by feeding it and then selecting it once it's in the middle?
They are permanently selectable after reaching the middle :)
Okay, update should be good to go now, sorry everyone :)
Buffet mode is a bit too easy now 😵💫 I'll change that for the next update
I have 13 goldfish from my first post-udate run, but tapping him does nothing. How many do I need?
the top mermaid is active already, if there isn't another mermaid in the water then there isn't any to feed :) sorry it's a little confusing
ever thought of giving her a special move if she eats a shark with a fire tail, like a flamethrower screen wipe then an inhale so she sucks them all in, or like a sea mine explosion
Great idea, I'll write that down for the sequel. For this I think I am going to make the flame bigger depending on the burp size :)
then the electric eel tail with a shark should give her a mega mouth like a gulper eel where she devours the screen. So I'm glad you are doing a sequel. Hopefully you manage to put some deep sea moments in with a black screen and much more glowing fish and glowing sharks maybe an angler fish mode or a black dragon fish mode or a comb jelly... Actually a comb jelly may be hard to animate... Im not sure how difficult it would be for you to make a boss shark for her to eat as well? That maybe calls smaller sharks she eats to get bigger until she can eat the boss shark.
I also think she should be able to sing a song to hypnotize the sharks as a standard mermaid and even in the sequel if it goes that for she could grow legs and feed on beach Gowers turtles coconut crabs snakes etc then she could find a surf board and she could surf and eat anything in her way. While she is on land she would use the song to hypnotize people, perhaps she could go to Komodo island and feed on the dragons If she gets knocked off she swims for a while still able to eat prey before her tail grows back.
This is how I think of it in terms of old sega m drive games I used to play.
If I was going to go further I would unlock a prehistoric mode with mosasaur lioplurodons etc she could eat and power up into. By the end there should be selectable versions like you have
Prehistoric
Surf
Deep-sea
Island legs
Komodo
Gulper
Flame
Eel
Maybe a jelly mode
You could have secret chars like a medusa that freezes anything looking at her a Cerberus with three upper bodies one tail. A hydra with multiple tails that grow mouths on so she can't be eaten from behind, a kraken with tentacles and a jet also cannot be bum rushed. A harpy that dives like a pelican but can glide also. And an orca that grows super fast when she eats sharks. These are my ideas for now. I hope you keep working on this game thanks for making it
Remember, no promises on a sequel. Like the ideas though!
I can't choose the new mermaid color. Bugged!
Does it show up in the shop? If so you need to click on her to feed her first. She is selectable when In the center of the screen, but it takes a long idle time for her to digest and move. You can feed her then she will move even while not in that screen or not even in the game at all. Hope this helps :)
This is how it looks. Is that half of mermaid suppose to look like that?
ah I thought I fixed it... I'll have to upload again tonight sorry 😭
Yea, I thought it looked weird. I do love all the cool updates.
For some reason I can't download updates.
uploading soon! There was a bug so i took it down
The update is amazing. Looking forward to future updates. Increasing the belly size more would be great.
I am thinking of scaling the max belly animation, because I think that might be worth it :)
Enjoy the updates and quality-of-life changes. Not sure what you have planned, but seems solid already. If anything a tad more belly sag at larger sizes. Maybe other fellow mermaids also to potentially eat or be eaten for a new pred.
Does Heart fish increase your size limit if you fry it?
nope, the cooked fish remove all affects of the fish it was. Retains the food you get and the score
having some plans for an an action RPG, but very early in the plans. Will probably return to more fetish stuff in the future as well
Peaceful mode is fixed, although I think the saved games get reset upon updating, let me know! If you don't want to risk losing your progress don't update, I will make it a priority
The sounds became simply magical! :)
I would like to see more animations.
It would be interesting to see when swallowing a shark how hard it is for it because they are almost the same size :)
Peaceful mode is bugged! Will fix within the week
loving the new update, the addition of new sounds is amazing, I would love to see more burp/stomach sounds introduced in future updates as the game grows to keep up the variety, Nora is perfect at them. I have some feedback below:
1. passive mode doesnt spawn anything for me this update, it is just a blank ocean with nothing to do
2. With the new struggling mechanic I would love to see a minigame for breaking out, maybe those new heartfish can serve as a "currency" to get a struggle attempt, when you are swallowed you have to click to fill a bar before a second stomach bar depletes, if you do, the shark lets out a massive burp and you escape, consuming a heartfish. Each subsequent attempt should get harder of course to avoid infinite lives
3. I would love to see more things to eat in this game, especially as the mermaid grows, I have a few ideas: birds that fly above the water that you need to jump out to grab, scuba divers that can stun you if they are facing you, swimmers at the top of the water that can distract the shark but give lots of points, boats that you can bang from underneath and knock the people into the water. As you get bigger there can be dolphin girls/squid girls or something along those lines. It would be nice to see more human/seaanimal hybrids like the shark girl but Im not sure how feasible this would be if you aren't still working with AdjectiveNounCombo, they could even just be recolored versions of the player mermaid and at different sizes
Small Suggestions:
Add sliders to turn up/down music and sound effects
After the Shark digests the player, the screen can change into the inside of her stomach where you can still hear the stomach gurgles and her muffled burping, would make losing a chance to have some more fun ;)
love these ideas, might put in the struggle escape and the game over thing. I might put in the volume adjuster as well. Other than that I only plan on putting in 2 more power ups, minor cosmetics, and a level mode then I'll be done for this game :)
Also I'll fix passive mode, sorry about that!
No worries, this game is too special to worry about a temporary bump in the road :)
I waited days for this update it was worth it
318258 is my phone score, I have a few requests, more shark types, maybe a manta power up that lets her flap for speed or glide, some sort of sea bird or boat she could eat, and.. something to do before you reach 1200, that shark cuts alot of runs early and keeps you in the introduction area for alot of runs so either edit the 1000- 1200 shark or put something to do before I found myself multitasking the CPU and phone version waiting for a good run past that shark. Really want to see different prey and possibly different mermaid types, if there was like a gulper or a mega mouth type that allowed you to swallow sharks bigger than you incase your behind on the first growth curve. Or if there was a manta power up that let you eat them from above ..
The next power up has a bit of a speed up and is swallow related, also I am adjusting the game balance for the next patch so that the difficulty is a bit more fluid. I did say I wouldn't be balancing anymore but it's a necessity until I'm done :)
My points 252334
Yep for next update I turned it down and made it so the sound doesn't play if they are super small :)
Very nice, any idea when it will be released? I'm leaving for 14 days on Wednesday, and was hoping to play it before I leave :)
Hopefully I can I want to but no promises 🙏
Yea of course, no pressure ^^
new high score lmao
You working on a big update, or just havn't had a lot of time to work on the game recently? :-)
both, may upload soon but I want to make sure it's a good one :)
Sweet, looking forward to it :-)
Any shark tips? Im finding trouble particularly at the 1500 benchmark.
I usually tap repeatedly when the warning is up so that I can have momentum for when the shark comes out. It also helps to gain distance and speed with the eel ability
This is a really good game. I read the comments and see you are finishing up development soon, however I hope that if you do go for a sequel or something like that in the future you add more stuff for when we get very, very big. The name of the game is hungry mermaid cruise. It'd be fun if we'd be able to eat such a vessel at some point. Perhaps eventually whale (Orca or maybe a big white whale) or kraken girls are the threat instead of shark girls? Regardless, I look forward to your future work.
I would love to see this as well, maybe in the distant future :)
Any way we can get updated controls on how to use abilities, go forward and backward, etc ?
Do you know the game Hungry Shark Evolution? I really liked this game back in the day.I'd like to see something like this. :)
The speed of the belly growth is just way too slow in my opinion.
I will be adding a level mode with varied modifiers, one of them being no special fish so the belly can grow quickly and freely :)
At 263000 points a very big shark appeared an instantly ate me.
Are you adding nudity or bone laiden shit?, or more oblivious signs of struggle/attempted belly escape? because these things would dramatically increase the fantasy of the game.
Not gonna add any more character assets for this game unfortunately, finishing up development soon
Why do you want to finish it?Will you be developing another game?
yep :)
Great update! Sharks moves really fast when you stop swimming! And that belly works fine now, there just one little issue with whirlpools, it throws the big mermaid far beyond the screen or holds her in place, making it quite difficult to escape. Hmm... maybe its better to make mermaid ignore whirlpools if she's big enough? Think it's logical🙂
Also a little suggestion considering shark girl, maybe its a good idea to add her belch bubbles too? Though it will require to add a specific mouth animation for this maybe?🤤
the whirlpools are going to be ignored when big enough, yep :)
Cool!😋 Btw I've encountered a sound glitch, after the mermaid has grown to the size of the screen, the music disappeared at some point, perhaps due to overload from the large number of gurgling sound effects, as she eats everything on her way!😛 Maybe it’s worth stopping the mermaid’s growth once she reaches a certain size? Well, just saying🙂
Good point I'll keep that in mind :)
There is also a proposal.So that the mermaid, upon reaching the maximum size, lies down on the bottom and falls asleep.:)
I would like more animation of sounds.:)
Set a new record. 345426)
I died because the Whirlwind grabbed me and didn’t let me go, throwing me up.
That would happen to me too 😅
Got a 270.000 highscore, and thought I was invincible, until a shark as big as the screen came along xd
Mermaid is also very cute when she's massive and have a full belly
So the shark was bigger than you? I was going too long without a bigger shark and thought it was bugged. I'll check the values later
Yea, but only slightly. She was big enough to nom me at least :p
Yeah. Got 250k. also thought I was invincible, but bigger shark came and insta-ate me, just like you instantly eat everything before it appear fully :D
Got 220000 on high score
Got purchased this, great game! I like how shark girl just keep digesting mermaid while keeping that emotionless stare, harsh and gloomy, the opposite of mermaid, she look like she doesn't care at all!😆
There some changes I'd like to suggest for next update!
- Why not place score in the left upper corner? You'll get distracted less this way.
- "No obstacles" mode please, (no sponges and whirlpools mode, these things often push you right into shark's mouth, really annoying sometimes, also no mermaid's yellow rings!🙂
- Ate a bunch of goldfish and lots stuff after, yet can't get max size belly, like in previous version, return the belly easy gain!😖
- Download links for previous game versions, please!🤩
The belly max is glitched right now but I fixed it for next update! I'll look into trying to get previous versions when I finish :)
That would be great!😃 Will you consider those couple more things I wrote above also? I'd buy the game again for these new changes😛 Many thanks!🙂
I may remove the obstacles for peaceful as it does make it much more relaxing, as for the score I personally like how convenient it is to see
Okays, no worries🙂
Definitely a solid update, much more fun to play now.
A few issues I've seen are golden fish spawning too close to whirlpools or the bottom. As for heart eggs, there's been a few times where they spawned ahead of a whirlpool causing it to be missed.
Shark hitbox is still janky af and there are plenty of times that the shark warning has only worked on the left side. The eel really only seems to be useful in very niche circumstances, but an interesting idea.
Keep up the good work!
Thanks for the comment! The warning doesn't appear if the shark is edible, even if it's right after a previous dash, not sure if that is what is happening for you :)
Sadly, I fell for one of the classic blunders. It was not edible. :(
so she wasn't edible and had no warning? I'll check it out :)
I hope you make a sequel
Look forward to richer game content! Bigger maps, finer animations, more fish, and possible plots. Wait for the next update!
Sooo.. i dont want to bother, but how do i get the new Version :) ?
Ha! Me smart Human. I got it.
I have some minor suggestions I would like to pitch and 2 questions regarding game mechanics. For my suggestions I would love to see more variety in the burping sound effects, have a bunch of different burps that can play instead of just 1. Maybe the mermaid and shark can have 2 different 'pools' of sound effects, the sharks being far deeper and louder.
I think it would also be cool if the game got some ambient stomach sounds added in, more gurgles as the mermaid grows in size, and especially have noise during the shark digestion of the player. Right now it feels rather boring and anticlimactic, some good digestion sounds and burping would make me feel inclined to get eaten ;)
I saw a comment posted here suggesting bubble effects when the mermaid or shark burps, I really like this idea and would like to add on to it. Currently when either fish-person burps, their mouth is closed. To make it feel like a burp they should switch to the frame of animation where their mouth is open with bubbles/ripples coming out. I personally would love to see an animation of their mouths rippling from the force of the burp or maybe their eyes roll back/cheeks get red but I understand that making sprites/sprite sheets are very time consuming and difficult. That is also assuming that you are still able to get new assets from AdjectiveNounCombo.
As for my 2 questions, 1, what does the eel ability do exactly, I'm not finding much success with it and it feels rather janky, how did you intend for it to be used? 2, I would like to know your reasoning for removing horizontal movement of the mermaid, I cant tell if I prefer the new or old movement better but I would like to know your thought process.
I am thinking of adding more sounds in because I think it's a good idea, and for the eel power it can be used to get to the other side of cyclones and sponges when you are small, when you are bigger you might touch on the other side of them. I am thinking of reworking it since it seems a little weak.
I have a YouTube channel with over 5000 subscribers where I share the natural noises of my stomach and I would love to offer some of the sounds for this game! I made an itch.io account just so I could comment and reach out to see if you'd be interested. Credit would be appreciated but not required. You can contact me via email at mybellygurgles@gmail.com or via Discord @mybellygurgles <3
Here is my channel: https://www.youtube.com/@mybellygurgles
sounds great! I'll probably be emailing you soon :)
I agree