News: Dive

January 25, 2008, 01:06 AM

by brandon, via Jiji -
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Speaking of Jiji, he released (some time ago) a little game called Dive for the Gamma 256 competition. That's the same competition Passage was in (you can see all the entries here). Anyway, Dive is a cute little game where you repel aggressive animals and communicate with friendly ones via sonar, while diving to the bottom of the ocean floor to find something neat. Friendly animals give you air. Don't ask me how!! He made it for both Windows and OSX, and it's 1.3 megs, so you've no excuses.

As Jiji explains: "In order to comply with the competition's rules, it's very short - about five minutes - and its native resolution is 36x64. It will scale to a more visible size for you, of course. Supports Xbox 360 wired controllers. Be sure to have sound on. Z on the keyboard or A on the Xbox 360 pad will activate a sonar pulse. Use this to interact with both friendly and unfriendly creatures."