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You play as the Depth Scaphanger, sent deep beneath the surface to mine some precious treasures.... but down there, the fauna is hostile, to say the least.

Death is a matter of minutes.

Alone with the whole mining platform, and your own comparatively smaller (but O mightier) drill, dodge anglerfishes and muray eels, build around, and claim the highest score among the depth-divers... Don't show yourself too talented though, some say there are ancient monsters sleeping down there!

This is an exigent tryhard scoring game. Expect to die a lot, and get better each time!

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Controls

- Move using [WASD/ZQSD/arrows]
- Aim with the mouse (no need to click, the drill is auto-mining)
- [Click/F/E] to build a block

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Help

Fetch treasures to gain score. Your score is displayed on the first counter on the mining platform, your building materials are on the second, and your current depth is on third.

Muray eels will rush on you if you break their nest, be ready to dodge! Anglerfishes will happily corner you in the cliff, don't forget to spend some time in the open to ensure safety. Finally, the bombs... well, just don't hug them.

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About the game

The aesthetics are inspired by my own thalassophobia, hoping to make you feel a bit of it 😘

Made in 48h, alone and from scratch, for the 57th Ludum Dare. The theme was "Depths".

Tools used: Clickteam Fusion 2.5+, Aseprite, BFXR, Ableton Live, Audacity ...

Made entirely live on my Twitch.tv channel, devlog incoming!

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"Tiny fixes" version

Post-deadline tiny update : Fixed the anglerfish getting stuck beneath the screen and sometime killing you unfairly