Hungry Mermaid Cruise

Fantastic game! Are you still planning on adding different shark girls? I know Adjectivenouncombo did all the visual assets and I don't know how comfortable you are adding your own, but I'd definitely recommend more sounds! It would be great to have sounds for the full digestion sequence after the mermaid gets eaten, maybe a scream from on her, a burp from the shark...

Very fun and addicting!  I think a lot of people are already suggesting gameplay mechanics and I think that's great. 

I like the burp sound effect but it would be fun to see a cute animation of her burping after eating a powerup--maybe she can put a hand on her chest and bubbles come out of her mouth with a satisfied expression.  The stronger the power up the bigger the burp?  Or maybe the larger she is the larger the burp is so they start small and cute and then get big and longer as you play.  Just some fun ideas for the art!

The game is awesome, please add modifiers so we can still win nothing feels better than eating the sharks! I know she becomes more buoyant when she eats but does she slow down the more she eats and does she need time to digest?

Is there a size where you become uneatable? I reached 3700 and still can get devoured.

hey just downloaded your game if you want an extra bit of money to develop anything let me know god the game is addictive!!! can you prehaps make different playable species of mermaids more fish and bosses maybe ? 

Great game, really like the art.

The whirlpools have already been commented on, but I also wanted to add that maybe only the fish/eggs should be able to overlap. Like nothing would spawn over a whirlpool, including other whirlpools.

Also wanted to suggest that you put a slight hue or saturation shift on the different sizes of things to better differentiate. I am having trouble telling what size shark I am dealing with, and as such which ones I can eat.

The cyclones are especially cruel 😔 I keep getting stuck in a vertical row of them. Sometimes heart eggs spawn inside the cyclones & it's impossible to get them.
Are Golden fish suppose to be very rare? I swear I see heart eggs way more, like it's an 8/1 ratio. Would also be nice if the golden fish didn't spawn at the bottom edge, as they're almost guaranteed to escape.
Unintended exploit, potential mechanic, but if you hold both the left & right mouse button, you sinker down exceedingly faster when going forwards and/or backwards.

Hi, are the previous versions available as well?

i think you should add something like menu/charcther list/cosmetic

also heart egg/golden fish should use different way to get so we can eat it while chewing

will i get future update if i pay it today?

I just bought the full version and its awesome! Keep up the good work. Cant wait for the future updates 🤟

Just tried the full version and it's just a blast, a very fun score attack game akin to early 2010's mobile games, and I'm super satisfied with that purchase! I do see that there are some plans to update it, and I see that the tornado is going to be adjusted, which was really my only issue with it so far, however since updates are on the table, I figured I'd drop some ideas and features I'd absolutely love to see: 

1. Make the Shark Woman (or enemy) Burp after eating you - She has a really great design and I like her quite a lot, to be honest with you most of the changes I would love to see are based around her. Though I noticed there is a great burp sound in the game already after getting those pink pearls, I thought it would be great to have her burp after eating you, even using that same sound if you wish as it is a good pick.

2. Playable Shark Woman - Looking at how her animations work and how her belly grows smaller after she eats you, I think she would be a great playable character as well. There are a few ideas that could be cool with this, such as her being an unlockable, or just unlocked off the start. If she were to be playable though, you could have the Mermaid as the threat instead, as a sort of role reversal, giving her the same treatment (Why I said "Or Enemy" on #1). I think below you mention other game modes being a possibility, this could be one if you wanted, I think it would be awesome to see her playable as well. 

3. Unlockable or Available Cosmetics - one thing that this game would benefit greatly from is a choice of skins and possibly backgrounds, as a lot of earlier mobile games flourished because of these. I think having a few different skins in the game to choose from would spice things up a bit, and keep players striving for new high scores, as they would earn new skins based on the higher score they got. This could range from character skins and recolors, to even new Mermaids or even the Shark Woman as previously mentioned (Since this game is NSFW marked, the highest score should give like a nude skin or something, I think that could really get people wanting to play more), to music choices as I did hear multiple tracks in there, and maybe even new stage backgrounds, as I think that could look cool. These changes don't have to be too crazy, but I still think having a handful of these could do well for the game.

Overall none of these changes would be required to make this game great, as I think it's an extremely polished and clean experience that I'll definitely be enjoying for a long while, and I just wanted to say thank you for that. It would be really cool to see these changes, but they are absolutely not required, and are just there to maybe give some inspiration as to what I think could be cool to see. Thanks again for making this!

Had a lot of fun with this game, though I am quite awful at it. Was wondering though if at larger sizes, there would be the possibilities of devouring maybe swimmers or even boats in later installments!

Awesome game! Was playing non-stop for 3 hours :D

Feedback

1. Tornado - very awkward hitbox, also 2 unlucky tornados could trap you, especially then you become big. Don't mix them with sharks or limit to 1 on screen or something

2. Unpredictable shark sizes. In first I assumed once I ate one, I will eat them all, but next shark was bigger. Not a fan, but ok. In other runs I was able to outpaced their size, and saw smaller one after bigger one, a bit strange. Personally, I think shark size can be locked, but with different enemies after bigger sizes

Bugs & QoL

1. Easy to miss bonus if other edible unit nearby, because of "chew cooldown"

2. Golden fish could use more distinct graphics. At least bigger glow?

3. Sharks spawning while bonus on screen at bigger sizes

4. Shark can instakill you, if you are on the edge of the screen

5. Left - Right movement feels janky. Sometime one jump will bring you to the left edge, sometime tornado pushes you to right edge. Maybe even lock horizontal axis.

If you want to improve gameplay and feel, I can also recommend to look how similar games do this stuff. For example jetpack joyride.

Love you work!

its a very cute game but i am godawful at it ahah. very hard for me to avoid those sharks after a certain point. would greatly benefit from an easy mode or a passive shark mode if thats possible. i wanted to get the mermaid huge but i was always cut short because of a stray whirlpool or being too close to a shark spawn point. ended up being more frustrated than turned on ahah

Will this game ever be free? (I've only played the demo). This game looks great so far 👍

I wish there would be more predators and a score system!
Hope you guys will keep working on this project^^

I'm sure I'm just being really dumb, but can you tell me how to run the game? Is there a specific software I'm meant to run it through?

I like the new update, but i think the whirlpools can be unfair since you can get stuck in them or they for walls that trap you with the sharks. Maybe you can do than when you bounce once the whirlpools disappear and/or the bigger you are the less it bounce you (maybe if you are bigger enough you eat it and became an upgrade that vacuum all the screen, maybe with smaller variants). Keep the good work.

are sharks meant to auto-kill you in the demo? Fuckers teleport at you XD

is there a requirement for the golden fish to spawn? Found sometimes they don’t spawn at all and sometimes they spawn frequently and early… 

ended up getting to 25k+ after leaving it on.  At like 2k I couldn't really move, and sharks just auto-devoured. Would be cool to have a super shark that's always bigger after a certain size. Also, character starts to rotate once you get big enough and can't quite fit in the water due to the weight? 

So after playing the paid version, I have to say this is a pretty good starting point. It was a little frustrating to control at first, but once I realized you're supposed to move in an arc like a dolphin, it became a lot easier. I was able to reach up to 300 so far.

One thing I would suggest is that once the sharks reach the range where they become edible, maybe have the ones that can be eaten approach the player from the opposite side of the screen? While the current situation does allow for a bit of a risk/reward dynamic, it's a bit awkward to gauge whether to avoid them when you have so little time to react, so it usually ends up with the sharks being eaten by accident. It would also make things more consistent, with anything on the left side being dangerous while the right side being food.

I like this game quite a lot, it’s strangely addictive. Will agree that at big sizes it’s extremely hard to move. 

Would love to see additional bars to display capacity and size as a number. 

Also, do the sharks grow over time? I swear some of them were huge when I hit around 150 score wise. 

The concept is good, but i the controls are hard to control and gets harder the bigger you get. Also it would be nice if the shark warning appear in the same high as the shark will emerge. But a great start