Ultimate Walrus

Kersploosh! by UltimateWalrus An extremely 3D game. A cube of splooshy water. Fight for your life!!

An extremely 3D game. A cube of splooshy water. Fight for your life!!

Kersploosh! is now finished! and it's free. go help populate the online scoreboards!
#indiegames #freeware #arcade #scoreattack #physics #masocore
ultimatewalrus.itch.io/kersploosh

Kersploosh! by UltimateWalrus An extremely 3D game. A cube of splooshy water. Fight for your life!!

the game is done!! Kersploosh! is now a real game.
ultimatewalrus.itch.io/kersploosh

thanks!

uhh so i just discovered the compute shader that handles the water is completely unstable on my friend's computer... not good... i'm probably gonna rewrite this completely to go on the CPU. no other choice. wouldn't be a gamejam without at least one curveball thrown at you

rail combo mechanics inspired by HYPER DEMON!

adding some actual game mechanics! you can absorb the marbles to get more power (note: this is heavily inspired by HYPER DEMON's mechanics, see more in next video)

more sound! i used @kyuubi777777777.bsky.social 's BandMod VST for the enemy death sound (the FM thrumming at the end)

added an array of splash sounds! (i bought them from ZapSplat then sorted them into small, med, big splashes pitched them around etc). splashes are general purpose now, so i should get SFX and particles smoothly scaled to however i decide to perturb the water surface :)

got lowpass working in Godot's audio bus!! was actually pretty easy. just listen to this

the UI now makes it clearer where things are in 3D space. (this is something i've iterated on in previous games Vertico / Vertabyss)

added splash particles!

enemies and player now perturb the water surface

killable enemy! check out the ripple physics

destroyable weakpoint

added ambient bubbles. it looks cool when you swim up a tower of water...

bubbles!! when i got them looking right i was so giddy i started giggling

figured out a shader for enemy bodies. it changes color depending on relative depth

been having to unexpectedly take care of a sick cat, but i'm back on this!
i got compute shaders handling the water surface now -- 128x128 nodes are iterated 32 times per frame to propagate the waves!

adding player movement/torpedoes! they're still a little glitchy, plus i think the water reflections / sky looked better before...

sand

finished light dappling. it's a prebaked 3D texture, but it repeats seamlessly in x, y, and time

improved light dappling

my first pass at light dappling. the shader knows where the water surface is and doesn't dapple light above it

oil drops now float to the top, look cool.
i'm implementing player logic i've iterated on in two previous game jams for an isometric 5DOF shooter. can't reuse the code though, different engines
ultimatewalrus.com#vertabyss

by the way the game will probably be called "Kersplash!" probably should have put that first but oh well.

here is a bug where i forgot to zero my mouse mickeys. classic...

feeling pretty good about this one! i'll be posting my devlog here
bsky.app/profile/ulti...

wrote my own oil shader. i'm proud of it!

ditched my old water shader in favor of a modded version of the excellent shader from marcelb which allows both SSR and transparency at the same time by manually re-implementing SSR
github.com/marcelb/Godo...

reused some shader code from BIGBOMB

initial water surface done via feeding an array into a shader