In a Barrel

(Made from scratch in 72 hours for Ludum Dare #48.)

NOTE: In the web build only, the distortion applies to the overlay camera instead of just the viewport, which is somewhat sickening. Sorry! I'll fix it someday when I have time.

The depths call to you! Can you collect a 10/10 photo of each type of creature?

In a Barrel is a relaxing photography game about taking pictures of cool sea dwellers.

How to play

Your goal is to get a 10/10 photo of each of the 6 types of creatures. You can find each pair in a different layer of the ocean. Photos are scored based on framing and creature presence.

Use your mouse to look around and W/S to move forward/back.

• Press Q to toggle your Camera!
• Once your camera is open, click to take a photo.
• Press E to toggle your Creature Collection
• Press left/right or a/d or click the arrows to scroll through your Collection.

Made in 72 hours from scratch for Ludum Dare 48 for the theme "Deeper and Deeper".

Retrospective:

Our goal for this one was to focus on simple gameplay and asset creation and we're proud of the end result. We still spent too much time building, discussing, and tuning a photo scoring system which, while interesting, didn't end up serving the game at all. We should've just let the player decide which photo is best and that's a good lesson for creative games like this.

Tools:

• Unity 2020
• Krita
• FL Studio
• Blender 2.8
• Shapes
• DOTween
• OdinInspector

Credits:

Concept/Design/Balance - Logan Stolmaker, and Davide Spiert

Art/Visuals/Antimation - Davide Spiert

Sound - Mark Pressler

Programming - Logan Stolmaker

Release Notes

1.01 (5/1/2021)

• All creatures should now be collectible

1.1 (6/6/2021)

• Players should no longer get stuck at the bounds of the world
• Mouselook handling is now much improved and should no longer get stuck
• Improved water VFX: light rays, caustics, fog tweaks, water surface
• Improved LoD and view distance configurations
• Fixed eel scoring hitbox
• A few big performance optimizations