Deep One Derby
The Deep rises! You need to drop dynamite on the aquatic Deep Ones until your fellow investigators can finish the chant to banish Father Dagon back to his eternal slumber. If all of your companions have been taken, it's Game Over!
Controls:
Use the mouse. Left click = drop. It will explode when it reaches the depth you clicked. You can hold 5 sticks of dynamite; reload at the box of explosives as you run out.Tips:
- Your goal isn't to kill Deep Ones (they are infinite and there are no points) but to protect your fellow Investigators until the time runs out. If a Deep One is no threat, you don't need to kill it.
- Once an investigator is grabbed, they're gone. You cannot save them. Focus on the few that remain.
Known Bugs:
- If you click ABOVE yourself the dynamite won't explode, it'll just fall off the screen.
- Deep Ones will get distracted and attack targets that no longer exist. I considered fixing this, but until the difficulty curve is smoothed out it makes the game much harder.
DevLog
Deep One Derby was created for the 2022 Decon Recon jam, a game jam in which participants deconstruct the elements of a classic video game and reconstruct it into something new. When the jam began, participants were presented with a classic retrogame and were given a breakdown of its salient elements. Over the course of the following week they incorporated those elements into a new game.The Jam's focal game was Missile Command.