Hey I just had two ideas; one small and one large.
The small idea is an option to disable the music so I can just hear the gulps and gurgles.
The large idea is an internal belly view that shows which fish are currently in the mermaid’s tummy, swimming around in there and then disappearing. I guess the best place for it would be the top left since the pause button is on the top right.
The past couple of comments seem worried. Just wanna point out that only a few comments down HungryBelly mentioned a break from coding, and that it would be a bit until next update. Every hardworking engine needs cooling!
On an unrelated note, I also want to say that I’ve gone from hating the shark to loving her more than I love the mermaid. It is an inescapable arc. All Hungry Mermaid Cruise players are fated to fulfill it. >:)
Can the shark have to be bigger to eat you? O feel like something should have to be bigger than you to eat it. Also more smaller shark spawns please! It is incredibly satisfying to eat the thing trying to eat me!
Loving the updates ~ if anything the only annoying this that I need to get use to is that a smaller shark can eat the mermaid from behind and that get quite fast too. Maybe ton the speed down a bit, but also a cosmetic idea could be that Shark girl belly sags more since the mermaid is quite larger :3
I got it and I really like it! My only gripe is that it gets really hard to dodge at the larger sizes. Also the hitbox for the mermaid and the sharks don't match. And though the music is good, I could use a mute switch.
Looking forward to see what you do with this game!
Seem to have discovered a couple bugs in this latest version, they may be related:
- Sharks significantly smaller than the mermaid can eat her.
- The mermaid now grows EXTREMELY quickly. Since installing the update, I can get the mermaid to fill a good sixth of the screen without score going much higher than 1000.
in cruise mode it should be fairly slow.. but buffet mode should be fast. Balances will be fluctuating a bit through the updates, thanks for the feedback :)
Awesome, I read through some of the comments, I really liked the idea of the game over screen being inside the shark's belly, dunno how much work that would be tho.
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.
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Hey I just had two ideas; one small and one large.
The small idea is an option to disable the music so I can just hear the gulps and gurgles.
The large idea is an internal belly view that shows which fish are currently in the mermaid’s tummy, swimming around in there and then disappearing. I guess the best place for it would be the top left since the pause button is on the top right.
Love these ideas, I will put in the music option because it will be quick to do.
How do i redownload for free if i bought before an account and want the skins now that i have one
Hm you might be able do it with the "I already purchased this" option
Check your email, it should be there.
The past couple of comments seem worried. Just wanna point out that only a few comments down HungryBelly mentioned a break from coding, and that it would be a bit until next update. Every hardworking engine needs cooling!
On an unrelated note, I also want to say that I’ve gone from hating the shark to loving her more than I love the mermaid. It is an inescapable arc. All Hungry Mermaid Cruise players are fated to fulfill it. >:)
Haha I'm hoping to bring more of a challenge in the next update 😈
hope you’re doing alright! I’m still enjoying the current version.
You don't seem to have been very active lately, hope everything is alright :)
Thanks! Got a little bit going on but hoping on pushing an update in june
No worries m8, just happy to see you're alright :)
ETA on the next update? :)
Maybe in a month or so! Just taking a little break, lot's of things going on
Can the shark have to be bigger to eat you? O feel like something should have to be bigger than you to eat it. Also more smaller shark spawns please! It is incredibly satisfying to eat the thing trying to eat me!
Loving the updates ~ if anything the only annoying this that I need to get use to is that a smaller shark can eat the mermaid from behind and that get quite fast too. Maybe ton the speed down a bit, but also a cosmetic idea could be that Shark girl belly sags more since the mermaid is quite larger :3
Yep I'm gonna work on making the shark belly match the mermaid size
It'd be cool if there was a mode where you were a shark and you eat the Mermaids who try to eat you.
Been brainstorming a bit about this but not sure about it yet tbh.. also been taking a big break from coding so gonna be a bit before another update
If we buy the game, are the updates free afterward?
of course!
I got it and I really like it! My only gripe is that it gets really hard to dodge at the larger sizes. Also the hitbox for the mermaid and the sharks don't match. And though the music is good, I could use a mute switch.
Looking forward to see what you do with this game!
I realized the hit boxes haven't matched, they will be fixed next update:)
Seem to have discovered a couple bugs in this latest version, they may be related:
- Sharks significantly smaller than the mermaid can eat her.
- The mermaid now grows EXTREMELY quickly. Since installing the update, I can get the mermaid to fill a good sixth of the screen without score going much higher than 1000.
Or is this intended?
in cruise mode it should be fairly slow.. but buffet mode should be fast. Balances will be fluctuating a bit through the updates, thanks for the feedback :)
And the shark is able to eat the mermaid from behind now, if the shark is at least 3/4 the size of the mermaid. Next update it will be 4/5
when will I see the other mermaid skin in the goldfish room, rn I just see the original one at the surface at the top right
Be patient. Keep feeding her and let her digest. And feed her again a bit later. I got her in less than a day.
Of course, you have to unlock her first. You have to get 10 000 points on cruise mode before she appears.
Im having the same issue, how do you feed her?
Clicking her should spawn fish for her to eat if you have any gold fish!
Just got home and got to try the 2 new updates, fucking amazing work m8, the game is close to perfect now :)
I'm even more excited to work on it, looking forward to making the stage mode :)
Awesome, I read through some of the comments, I really liked the idea of the game over screen being inside the shark's belly, dunno how much work that would be tho.
Might make that a hidden little feature to look inside after she's digested, but I'm going to keep the game over how it is now generally
Sounds like the best of both worlds to me :)
It'd be neat if you could have the sharks also eat what they pass, also a bigger belly, maybe can comm anc for some different frames
Hmm maybe in the sequel :)
for sure, I like this a bunch, lmk if you need to crowdfund
Would the sequel be named Hungry Mermaid Cruise 2 or Too Hungry Mermaid Cruise?
That's a good name lol
how many goldfish do you need to feed her before you can select her
probably 50-100
if her belly is huge, you might want to wait for her to digest before feeding more :)
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. :)