Dive: Quest For Treasures

My entry for LibGDX Jam 25 (june 2023). An underwater game about collecting treasures, taking them to the surface while avoiding all kind of underwater dangers.

How to play:

• Collect treasures from bottom of the sea.
• Beware of underwater dangers.
• Take each treasure to extraction area.
• You can only carry one treasure at a time.

Controls:

• Keyboard: Arrow keys + SPACE or Z
• Mouse: you can play with mouse, though it's not the best experience.
• Touchpad: it should work, but it's not the best experience.
• Gamepad support: you can use either left analog stick or digital DPAD + button A.

About the game:

• This is my first project written in Java and my first game using LibGDX.
  
• There are 20 levels with different arrange of enemies. 
• The graphics were drawn using PICO-8. The result is a single 128x128 spritesheet including all the sprites, so it needed some upscaling and adding outlines to improve quality.
• There's an HTML version which you can play online. It has got a few graphic bugs, and takes a long time to load.
• There's also a Java version (.jar) which you can download and run on Windows, Linux, iOS, as long as you've got Java installed. This is the recommended version.
• There's information about highscore and highest level reached in main menu.
• Press S to toggle sound on/off.

Hint: pressing F9 activates cheat mode which allows skipping a level. Once cheat mode is activated, scores are lost and there's no highscore saving.