Dude, bruh, and BRO. This update is so good that the excitement it gave me perfectly rivaled my reaction to finally receiving Geometry Dash 2.1 all those years ago! The game is half the price it should be now!
I played Shark Hunt before clicking anything else and I’m glad it did, as it made for a great introduction to the new stuff. The difficulty of Shark Hunt right now, I think, is quite steep in 2 or 3 levels. But it arms you up good and proper for shark dodging and racking up your score according to certain patterns. The new skins are beautiful and right now I think they’re even sexier than what was already available. I will forever dub this the Bubble Update. You put them everywhere - even in the shark’s hair, WHAT! It looks great though. Iconic for the game for sure. Pufferfish is awesome but I don’t think anything will ever beat the cajun in my book. Squid has my favorite altered mermaid design; looks more dressy, and I like it more than the eel. That little bit of lore on the background of Exodus was so cool too.
Two things: Whatever happened to the reddening of the skin upon consuming a cajun, and how do you feel about the idea of the mines instantly digesting a small portion of fish upon swallowing them?
Thanks a ton! I'm proud of the work I've done on this game, and extremely grateful for the traffic it got. I'm excited to move onto more projects! For the red belly, I just removed it because I added more skin colors and can't translate it over well.
I decided to check out the new update because I haven't played in a while, but I find it's flat out impossible to get anywhere thanks to the first homing shark. She's way too fast to outmaneuver or even to prepare for. There's nothing signaling that this specific shark can track you, so by the time you realize it, it's already too late. Also the fact that said shark can jump as well I find to be incredibly cheap. Jumping outside the water was one of the few consistent strategies against fast sharks before, and now that there's zero safe areas just feels like there's no risk or reward here, you just get punished for playing the game for more than a minute.
I can't even tell what the rest of the game is like because I can't get past 170 fish before the shark comes in. The one time I DID dodge the shark it somehow broke the game. I hope the balancing update comes soon.
Is this in cruise mode and not the demo? The sharks shouldn't start tracking until a few minutes in and the tracking shouldn't be that much. In shark hunts, the shark automatically gets you after 2 minutes. I'll double check the code!
So I looked it up, and it seems like I somehow downloaded the Demo version by mistake. I downloaded the proper version now so none of this stuff applies now. My bad.
Game is great, more difficult on android, wish there was an option to mute burps as well and an option to go back to previous versions. powerups being overwritten ends up being annoying especially when you go very big.
The power ups part is very true, I'm thinking of making it not possible to change your power. Definitely harder on mobile yep, not sure how to help that. As for the burps, would you want there to be an option to just mute all sfx?
No I just want an option to mute the burps with an ingame setting, I noticed the game is hardcoded that if a sound fil is missing, like a burp one, the game crashes, a bandaid fix would be the game to check when you press play if the option to turn off burp sounds is on or off, then to not complicate coding just play dummy files that have no sound, or you could do another bandaid fix where the game checks each timethe burp sound effect plays, but I see this solution explode someone's PC down the line with how many times this check would need to be processed
I wasn't e expecting adjective noun combo to be credited, I thought he just secluded himself to patreon
Also if you want to make the game easier, add in another gameplay mode,
In 4his mode you start off like in cruise but you can purchase upgrades in the shop using fish you ate
Like a luck stat to spawn more golden fish, make a specific upgrade fish more common,
Decrease the damage the mines do,
Fatass, reduce the kickback you receive from obstacles, if you know the game burito bison, you might see how similar the game can be, if you want itto be,
Goldfish sprite is hard to see, if you want to pull of a sick joke just do a clownfish sprite(rip nemo)
I generally have more ideas but I think you already have an ideas guy
Good suggestion, I am currently making it so burps are only played on full gulps, so the sound isn't actually called too often and the game can be redownloaded pretty easily if a file is missing. You did make me realize there are probably too much objects on screen still with all the small fish, so I'm reducing the max count for that. As for the difficulty, the shark hunts will be reduced next update and I will have a predator mode that is basically gambling with gold fish lol. I like the idea of an upgrade mode, would be great for if I made a sequel.
The "light" level... Does this even possible to complete??😳 I've tried it like 50x times! It's so difficult to control a large mermaid, which is basically logical, hovewer, upon diving to escape from shark you just bounces off bottom right into her mouth, I'm not even saying about all the other obstacles😔...
Yes, I know about this, its not helping, by that time the screen is in complete chaos, even if you manage to eat the eel, you will immediately eat some other creature, which will ruin the effect.
Love the update, and most of the changes made by the patch. The only thing I don't enjoy is the "boyancy" effect at larger sizes. Moving slower at larger sizes makes sense, but the boyancy makes it impossible to move down after a certain point.
OK THX U SO MUCH SIRRR (also can you please lower her buoyant when she's full? it really hard to swim or maybe what about perk stat to upgrade by using golden fish something like better stockpile or have more resist to buoyant)
I think the penalty of being full is slightly too much compared to how frequent sharks appear. Or is it intended that players avoid eating sharks whenever possible?
I am going to tone down the movement penalty for sure lol. It's a bit manageable by reversing momentum using the surface and bottom of the screen but I still want more control
I think level 5 is still a bit too hard due to the acceleration change, I will change it next update if I still think so by then. I wanted to make fixing the errors a priority!
So what the strategy for winning at shark hunt? I can beat the first level but can't seem to get big quickly enough to beat the second.
I've tried prioritising small fish for more mass, big fish for points, the gold fish to increase capacity quickly, the special ones as they give more points and seem to grow with you but no strategy that I'm doing seems to work.
do you plan on adding in an interior game over screen at some point, once you are digested I would love to see a stomach interior with gurgling and muffled burps before trying again.
bit of a late response but that is awesome to hear, I think it would be a great visual break between runs while having the added benefit of being really hot lmao
... Huh. Every third or fourth shark just matches my movement perfectly and gets me every time. My runs are now incredibly short. What do I need to avoid doing so I don't get the fail state shark anymore?
If you're playing shark hunt 5 or are just at a high level shark, you can move one way while the warning is up then move the other way. If you are on a fresh save file in cruise and it immediately starts happening, you might have the demo copy
We did it bois, though that last level is more luck than skill xd, still fun though. How many sharks do you need to unlock the final mermaid? And does the new mermaids have any skills, like the yellow one getting goldfish for eating sharks?
Love this update! Lots of fun to see how far this game has come from the first edition to now. If I had one small change to make, maybe an item that stops sharks from spawning for like 10 seconds, like a dolphin edible or something. Haven't gotten too far into the shark hunt so I can't speak for any problems there, but all in all Love this!
I like that idea! And thanks a ton it's been fun developing this. I do wish I did some more testing before I published the update but I was too excited to put it up lol.
Awesome update, but that Shark Hunt level 'Light' is... Insane. The screen is so crowded and the shark is enormous, it's frequently impossible to avoid her as obstacles bounce you into her path and she seems to track your movements while in motion rather than just swimming in straight lines. last time I got about 30seconds into the level and it crashed. Maybe tone down the amount of stuff on-screen and make the shark slightly smaller/reduce obstacles?
EDIT: And the crash reverted my progress on Shark Hunt back to the previous stage so now I have to complete Promise again.
Yeah, I just got that crash too. It also reverted my progress...
Edit: sort of fix I found. Once you get to the final level, play a few rounds of cruse or feast mode. Even if you get the crash again it won't delete your progress, and given enough time you should be able to beat it.
Yeah I am gonna reduce the spawns, especially if it's crashing. At high levels, sharks will match your vertical speed or even move slightly up and down during a dash. Once you run out of time in a shark hunt she is unavoidable. Thanks for the feedback!
She's unavoidable seemingly at random, tracking my vertical movement faster than I can ascend/descend. I've been eaten with no way to escape in the first 20 seconds of Light over a dozen times. The lowest I've gotten the timer is 1:03. Sometimes she goes for squid ability decoys, sometimes she ignores them and goes straight for me. I don't mind difficulty but atm there's no predictable pattern or room for maneuver. You can't even reliably use the squid ability because there's so many eels and spicy fish around that you are too big to avoid while also avoiding the shark/mines/toxic waste/getting bounced around by sponges. I've played the level probably 50+ times now and I don't see how anyone can beat it without insane luck.
Also, are bigger bellies actually working? i got over 100,000 points in cruise and was so big sharks had completely stopped spawning, but the mermaid's belly seems to cap out at the same size it always did in previous versions.
I've tried "Sanctuary" about a dozen times, no shot this can be beaten. Even tried using CE to fudge scoring and still no dice. Some other prereq to beating it?
If you dash into the shark with the eel power when you are just a little smaller than it you can swallow her. I'll test it out some more, might end up making the levels easier
So, game keeps saying it was not designed to run on windows or there was an error, preventing me from playing in full screen which offsets the buttons to the point that I cannot play one of the later shark hunt levels. Not sure why this is happening but thought it was important to let you know.
In attempting to troubleshoot it via windows compatibility I believe I bricked the game as all my gold fish are gone, there's only 1 mermaid I can chose from and all game modes other than cruise are gone... Redownloading it doesn't fix this either...
Hi, I had the same issue with the file error, and was able to solve it by just deleting the README.txt file entirely (remaking it didn't do anything); I've been playing for a bit and nothing seems to be broken.
I didn't try compatibility mode or have your issues there, but if you right click on the .exe you should be able to select Properties, go to the Compatibility tab, and uncheck "Run this program in compatibility mode for... (whatever windows)".
If your progress is still gone after that, I think from trying to troubleshoot the file myself earlier that save data might be stored in hungrymermaidcruise.ini, so if you have a copy of that file from an older version of the game you can try renaming or deleting the .ini with the same name that comes with the new version and pasting the old .ini file into the new game folder. I can't guarantee that'll work either, but I think it would be worth a try if disabling compatibility mode doesn't fix everything already (also, just in case: if after everything you're still missing the other modes, I would make sure you didn't redownload the demo version by accident).
Running the game in compatibility mode and trying to troubleshoot it was what got the game to screw up. Removing the readme file fixed the file error, but even after deleting the ini file and redownloading the game, it still only gives me the cruise option and none of the other game modes and shows only the one mermaid, not even the other's silhouette.
Hi, just as a heads up, I'm able to reset my save by switching out the .ini file right in the normal game folder (the downloaded folder with the .exe) and it generates new .inis there too, so I think it might be reading from that folder right now, at least for me. Not a problem or anything at all, just thought I should let you know!
There is an options.ini in the game folder, and a hungrymermaidcruise.ini in appdata/local for me. Are you saying the hungrymermaidcruise.ini generates in the game folder for you? :o
Do you still have your downloaded folder for the last version of the game? It sounds like it somehow overwrote your save file with a fresh one before when you were in compatibility mode (though I'm not sure why it would do that), so just deleting the new .ini will only make the game create a new fresh one. If you can, you want to take the old .ini from the version of the game you played before and copy/paste it into the new folder to replace or overwrite the new .ini.
Unfortunately, if you don't have an old .ini, you might have to start over, but if the game is working properly you should at least be able to unlock the other modes again through playing.
I just want the game to work. The save file doesn't matter any more. Unless the game is meant to be like how it was half a year ago when it was first released when you first start without even the passive mode it isn't working, which is what I was trying to say when I stated it only gives me cruise, no other game modes, and there's not even silhouette's of the other mermaids.
Windows troubleshooting when I was trying to fix the initial error essentially bricked the game.
btw just wanted to say we’re still waiting patiently! This isn’t a rush post I just want you to know we’re not going anywhere. I donated a bit to the gofundme last month I think it was too.
Thanks!! I've got everything done just testing and balancing! I also want to add in the playable shark mode but I think I'll do that for the next and final update
If you donated I appreciate it immensely 🤩 I'll do my best to finish up development. I've ran into a bit of a snag in making the new skins but they will be finished.
What are you working on and how much for you to do upgrades? How much do you want for the go fund me?
If I did a commission updates, can you do a gulper, medusa, and a deep black dragon fish with the lights, and a flying type like a cormorant Or gannet or pelican girl as a flappy bird cameo or maybe the pelican is a power up and a sea eagle. And a secret goddesszilla that can cook the screen with a breath ray. And maybe gets all sharks to appear when she gets big?
I just finished mermaid 3 and level 2, making the other mermaid, levels, and powers should be quick when I have the time. I'm not going to add anything else as I want to finish development but these are all cool ideas :)
Curious how will levels work, will it be after a certain size reached, certain amount of time, or will they be unlockable/selectable similar to the skins?
First level will be unlocked by eating your first shark (after getting the update) then each level you will complete by eating the shark chasing you :) which unlocks the next level
Reduce size, move/remove quit, restart buttons and score to the corners of the screen as they cover best stuff!😣 A big bellied shark and her face, hard to see/capture some good VORE!😔
Still playing the current version! I love it all still and am really looking forward to the next one! I know it'll be a while before then but I keep checking daily for it.
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Dude, bruh, and BRO. This update is so good that the excitement it gave me perfectly rivaled my reaction to finally receiving Geometry Dash 2.1 all those years ago! The game is half the price it should be now!
I played Shark Hunt before clicking anything else and I’m glad it did, as it made for a great introduction to the new stuff. The difficulty of Shark Hunt right now, I think, is quite steep in 2 or 3 levels. But it arms you up good and proper for shark dodging and racking up your score according to certain patterns. The new skins are beautiful and right now I think they’re even sexier than what was already available. I will forever dub this the Bubble Update. You put them everywhere - even in the shark’s hair, WHAT! It looks great though. Iconic for the game for sure. Pufferfish is awesome but I don’t think anything will ever beat the cajun in my book. Squid has my favorite altered mermaid design; looks more dressy, and I like it more than the eel. That little bit of lore on the background of Exodus was so cool too.
Two things: Whatever happened to the reddening of the skin upon consuming a cajun, and how do you feel about the idea of the mines instantly digesting a small portion of fish upon swallowing them?
Thanks a ton! I'm proud of the work I've done on this game, and extremely grateful for the traffic it got. I'm excited to move onto more projects! For the red belly, I just removed it because I added more skin colors and can't translate it over well.
I decided to check out the new update because I haven't played in a while, but I find it's flat out impossible to get anywhere thanks to the first homing shark. She's way too fast to outmaneuver or even to prepare for. There's nothing signaling that this specific shark can track you, so by the time you realize it, it's already too late. Also the fact that said shark can jump as well I find to be incredibly cheap. Jumping outside the water was one of the few consistent strategies against fast sharks before, and now that there's zero safe areas just feels like there's no risk or reward here, you just get punished for playing the game for more than a minute.
I can't even tell what the rest of the game is like because I can't get past 170 fish before the shark comes in. The one time I DID dodge the shark it somehow broke the game. I hope the balancing update comes soon.
Is this in cruise mode and not the demo? The sharks shouldn't start tracking until a few minutes in and the tracking shouldn't be that much. In shark hunts, the shark automatically gets you after 2 minutes. I'll double check the code!
So I looked it up, and it seems like I somehow downloaded the Demo version by mistake. I downloaded the proper version now so none of this stuff applies now. My bad.
Nice I was worried lol
Game is great, more difficult on android, wish there was an option to mute burps as well and an option to go back to previous versions.
powerups being overwritten ends up being annoying especially when you go very big.
The power ups part is very true, I'm thinking of making it not possible to change your power. Definitely harder on mobile yep, not sure how to help that. As for the burps, would you want there to be an option to just mute all sfx?
No I just want an option to mute the burps with an ingame setting, I noticed the game is hardcoded that if a sound fil is missing, like a burp one, the game crashes, a bandaid fix would be the game to check when you press play if the option to turn off burp sounds is on or off, then to not complicate coding just play dummy files that have no sound, or you could do another bandaid fix where the game checks each timethe burp sound effect plays, but I see this solution explode someone's PC down the line with how many times this check would need to be processed
I wasn't e expecting adjective noun combo to be credited, I thought he just secluded himself to patreon
Also if you want to make the game easier, add in another gameplay mode,
In 4his mode you start off like in cruise but you can purchase upgrades in the shop using fish you ate
Like a luck stat to spawn more golden fish, make a specific upgrade fish more common,
Decrease the damage the mines do,
Fatass, reduce the kickback you receive from obstacles, if you know the game burito bison, you might see how similar the game can be, if you want itto be,
Goldfish sprite is hard to see, if you want to pull of a sick joke just do a clownfish sprite(rip nemo)
I generally have more ideas but I think you already have an ideas guy
Good suggestion, I am currently making it so burps are only played on full gulps, so the sound isn't actually called too often and the game can be redownloaded pretty easily if a file is missing. You did make me realize there are probably too much objects on screen still with all the small fish, so I'm reducing the max count for that. As for the difficulty, the shark hunts will be reduced next update and I will have a predator mode that is basically gambling with gold fish lol. I like the idea of an upgrade mode, would be great for if I made a sequel.
Has it been crashing on your android?
If the mermaid becomes to big it crashes, didn't test it on pc, could be a memory issue
Is this cruise mode? I will reduce the overall size cap
That was a heaven mode, the game went on for a while
After the update, I've noticed the game crashes out on android a lot. Especially in the minefields if you eat a mine while having powerups.
Also could we get an option to toggle the buoyancy/ movement of the character?
That being said, this game is great! Thank you so much for making it and following through on updates.
I'm making the movement easier next update! And I'm looking into the crashing that's unfortunate
The "light" level... Does this even possible to complete??😳 I've tried it like 50x times! It's so difficult to control a large mermaid, which is basically logical, hovewer, upon diving to escape from shark you just bounces off bottom right into her mouth, I'm not even saying about all the other obstacles😔...
I'm going to put up an update soon that makes it easier :)
Also a huge green puddles everywhere, I think they shrink mermaid too fast, so annoying.
Get an eel and dash behind them, lets you eat them smaller I think
Yes, I know about this, its not helping, by that time the screen is in complete chaos, even if you manage to eat the eel, you will immediately eat some other creature, which will ruin the effect.
Love the update, and most of the changes made by the patch. The only thing I don't enjoy is the "boyancy" effect at larger sizes. Moving slower at larger sizes makes sense, but the boyancy makes it impossible to move down after a certain point.
Still great work though!
The bouyancy will be reduced next update :) you can also try using the water surface or the bottom of the water to reverse momentum
The game crashes out of nowhere on android.
It can crush right in the begining as well as in late game.
Dang I thought I fixed that... it runs fine with my debug mode but I will try running the export package on my phone and see what happens.
How many gold fish do you need to grow a mermaid to adult?
I think It's between 100-200
Thank you! :D
how to change skin color?
There is no customization, only unique mermaid selections
yeah that one' i can't selected the mermaid i already unlocked
Remember you need to feed them fish until they are at the center of the screen :)
OK THX U SO MUCH SIRRR
(also can you please lower her buoyant when she's full? it really hard to swim or maybe what about perk stat to upgrade by using golden fish something like better stockpile or have more resist to buoyant)
and what the green hair can do?
She earns you goldfish when you swallow sharks! and yeah next update the buoyancy will be reduced :)
LEZ GOO THX U FOR UPDATE
Loving the update, amazing job!
I think the penalty of being full is slightly too much compared to how frequent sharks appear. Or is it intended that players avoid eating sharks whenever possible?
I am going to tone down the movement penalty for sure lol. It's a bit manageable by reversing momentum using the surface and bottom of the screen but I still want more control
I found a fire glitch
What happens? :o
I think level 5 is still a bit too hard due to the acceleration change, I will change it next update if I still think so by then. I wanted to make fixing the errors a priority!
So glad to see this update! I'm not sure if adding environmental factors to a shark chasing you is a good idea, but I'm willing to try.
It may be my personal feeling (or is it true?), but the shark hunt mode is a bit difficult.
Also, I want to ask, does eating a mine cause the body to shrink?
mines don't affect your size if you eat it, nope :)
So what the strategy for winning at shark hunt? I can beat the first level but can't seem to get big quickly enough to beat the second.
I've tried prioritising small fish for more mass, big fish for points, the gold fish to increase capacity quickly, the special ones as they give more points and seem to grow with you but no strategy that I'm doing seems to work.
For the second level eat eels and use its skill (double tap) to eat the shark from behind
It works. I didn't know that was a thing.
If you do it too close you might dash in front of her and get eaten... probably gonna change that lol
Up to you. I think it's a nice risk reward decision on whether to chance it if you're nearly the right size.
Is there a way to see how many sharks you've eaten, trying to unlock that mermaid
I'm gonna put in a counter next update.. coming soonn
got her, now to feed her a literal crap ton of fish lol
do you plan on adding in an interior game over screen at some point, once you are digested I would love to see a stomach interior with gurgling and muffled burps before trying again.
I'm not much at sound editing but I am considering at least putting in that internal view while the digestion sound continues :)
bit of a late response but that is awesome to hear, I think it would be a great visual break between runs while having the added benefit of being really hot lmao
I really wanted to but I just don't have the assets for that and I want to move on to a new project :/
Thats a shame but I am very interested in anything you work on going forward.
Is your next project going to be Game Maker? I would love to help with development if I could but I only have experience with Godot
Yeah, I have been using gamemaker for a decade now so it's my fav for sure. I have experience in unity and unreal but godot I opened up just one time
... Huh. Every third or fourth shark just matches my movement perfectly and gets me every time. My runs are now incredibly short. What do I need to avoid doing so I don't get the fail state shark anymore?
If you're playing shark hunt 5 or are just at a high level shark, you can move one way while the warning is up then move the other way. If you are on a fresh save file in cruise and it immediately starts happening, you might have the demo copy
Yep the purple hair has better stockpiling, and the brown hair has double ability duration :)
Niice, does eating sharks in shark hunt count, or does it have to be cruise mode?
Any mode counts!
Better Stockpiling?
You can combo more small fish in her mouth to get bigger bonus food :)
You unlock the top mermaid by eating 100 sharks total, and the bottom by beating all the shark hunt levels
I dont get what Im ment to do on Shark Hunt Light?
Try swimming up while her warning is showing, then swimming down when it disappears. That's what I do, along with using the abilities the best you can
Sorry for the very late reply, I managed to do it in the end :) Keep up the great work on this game <3
the last challenge of shark hunt seems ridiculously unfair with the insane homing from the shark
You can trick her by going one direction while the warning is up then going the other direction. I am going to tone it down a bit as well :)
If you use pufferfish ability on heart egg it flings it and then the game bug.
Thanks, I'm going to fix these as soon as I can :)
How do I get Shark Hunt?
Eat a shark! :)
Thank you! :D
Really love the new updates!
Is it just me, or does the game not recognize how many goldfish you've swallowed? Mine always stays at zero?
In my opinion the fish spawn rate later in the run gets a little crazy.
I'll look into that bug! And yeah I am probably going to adjust the crazy rates lol
Is your goldfish counter still zero? Not finding anything as to how this could happen besides maybe your game isn't saving properly
This happens on light and reverts your progress back to promise.
Thanks!!
It keeps shutting off on its own.
Ya I ran into this once while using the squids power in shark hunt mode,
EDIT: and I'd just like to say thank you, the amount of support you've given this game is phenomenal.
Thanks for letting me know! I'll get to these bugs when I can
Love this update! Lots of fun to see how far this game has come from the first edition to now. If I had one small change to make, maybe an item that stops sharks from spawning for like 10 seconds, like a dolphin edible or something. Haven't gotten too far into the shark hunt so I can't speak for any problems there, but all in all Love this!
I like that idea! And thanks a ton it's been fun developing this. I do wish I did some more testing before I published the update but I was too excited to put it up lol.
The mobile version doesn't seem to work, says the .apk conflicts with a different package
Thanks and sorry for the bug, I'll get to it as soon as I can
Awesome update, but that Shark Hunt level 'Light' is... Insane. The screen is so crowded and the shark is enormous, it's frequently impossible to avoid her as obstacles bounce you into her path and she seems to track your movements while in motion rather than just swimming in straight lines. last time I got about 30seconds into the level and it crashed. Maybe tone down the amount of stuff on-screen and make the shark slightly smaller/reduce obstacles?
EDIT: And the crash reverted my progress on Shark Hunt back to the previous stage so now I have to complete Promise again.
Yeah, I just got that crash too. It also reverted my progress...
Edit: sort of fix I found. Once you get to the final level, play a few rounds of cruse or feast mode. Even if you get the crash again it won't delete your progress, and given enough time you should be able to beat it.
'Given enough time' maybe, but I should be able to beat it by skill, not waiting for RNGesus to stop dicking me lol
Yeah I am gonna reduce the spawns, especially if it's crashing. At high levels, sharks will match your vertical speed or even move slightly up and down during a dash. Once you run out of time in a shark hunt she is unavoidable. Thanks for the feedback!
She's unavoidable seemingly at random, tracking my vertical movement faster than I can ascend/descend. I've been eaten with no way to escape in the first 20 seconds of Light over a dozen times. The lowest I've gotten the timer is 1:03. Sometimes she goes for squid ability decoys, sometimes she ignores them and goes straight for me. I don't mind difficulty but atm there's no predictable pattern or room for maneuver. You can't even reliably use the squid ability because there's so many eels and spicy fish around that you are too big to avoid while also avoiding the shark/mines/toxic waste/getting bounced around by sponges. I've played the level probably 50+ times now and I don't see how anyone can beat it without insane luck.
Also, are bigger bellies actually working? i got over 100,000 points in cruise and was so big sharks had completely stopped spawning, but the mermaid's belly seems to cap out at the same size it always did in previous versions.
Thanks for the feedback, I'm going to do some adjustments for sure :)
Just re uploaded files, Hoping things are good now. Let me know please :o
I've tried "Sanctuary" about a dozen times, no shot this can be beaten. Even tried using CE to fudge scoring and still no dice. Some other prereq to beating it?
If you dash into the shark with the eel power when you are just a little smaller than it you can swallow her. I'll test it out some more, might end up making the levels easier
Try and get big-ish and then use the eel power to eat the shark from behind, it worked for me hope it helps :3
Where's the download?
Some people are having errors running it so I took it down, gonna look at it real quick
Oh okay!
So, game keeps saying it was not designed to run on windows or there was an error, preventing me from playing in full screen which offsets the buttons to the point that I cannot play one of the later shark hunt levels. Not sure why this is happening but thought it was important to let you know.
In attempting to troubleshoot it via windows compatibility I believe I bricked the game as all my gold fish are gone, there's only 1 mermaid I can chose from and all game modes other than cruise are gone... Redownloading it doesn't fix this either...
Hi, I had the same issue with the file error, and was able to solve it by just deleting the README.txt file entirely (remaking it didn't do anything); I've been playing for a bit and nothing seems to be broken.
I didn't try compatibility mode or have your issues there, but if you right click on the .exe you should be able to select Properties, go to the Compatibility tab, and uncheck "Run this program in compatibility mode for... (whatever windows)".
If your progress is still gone after that, I think from trying to troubleshoot the file myself earlier that save data might be stored in hungrymermaidcruise.ini, so if you have a copy of that file from an older version of the game you can try renaming or deleting the .ini with the same name that comes with the new version and pasting the old .ini file into the new game folder. I can't guarantee that'll work either, but I think it would be worth a try if disabling compatibility mode doesn't fix everything already (also, just in case: if after everything you're still missing the other modes, I would make sure you didn't redownload the demo version by accident).
Running the game in compatibility mode and trying to troubleshoot it was what got the game to screw up. Removing the readme file fixed the file error, but even after deleting the ini file and redownloading the game, it still only gives me the cruise option and none of the other game modes and shows only the one mermaid, not even the other's silhouette.
The .ini file in roaming/local is what holds your save data, if that's the file you mean
Hi, just as a heads up, I'm able to reset my save by switching out the .ini file right in the normal game folder (the downloaded folder with the .exe) and it generates new .inis there too, so I think it might be reading from that folder right now, at least for me. Not a problem or anything at all, just thought I should let you know!
There is an options.ini in the game folder, and a hungrymermaidcruise.ini in appdata/local for me. Are you saying the hungrymermaidcruise.ini generates in the game folder for you? :o
Do you still have your downloaded folder for the last version of the game? It sounds like it somehow overwrote your save file with a fresh one before when you were in compatibility mode (though I'm not sure why it would do that), so just deleting the new .ini will only make the game create a new fresh one. If you can, you want to take the old .ini from the version of the game you played before and copy/paste it into the new folder to replace or overwrite the new .ini.
Unfortunately, if you don't have an old .ini, you might have to start over, but if the game is working properly you should at least be able to unlock the other modes again through playing.
I just want the game to work. The save file doesn't matter any more. Unless the game is meant to be like how it was half a year ago when it was first released when you first start without even the passive mode it isn't working, which is what I was trying to say when I stated it only gives me cruise, no other game modes, and there's not even silhouette's of the other mermaids.
Windows troubleshooting when I was trying to fix the initial error essentially bricked the game.
When you start fresh, all that is available is Cruise and the mermaid screen. No silhouettes show until you gain progress towards them
If it's any consolation, it's much easier to get goldfish in the new version after increasing your multiplier from doing shark hunt levels
Wow I'll take a look at this when I can :((
There is currently a bug which prevents you from swallowing the shark sometimes. I will get to it when I can :)
Awesome to see an much anticipated update, good work m8 :)
btw just wanted to say we’re still waiting patiently! This isn’t a rush post I just want you to know we’re not going anywhere. I donated a bit to the gofundme last month I think it was too.
Thanks!! I've got everything done just testing and balancing! I also want to add in the playable shark mode but I think I'll do that for the next and final update
Shark Mode?!
This release has my hyped and damn I'd be lying if I'm already excited for the next one! :D
Go to the go fund me maybe?
If you donated I appreciate it immensely 🤩 I'll do my best to finish up development. I've ran into a bit of a snag in making the new skins but they will be finished.
What are you working on and how much for you to do upgrades? How much do you want for the go fund me?
If I did a commission updates, can you do a gulper, medusa, and a deep black dragon fish with the lights, and a flying type like a cormorant Or gannet or pelican girl as a flappy bird cameo or maybe the pelican is a power up and a sea eagle. And a secret goddesszilla that can cook the screen with a breath ray. And maybe gets all sharks to appear when she gets big?
Bro spoiled Hungry Mermaid Cruise 4
I just finished mermaid 3 and level 2, making the other mermaid, levels, and powers should be quick when I have the time. I'm not going to add anything else as I want to finish development but these are all cool ideas :)
Curious how will levels work, will it be after a certain size reached, certain amount of time, or will they be unlockable/selectable similar to the skins?
First level will be unlocked by eating your first shark (after getting the update) then each level you will complete by eating the shark chasing you :) which unlocks the next level
The month ends, no updates.
It's a mess, comrades. (. ❛ ᴗ ❛.)
However long it takes We will wait patiently.
Hell yah.
I'm sorry for the delay, life stuff. I'll have an update soon, started working on it again :)
Don't worry about it m8, we'll wait patiently. :)
it’s all g! All the time you need.
Bigger belly for mermaid in next update
Bigger bellies is coming.. it is looking good
Bigger bellies for the shark too!😛
Reduce size, move/remove quit, restart buttons and score to the corners of the screen as they cover best stuff!😣 A big bellied shark and her face, hard to see/capture some good VORE!😔
I'll move the buttons, good idea :)
Yeah, to the edges, just like a pause button🙂 And the score too please, it covers shark's pretty face when she comes up😅🙏
200 glowie fishies, let’s gooo! (\^o^/) Mermaid’s twins are eating GOOD next update
Still playing the current version! I love it all still and am really looking forward to the next one! I know it'll be a while before then but I keep checking daily for it.
Thanks I'm glad people still play this! I do occasionally as well. Still shooting to update this month :)